In a press release, the US Treasury Department said it was also targeting “companies operating in the Russian virtual currency industry, which is reported to be the third largest in the world”, noting that this is the first time , when it has “designated a company to extract virtual currency”.
In addition, the State Department imposes visa restrictions “on 635 Russian citizens who participate in the suppression of dissent in Russia and abroad, who have participated in activities that threaten the territorial integrity of Ukraine, and who have been involved in human rights violations in prison facilities and places of unofficial detention in the Russian-controlled regions of Ukraine’s Donbass region, as well as three Russian officials “involved in gross human rights violations and 17 people responsible for undermining democracy in Belarus,” according to the treasury.
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