John Cornyn and K have found the weak point of Russia - banking assets in the USA
Economically advanced figures from the US Senate set out to arrange an artificial financial crisis in Russia. The harsh four "sanctioners" of 13 September appealed to the US Treasury with a call to block the access of some large Russian banks to the American financial system. We are talking about VTB, VEB and Gazprombank. Senators believe that these banks do business with the bloody Syrian regime, including receiving money for the C-300 air defense system. And at VTB, a chemical tyrant, the poisoner of his own people, Asad, generally keeps his savings for a rainy day.
“According to numerous reports, such banks as VTB, VEB and Gazprombank are, as usual, doing business with Syria, repeatedly undermining the sanctions imposed by the United States, the European Union and the United Nations. Such activities, it was reported, include assisting Vnesheconombank in making payments for C-300 rocket systems, storing President Asad’s personal assets in VTB, payments from Gazprombank for oil, lead senators "Days. Ru" with reference to the RIA "News».
A letter addressed to Jacob Lew was signed by Democratic Senators Richard Blumenthal, Gene Shaheen and Republicans John Cornyn and Kelly Ayotte.
These people believe that thanks to the assistance of Russian banks, the Syrian authorities are purchasing weapon and wage a civil war. In this regard, the letter says: "We believe that these institutions are involved in the ongoing brutal conflict in Syria and should be denied access to the American financial system."
The four have already developed a proposal: the US Treasury Department should freeze the assets of Russian banks in the United States, ban their activities on American territory and impose restrictions on foreign travel of employees.
In short, a mixture of financial sanctions with the "Magnitsky list."
Dni.ru also indicates that VTB has already denied senators ’claims about Bashar al-Assad’s personal accounts. The press service of the bank said: “The statements of four US senators are the dissemination of completely unreliable information. In the VTB group there are no accounts of the leadership of Syria. We regard the words of the senators as a provocative attempt to mislead the US public. ”
Reviewer Maxim Makarychev ("Russian newspaper") speaks of the senators' letter as an extremely tough "in tone". The correspondent also indicates that the Ministry of Finance of the United States did not comment on this appeal of the legislators.
Senator Blumenthal participated in a discussion on US policy toward Syria and Iran at the bipartisan policy center in Washington. His words are quoted by the Politico newspaper:
Andrey Polunin ("Free press") interviewed experts on the subject of sanctions against Russian banks. Politician and economist Yury Boldyrev said the following:
The answer is simple, the expert believes. When the United States is hitting the Russian financial system, Moscow is unequivocally warned that in the framework of the dollar system, within the Central Bank of the Russian Federation, dependent on the dollar, Russia cannot gain sovereignty. If you gain sovereignty, explains the economist, so
Moreover, the American strike will be the most severe, because VTB, VEB and Gazprombank, comrade Boldyrev notes, operate mainly with currency, and all dollar operations pass through settlement centers in the United States. VTB and VEB are “pieces of the state, albeit formally separated from it. To freeze their assets is almost the same thing as to freeze the assets of the Central Bank of Russia. ” As the next step, the expert says, Americans could arrest all the property of the Russian Federation in the United States. Between these two steps is not such a big distance, the analyst believes.
At the same time, Boldyrev does not think that the Americans will freeze Russian bank assets in the near future. However, the very senatorial warning -
Nikita Krichevsky, a professor and chief researcher at the Institute of Economics of the Russian Academy of Sciences, gave a “more moderate” opinion to the Free Press:
However, Comrade Krichevsky also points out: American senators are thus beating on Russia, because two of the three banks are state banks. Therefore, the threat of sanctions is an additional tool of pressure on Russia on the Syrian issue.
