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Those cuts will be made not just at the embassy in Moscow, but also the consulates in St. Petersburg, Yekaterinburg, and Vladivostok. The Foreign Ministry also accused the USA of violating diplomatic protocol, particularly in its seizure of two Russian diplomatic compounds in NY and Maryland that the US said were being used by Russian intelligence.

The provisions were included to assuage concerns among lawmakers that the president's push for better relations with Moscow might lead him to relax the penalties without first securing concessions from the Kremlin. The North Korea sanctions are created to punish the country for its nuclear and ballistic-missile programmes. What's so interesting is that the Trump administration made very clear they didn't want to see this move ahead.

KORTEWEG: So the European Union is reacting with a sense of nervousness and uncertainty about the sanctions bill and not because it doesn't agree with the fact that the thumbscrews should be put on Russian Federation or on Iran or North Korea for that matter.

Before being appointed as the White House Chief of Staff, Priebus was the chairman of the Republican National Committee, in which capacity he played a key role in Trump's presidential election. "As a Marine Corps officer, he instilled loyalty, respect and admiration from all who served under him". A shakeup at the White House. The New York Post reports that it was the Mooch's "naked political ambition", (i.e., shameless Trump dick riding) that did his marriage in.

While the measure was debated in Congress, White House officials wouldn't commit to whether the president would sign the bill, saying it may infringe on presidential authority. 2 Republican, said on Tuesday there had been no decision on when the Senate might begin to consider the House bill. "It was the last drop that made all this happen", he said in reference to the "completely weird and unacceptable" bill approved by the U.S.

Moscow has responded by ordering a reduction in the number of U.S. diplomats in Russian Federation and closing the U.S. Embassy's recreation retreat. Thirty-five Russian diplomats were expelled from the United States in December under sanctions President Barack Obama imposed over Russia's alleged meddling in the 2016 election.

Congressional Democrats are praising Republican Senator John McCain after he helped them defeat a proposed law Thursday night that would have repealed the seven-year old Affordable Care Act (ACA), also known as Obamacare. One provision that had been restored after the parliamentarian initially struck it was an attempt to defund Planned Parenthood for a year. There's also the issue of the federal Children's Health Plan, which is set to run out of federal funding later this year.

White House spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders said Mr Trump would sign the bill, but only after having negotiated "critical elements" of it. In a statement released by the State Department on Saturday, Tillerson said the overwhelming House and Senate votes in favor of the sanctions "represent the strong will of the American people to see Russian Federation take steps to improve relations with the United States ".

Ragnar Klavan was the first to dive into the icy lake, while the likes of Philippe Coutinho and Alberto Moreno seemed more content to sit on the side and compare some slightly unusual tattoos including a Mickey Mouse face on the side of the Brazilian.

Earlier this month, the election commission had notified election for 10 Rajya Sabha seats - 6 in West Bengal, 3 in Gujarat and 1 in Madhya Pradesh. "Both leaders will contest from Gujarat, where three seats will fall vacant in September".

That severely limits Trump's ability to cut a deal with Putin, whose top priority is the rollback of USA and European sanctions against his economy and associates. Trump's concerns include a provision letting Congress stop any effort to ease existing sanctions on Russian Federation. But Trump has not done so, and the sanctions he now plans to sign into law will now make that almost impossible given sharp anti-Kremlin sentiments in Congress.