US Treasury and State Department sanction Russian intelligence officers for election interference.

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The US Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has sanctioned two Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) officers who played a significant role in the Kremlin's attempts to conduct global malign influence operations, including efforts to influence a local election in the United States. The FSB officers are assigned to the FSB's Service for the Protection of the Constitutional System and the Fight Against Terrorism, which has worked to undermine democratic processes in the United States and other countries through a network of co-optees.
- Treasury Sanctions Russian Intelligence Officers Supervising Election Influence Operations in the United States and Around the World Treasury
- Targeting Russia's Global Malign Influence Operations and Election Interference Activities - United States Department of State Department of State
- US sanctions Russian intelligence officers over elections interference The Washington Post
- US Targets Two Russian Spies It Says Tried to Influence Local US Election U.S. News & World Report
- Washington Imposes Sanctions On Two Russian FSB Officers Who Allegedly Tried To Influence U.S. Elections Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty
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