Senator Alexei Pushkov, Chairman of the Russian Federation Council’s Interim Commission on Information Policy and Cooperation with the Media, warned that the imposition of additional sanctions on Russia now could disrupt the talks planned for the week of Jan. 10. (Russia-U.S. on Jan. 10, Russia-NATO on Jan. 12, OSCE on Jan. 13)
Pushkov was specifically responding to the statement issued by 24 former U.S. national security officials, ambassadors and other “experts” (as reported by Reuters) calling on Biden to immediately, and publicly, lay out the penalties Russia would face if Putin were to move forward with military action.
