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    <item congress="119" measure-type="s" measure-number="1241" measure-id="id119s1241" originChamber="SENATE" orig-publish-date="2025-04-01" update-date="2025-07-15">
        <title>Sanctioning Russia Act of 2025</title>
        <summary summary-id="id119s1241v00" currentChamber="SENATE" update-date="2025-07-15">
            <action-date>2025-04-01</action-date>
            <action-desc>Introduced in Senate</action-desc>
            <summary-text><![CDATA[<p><strong>Sanctioning Russia Act of 2025</strong><br/>&nbsp;<br/>This bill imposes penalties on certain persons (individuals and entities) if the President determines that the Russian government or a person acting at Russia's direction is involved with (1) refusing to negotiate a peace agreement with Ukraine; (2) violating a negotiated peace agreement; (3) initiating another invasion of Ukraine; or (4) overthrowing, dismantling, or seeking to subvert the Ukrainian government.<br/>&nbsp;<br/>If the President makes such a determination, the bill requires certain actions including</p><ul><li>the President must impose visa- and property-blocking sanctions on specified persons such as the Russian president, certain Russian military commanders, and any foreign person that knowingly provides defense items to the Russian armed forces;</li><li>the President must increase the rate of duty on all goods and services imported from Russia into the United States to at least 500% relative to the value of such goods and services;</li><li>the President must increase the rate of duty on all goods and services imported into the United States from countries that knowingly engage in the exchange of Russian-origin uranium and petroleum products to at least 500% relative to the value of such goods and services;</li><li>the Department of the Treasury must impose property-blocking sanctions on any financial institution organized under Russian law and owned wholly or partly by Russia, and any financial institution that engages in transactions with those entities; and</li><li>the Department of Commerce must prohibit the export, reexport, or in-country transfer to or in Russia of any U.S.-produced energy or energy product.</li></ul>]]></summary-text>
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