{"id":526599,"date":"2022-10-01T11:55:34","date_gmt":"2022-10-01T06:25:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=526599"},"modified":"2022-10-01T13:39:45","modified_gmt":"2022-10-01T08:09:45","slug":"raft-of-new-us-sanctions-leave-putins-oil-and-gas-revenue-unscathed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/raft-of-new-us-sanctions-leave-putins-oil-and-gas-revenue-unscathed\/","title":{"rendered":"Raft of new US sanctions leave Putin&#8217;s oil and gas revenue unscathed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The US sanctioned hundreds of Russian officials, lawmakers, family members and businesses Friday in what Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen called a \u201csweeping action,\u201d but in reality the measures will have little practical effect on President Vladimir Putin\u2019s ability to sustain his country\u2019s economy with oil and gas revenue. <\/p>\n<p>That raises fundamental questions about the effectiveness of sanctions, despite how big it looks on paper for the Biden administration to go after Russia\u2019s central banker, Elvira Nabiullina, and Alexander Novak, the deputy prime minister and a key figure in Russia\u2019s energy sector. A raft of sanctions so far haven\u2019t materially affected the war on the ground in Ukraine or dented Putin\u2019s determination to pursue it despite repeated setbacks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US sanctioned hundreds of Russian officials, lawmakers, family members and businesses Friday in what Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen called a \u201csweeping action,\u201d but in reality the measures will have little practical effect on President Vladimir Putin\u2019s ability to sustain his country\u2019s economy with oil and gas revenue. That raises fundamental questions about the effectiveness of sanctions, despite how big it looks on paper for the Biden administration to go after Russia\u2019s central banker, Elvira Nabiullina, and Alexander Novak, the deputy prime minister and a key figure in Russia\u2019s energy sector. A raft of sanctions so far haven\u2019t materially affected [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,130,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-526599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=526599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526599\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=526599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=526599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=526599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}