Olga Gritsenko ("Sight") recalls that earlier in the media more than once wrote about the cooperation of Russian state banks with Damascus. For example, last year, the Financial Times reported: “While Western banks stopped their ties with Syria, Russian financial institutions - VTB, Vnesheconombank, and Gazprombank — work with it in the usual way.” And in May 2013 of the year in the Western press passed the information that Syria paid the cost of six C-300 complexes through VTB. Finally, quite recently, Reuters claimed that in recent months Damascus had transferred almost 1 billion to Moscow for four C-300 and 550 million for Moscow for 36 Yak-130 combat aircraft.
The head of the Center for Analysis of the World Arms Trade, Igor Korotchenko, told the newspaper Vzglyad:
According to Korotchenko, the American initiative is another “recurrence of the thinking of the times of the Cold War”. According to him, the introduction of sanctions against Russia can be regarded as arbitrariness: “This will be an unfriendly decision, and we, in turn, will have the right to retaliate, for example, to prohibit senators from entering Russia. We must respond to such tricks. In addition, the listed banks are respected in the international community, and international banks and financiers will negatively react to the initiative of US senators. ”
It is strange, of course, to believe, let us add on our own that the American senators are rushing to Russia or are frightened by such a terrible measure as the ban on visiting Moscow. On the other hand, it is too early to speak of retaliatory measures: it is unlikely that the petition, signed by just four senators, would later become valid.
Nevertheless, this document should be attached to the thick bundle of American papers that has accumulated on the so-called Syrian issue and which serves a single case, jointly promoted by the monarchies of the Persian Gulf, official Washington and the military-industrial complex circles behind congressmen: remove from power in Damascus, Assad and put there on the throne of some petty vassal from the "opposition", loyal to the White House and the Saudis from Qatar to the last pimple.
The petition of senators signals not only Russia and Syria, but the entire world community: Washington will never back down on the idea of overthrowing Assad.
Meanwhile, official Damascus agrees to destroy its own chemical weapons. Already calculated the time and cost of such an operation.
The transfer of chemical weapons in Syria under international control will cost about 1 billion dollars and take about a year. This was said by Bashar Asad in an interview with Fox News, reports "Sight".
Syrian President explained: "This is a very difficult operation, it requires a lot of money, about 1 billion (dollars), and about a year - maybe less, maybe more." He added: "We are ready to transfer (chemical weapons) to any country that is ready to receive it."
Appeared in the press and the information that help Damascus in the export and destruction of chemical weapons will, in addition to UN experts, the military from several countries, including Russia.
How to write Elena Chernenko and Ivan Safronov (Kommersant), referring to an unnamed source in the General Staff of the Russian Federation, consultations are underway in the defense ministry “on the quantitative composition of the contingent”, which may be sent to Syria. The group is likely to include specialists from the radiation, chemical and biological defense forces of the RF Armed Forces. It is possible that a special forces brigade will be sent to the site of the operation.
It is not known how many servicemen Russia will send to Syria. “Different options are being considered. The exact number and composition of the contingent will depend on how many soldiers our foreign partners will provide for this mission, ”an anonymous source told Kommersant. He added that the total number of participants from all countries can be up to 10 thousand people.
Thus, while Russia and Syria implement their commitments to destroy chemical weapons, contributing to further peace negotiations there, some US senators seek to restore peace during the Cold War and show that America is in favor of democracy and disarmament, and Russia supports the bloodthirsty Syrian tyrant-poisoner, supplying him with weapons from under the floors.
In conclusion, the material is a few lines about Senator John Kornin, one of the signatories of the petition against Russian banks.
This man has consistently harmed Russia. At the end of last year, he acted as the author of an initiative to amend the US defense budget, which prohibits the Pentagon from making deals with Rosoboronexport. Cornyn said that Washington should abandon purchases from Russia: after all, it supports the Syrian authorities.
In 2012, Kornin did not succeed, although the Senate supported the amendment. The Senators were objected to the Pentagon, who considered that the choice of the Mi-17 was the best for the AF of Afghanistan.
However, John did not leave attempts. Not by hook or by crook ...
