U.S. imposes sanctions on Russia over attempts to influence election

This is said in an official statement by the U.S. Department of Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Contr (OFAC), Ukrinform reports.

“Today, the Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Contr (OFAC) designated 10 individuals and two entities as part of a coordinated U.S. government response to Moscow’s malign influence efforts targeting the 2024 U.S. presidential election,” the statement says.

The sanctions have been imposed against RT (formerly Russia Today), RT editor-in-chief Margarita Simonian, her deputies Elizaveta Brodskaya, Anton Anisimov, Andrey Kashko, and other employees of the praganda resource.

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In addition, restrictions have been imposed on the pro-Kremlin hacker group RaHDit, which is affiliated with the FSB, as well as the Dialog and Dialog Regions civic platforms.

The U.S. Department of Treasury noted that these Russian state-sponsored actors have long used a variety of tos, such as generative artificial intelligence (AI) deep fakes and disinformation, in an attempt “to undermine confidence in the United States’ election processes and institutions.”

As reported by Ukrinform, the U.S. government considers the Russian state media network RT a key part of the Kremlin's praganda efforts.