
The US Treasury has adjusted exceptions to sanctions, allowing a number of transactions with the Russian Federal Security Service, follows from the general license published on the department's website. We are talking about cases where American companies need, among other things, to request or obtain permission from the FSB to import, distribute and use IT products in Russia.
Exceptions are provided on the condition that EXPORT control rules established by the US Department of Commerce are observed, and the amount of fees paid to the FSB will not exceed $5,000 per year, the document says.
This is not the first time Washington has adjusted sanctions against the FSB. Similar changes have already been applied by the United States so that American companies can interact with the Russian intelligence service as a regulator in the field of imports of cryptographic IT products to Russia, RBC wrote.
On April 27, the US Treasury Department announced new sanctions against Russia and Iran in connection with the "illegal detention of US citizens." The FSB and high-ranking intelligence officers of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps were subject to restrictive measures, the report said.
The report of the Ministry of Finance does not mention specific persons, because of whose detention sanctions were imposed against the FSB. At the end of March, Russian intelligence agencies detained The Wall Street Journal journalist Evan Gershkovich in Yekaterinburg on suspicion of espionage. The State Department considers his "holding" illegal, and US President Joe Biden called for the release of the journalist.
The FSB has previously been under US sanctions. Back in 2016, they were approved by then US President Barack Obama.
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