As reported by 18 on September 2013. correspondent ITAR-TASS Dmitry Kirsanov, a group of members of the US Congress in writing asked the US Attorney General, Attorney General Eric Holder to connect to the investigation of the circumstances of the Pentagon's purchase of Mi-17 helicopters for Afghanistan. The text of the letter, dated 16 September, was made public by John Cornin.
Legislators ask Mr. Holder to study information about possible abuse of power by the former and current management in charge of the non-standard helicopter program aviation US Army, which also includes the Mi-17 for the Afghan Armed Forces. Lawmakers insist that Holder "use all available resources, including the Federal Bureau of Investigation." Congressmen crave a “criminal investigation into the matter.” The petition was signed by 9 senators, including Kornin, and 23 members of the House of Representatives. The US Department of Justice has already confirmed that they are studying the letter.
Well, let us add from ourselves, there is every reason to assert that John Cornyn and K will not leave their anti-Russian and anti-Syrian inclinations ...
“According to numerous reports, such banks as VTB, VEB and Gazprombank are, as usual, doing business with Syria, repeatedly undermining the sanctions imposed by the United States, the European Union and the United Nations. Such activities, it was reported, include assisting Vnesheconombank in making payments for C-300 rocket systems, storing President Asad’s personal assets in VTB, payments from Gazprombank for oil, lead senators "Days. Ru" with reference to the RIA "News».
A letter addressed to Jacob Lew was signed by Democratic Senators Richard Blumenthal, Gene Shaheen and Republicans John Cornyn and Kelly Ayotte.
These people believe that thanks to the assistance of Russian banks, the Syrian authorities are purchasing weapon and wage a civil war. In this regard, the letter says: "We believe that these institutions are involved in the ongoing brutal conflict in Syria and should be denied access to the American financial system."
The four have already developed a proposal: the US Treasury Department should freeze the assets of Russian banks in the United States, ban their activities on American territory and impose restrictions on foreign travel of employees.
In short, a mixture of financial sanctions with the "Magnitsky list."
Dni.ru also indicates that VTB has already denied senators ’claims about Bashar al-Assad’s personal accounts. The press service of the bank said: “The statements of four US senators are the dissemination of completely unreliable information. In the VTB group there are no accounts of the leadership of Syria. We regard the words of the senators as a provocative attempt to mislead the US public. ”
Reviewer Maxim Makarychev ("Russian newspaper") speaks of the senators' letter as an extremely tough "in tone". The correspondent also indicates that the Ministry of Finance of the United States did not comment on this appeal of the legislators.
Senator Blumenthal participated in a discussion on US policy toward Syria and Iran at the bipartisan policy center in Washington. His words are quoted by the Politico newspaper:
“The Syrians could not conduct this war without financing from Russia. We can freeze their assets. We can stop them from doing business in the United States, prevent their employees from entering the territory of (our country), which, in fact, can impose a very heavy financial burden on the Russians ... Nevertheless, much remains to be done. The administration (US) is putting pressure on the respective governments and companies to stop financial and other support for the Assad regime, and will continue to do so. ”
Andrey Polunin ("Free press") interviewed experts on the subject of sanctions against Russian banks. Politician and economist Yury Boldyrev said the following:
“If sanctions against Russian banks are imposed, this is a severe blow. Our entire financial system is not independent, and therefore vulnerable. At the same time, this is a very effective warning to the Russian authorities that they will not succeed in reaching an agreement with America: either you will crawl on your knees and beg forgiveness, or we will beat you in full.
