{"id":44216,"date":"2022-08-08T13:42:50","date_gmt":"2022-08-08T10:42:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/?p=44216"},"modified":"2022-08-08T13:42:54","modified_gmt":"2022-08-08T10:42:54","slug":"us-senators-called-on-the-white-house-to-declare-the-russian-federation-a-state-sponsor-of-terrorism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/?p=44216","title":{"rendered":"US senators called on the White House to declare the Russian Federation a state sponsor of terrorism"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>US Senators Lindsey Graham (Republican Party) and Richard Blumenthal (Democratic Party) called on the administration of President Joe Biden to recognize Russia as a state sponsor of terrorism.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>KYIV.\u00a0UkraineGate . 8. August . 2022 | Political News .<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Details<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;I believe that the administration should tell Russia that we are making them outcasts,&#8221; Blumenthal emphasized.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They noted that recognition of the Russian Federation as a state sponsor of terrorism should be done either by the president or by Congress.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Both senators said Biden should increase pressure on Russian President Vladimir Putin and continue to help Ukraine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;I hope the president chooses to take this position voluntarily, and he doesn&#8217;t take it off the table on state-sponsored terrorism,&#8221; Blumenthal added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lindsey Graham called on the Biden administration to work with Congress on recognizing Russia as a state sponsor of terrorism, but noted that Congress would advance the decision regardless.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Source<\/strong>:\u00a0<strong>Ukrgate<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0US Senators Lindsey Graham (Republican Party) and Richard Blumenthal (Democratic Party) called on the administration of President Joe Biden to recognize Russia as a state sponsor of terrorism.\u00a0 KYIV.\u00a0UkraineGate . 8. August . 2022 | Political News . Details &#8220;I believe that the administration should tell Russia that we are making them outcasts,&#8221; Blumenthal emphasized. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":44217,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10750],"tags":[813,996,2399,1000,1024,1288,1064,1393,1854],"class_list":["post-44216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-political-news","tag-russia","tag-ukraine","tag-ukraine-gate","tag-ukraine-news","tag-ukrgate","tag-us","tag-war","tag-white-house","tag-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44216"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44237,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44216\/revisions\/44237"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/44217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}