{"id":3298,"date":"2014-12-20T09:11:36","date_gmt":"2014-12-20T14:11:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=3298"},"modified":"2014-12-20T09:11:36","modified_gmt":"2014-12-20T14:11:36","slug":"obama-authorizes-economic-embargo-on-russias-crimea-rt-usa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=3298","title":{"rendered":"Obama authorizes \u2018economic embargo\u2019 on Russia\u2019s Crimea \u2014 RT USA"},"content":{"rendered":"

Obama authorizes \u2018economic embargo\u2019 on Russia\u2019s Crimea \u2014 RT USA<\/a>.<\/p>\n

US President Barack Obama has authorized sanctions against individuals and entities operating in Russia\u2019s Crimean peninsula, according to the White House statement.<\/p>\n

Obama has issued an\u00a0executive order<\/a>\u00a0that\u00a0\u201cprohibits the export of goods, technology, or services to Crimea and prohibits the import of goods, technology, or services from Crimea, as well as new investments in Crimea,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0according to the statement.<\/p>\n

The executive order also authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury to impose sanctions on\u00a0\u201cindividuals and entities operating in Crimea.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

READ MORE: EU introduces \u2018discriminatory\u2019 sanctions on Russia\u2019s Crimea<\/a><\/p>\n

The move comes just a day after the European Union introduced similar action against the Russian region of Crimea and Sevastopol, accepted into the Russian Federation following the referendum last March.<\/p>\n

The United States did not recognize the reunification and has been calling on Russia to\u00a0\u201cend its occupation and attempted annexation of Crimea.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

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Obama authorizes \u2018economic embargo\u2019 on Russia\u2019s Crimea \u2014 RT USA. US President Barack Obama has authorized sanctions against individuals and entities operating in Russia\u2019s Crimean peninsula, according to the White House statement. Obama has issued an\u00a0executive order\u00a0that\u00a0\u201cprohibits the export of goods, technology, or services to Crimea and prohibits the import of goods, technology, or services […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1238,2031,694,1109,827],"class_list":["post-3298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-barak-obama","tag-embargo","tag-russia","tag-sanctions","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3298"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3299,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3298\/revisions\/3299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}