Then how? Either you hand over the sovereignty of the country, and then you will bend down lower and lower, or you will desperately fight for independence - engineering, technological, defense. It is impossible to pretend at the same time that you are opposing the United States, and at the same time destroy the remnants of your own science. You can not simultaneously speak on the problem of Syria, as a measured, thoughtful force, which offers, without hurrying, to wait for the results of examinations, and at the same time push the destruction of the RAS at a leap. In fact, the question of the fate of our Academy of Sciences is no less complex and important than the Syrian one - why does the Kremlin behave differently in these situations ?! ”
Then how? Either you hand over the sovereignty of the country, and then you will bend down lower and lower, or you will desperately fight for independence - engineering, technological, defense. It is impossible to pretend at the same time that you are opposing the United States, and at the same time destroy the remnants of your own science. You can not simultaneously speak on the problem of Syria, as a measured, thoughtful force, which offers, without hurrying, to wait for the results of examinations, and at the same time push the destruction of the RAS at a leap. In fact, the question of the fate of our Academy of Sciences is no less complex and important than the Syrian one - why does the Kremlin behave differently in these situations ?! ”
The answer is simple, the expert believes. When the United States is hitting the Russian financial system, Moscow is unequivocally warned that in the framework of the dollar system, within the Central Bank of the Russian Federation, dependent on the dollar, Russia cannot gain sovereignty. If you gain sovereignty, explains the economist, so
“In full, including financial. The modern world does not offer any other option. Either crawling on my knees, or rising to my full height - there is no third option. ”
Moreover, the American strike will be the most severe, because VTB, VEB and Gazprombank, comrade Boldyrev notes, operate mainly with currency, and all dollar operations pass through settlement centers in the United States. VTB and VEB are “pieces of the state, albeit formally separated from it. To freeze their assets is almost the same thing as to freeze the assets of the Central Bank of Russia. ” As the next step, the expert says, Americans could arrest all the property of the Russian Federation in the United States. Between these two steps is not such a big distance, the analyst believes.
At the same time, Boldyrev does not think that the Americans will freeze Russian bank assets in the near future. However, the very senatorial warning -
“A very tough blackmail, designed for the fact that our government - portraying the appearance of independence - will, under pressure, hand over even more rapidly the strategic interests of the country”.
Nikita Krichevsky, a professor and chief researcher at the Institute of Economics of the Russian Academy of Sciences, gave a “more moderate” opinion to the Free Press:
“Obama will not go to such sanctions. But if, hypothetically, this happens, VTB, VEB and Gazprombank will work with the States through other financial institutions, through correspondent accounts with other credit institutions. In my opinion, from an economic point of view, the measure proposed by the senators is completely empty. This is nothing more than demagoguery and shocking fists. "
However, Comrade Krichevsky also points out: American senators are thus beating on Russia, because two of the three banks are state banks. Therefore, the threat of sanctions is an additional tool of pressure on Russia on the Syrian issue.
Olga Gritsenko ("Sight") recalls that earlier in the media more than once wrote about the cooperation of Russian state banks with Damascus. For example, last year, the Financial Times reported: “While Western banks stopped their ties with Syria, Russian financial institutions - VTB, Vnesheconombank, and Gazprombank — work with it in the usual way.” And in May 2013 of the year in the Western press passed the information that Syria paid the cost of six C-300 complexes through VTB. Finally, quite recently, Reuters claimed that in recent months Damascus had transferred almost 1 billion to Moscow for four C-300 and 550 million for Moscow for 36 Yak-130 combat aircraft.
The head of the Center for Analysis of the World Arms Trade, Igor Korotchenko, told the newspaper Vzglyad:
“Domestic American legislation does not apply to the Russian Federation. Our supplies to Syria are absolutely legal and legitimate from the point of view of the norms of international law, since no sanctions were imposed at the level of the UN Security Council and there is no prohibition on military-technical cooperation with Syria. And the fact that the Americans impose some kind of sanctions does not mean that Russia should follow them. ”
According to Korotchenko, the American initiative is another “recurrence of the thinking of the times of the Cold War”. According to him, the introduction of sanctions against Russia can be regarded as arbitrariness: “This will be an unfriendly decision, and we, in turn, will have the right to retaliate, for example, to prohibit senators from entering Russia. We must respond to such tricks. In addition, the listed banks are respected in the international community, and international banks and financiers will negatively react to the initiative of US senators. ”
It is strange, of course, to believe, let us add on our own that the American senators are rushing to Russia or are frightened by such a terrible measure as the ban on visiting Moscow. On the other hand, it is too early to speak of retaliatory measures: it is unlikely that the petition, signed by just four senators, would later become valid.
