The sanctions heaped on Moscow in the wake of the West s orchestrated proxy war in Ukraine have morphed into repression of the individual freedoms of innocent Russians traveling to the EU.
On August 31, in coordination with the Republic of Korea (South Korea) and Japan, the US Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctioned two individuals.
Instead of imposing harsher sanctions after the events of 2014 [start of Russia's hybrid war in the eastern part of Ukraine and the annexation of Crimea - ed.], Western companies helped Russia master gas liquefaction technologies and bring production to a new level.