State Department says Russia has triggered more sanctions

Russian President Vladimir Putin
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Russia has missed a deadline to swear off use of chemical weapons, the State Department said in a notification to Congress Tuesday, which has triggered a new round of sanctions per the Chemical and Biological Weapons Control and Warfare Elimination Act of 1991.

The Trump administration was required to certify whether Russia has complied with the law's terms and now must choose three of six sanctions options. The new measures may take several weeks to go into effect, though they could be waived if the president determines it is in U.S. national interest to do so.

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Bonnie Kristian

Bonnie Kristian was a deputy editor and acting editor-in-chief of TheWeek.com. She is a columnist at Christianity Today and author of Untrustworthy: The Knowledge Crisis Breaking Our Brains, Polluting Our Politics, and Corrupting Christian Community (forthcoming 2022) and A Flexible Faith: Rethinking What It Means to Follow Jesus Today (2018). Her writing has also appeared at Time Magazine, CNN, USA Today, Newsweek, the Los Angeles Times, and The American Conservative, among other outlets.