Inside the legal design of America's Russia sanctions U-turn
- Publisher
- The Kyiv Independent via Yahoo News
- Published
- 2026-10-23
- Type
- analysis
- Link
- https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/inside-legal-design-americas-russia-161812214.html
- Last checked
- 2026-10-26
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- reference only — we link and describe; we do not republish the text.
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Foreign Policy
He signed the Russia sanctions law in September and waived it in October, after a phone call with Putin about diesel
On October 9, 2026 Trump agreed with Putin by phone to let Russian diesel back into world markets; a week later he waived the core of the Lindsey Graham sanctions act he had signed 28 days earlier, as Russia offered nothing in return.