Nevertheless, this document should be attached to the thick bundle of American papers that has accumulated on the so-called Syrian issue and which serves a single case, jointly promoted by the monarchies of the Persian Gulf, official Washington and the military-industrial complex circles behind congressmen: remove from power in Damascus, Assad and put there on the throne of some petty vassal from the "opposition", loyal to the White House and the Saudis from Qatar to the last pimple.
The petition of senators signals not only Russia and Syria, but the entire world community: Washington will never back down on the idea of overthrowing Assad.
Meanwhile, official Damascus agrees to destroy its own chemical weapons. Already calculated the time and cost of such an operation.
The transfer of chemical weapons in Syria under international control will cost about 1 billion dollars and take about a year. This was said by Bashar Asad in an interview with Fox News, reports "Sight".
Syrian President explained: "This is a very difficult operation, it requires a lot of money, about 1 billion (dollars), and about a year - maybe less, maybe more." He added: "We are ready to transfer (chemical weapons) to any country that is ready to receive it."
Appeared in the press and the information that help Damascus in the export and destruction of chemical weapons will, in addition to UN experts, the military from several countries, including Russia.
How to write Elena Chernenko and Ivan Safronov (Kommersant), referring to an unnamed source in the General Staff of the Russian Federation, consultations are underway in the defense ministry “on the quantitative composition of the contingent”, which may be sent to Syria. The group is likely to include specialists from the radiation, chemical and biological defense forces of the RF Armed Forces. It is possible that a special forces brigade will be sent to the site of the operation.
It is not known how many servicemen Russia will send to Syria. “Different options are being considered. The exact number and composition of the contingent will depend on how many soldiers our foreign partners will provide for this mission, ”an anonymous source told Kommersant. He added that the total number of participants from all countries can be up to 10 thousand people.
Thus, while Russia and Syria implement their commitments to destroy chemical weapons, contributing to further peace negotiations there, some US senators seek to restore peace during the Cold War and show that America is in favor of democracy and disarmament, and Russia supports the bloodthirsty Syrian tyrant-poisoner, supplying him with weapons from under the floors.
In conclusion, the material is a few lines about Senator John Kornin, one of the signatories of the petition against Russian banks.
This man has consistently harmed Russia. At the end of last year, he acted as the author of an initiative to amend the US defense budget, which prohibits the Pentagon from making deals with Rosoboronexport. Cornyn said that Washington should abandon purchases from Russia: after all, it supports the Syrian authorities.
In 2012, Kornin did not succeed, although the Senate supported the amendment. The Senators were objected to the Pentagon, who considered that the choice of the Mi-17 was the best for the AF of Afghanistan.
However, John did not leave attempts. Not by hook or by crook ...
As reported by 18 on September 2013. correspondent ITAR-TASS Dmitry Kirsanov, a group of members of the US Congress in writing asked the US Attorney General, Attorney General Eric Holder to connect to the investigation of the circumstances of the Pentagon's purchase of Mi-17 helicopters for Afghanistan. The text of the letter, dated 16 September, was made public by John Cornin.
Legislators ask Mr. Holder to study information about possible abuse of power by the former and current management in charge of the non-standard helicopter program aviation US Army, which also includes the Mi-17 for the Afghan Armed Forces. Lawmakers insist that Holder "use all available resources, including the Federal Bureau of Investigation." Congressmen crave a “criminal investigation into the matter.” The petition was signed by 9 senators, including Kornin, and 23 members of the House of Representatives. The US Department of Justice has already confirmed that they are studying the letter.
Well, let us add from ourselves, there is every reason to assert that John Cornyn and K will not leave their anti-Russian and anti-Syrian inclinations ...
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