Tales of the New Cold War: US sanctions Russiagate forever

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An interview with Stephen F. Cohen, professor emeritus of Russian studies at Princeton University and New York University.

The new law...specifies that any move by Trump (or any future president) to loosen penalties could be blocked by Congress. That means the new sanctions enjoy a similar status to ones that were entrenched under Jackson-Vanik, a 1974 Cold War-era amendment that imposed trade restrictions on the Soviet Union for blocking Jewish emigration.