Anti-Russian sanctions are intended for American voters. First, four senators, two from both parties, wrote the "Defending American Security from Kremlin Aggression Act of A couple of days later, the Trump administration struck back, promising to limit the export of dual-use goods to Russia starting August 22nd in light of the Skripal case. The conditions for the mitigation of sanctions are certainly not feasible: from the return of Crimea to Ukraine to stopping the use of a chemical weapon which Russia has long since destroyed. Sergey Lavrov, Russian Foreign Minister: "It has been confirmed that, according to all possible inspections that were carried out on our territory, chemical disarmament of the Russian Federation is complete. The United States was supposed to do that approximately at the same time, but it asked for an extension yet again, this time, up to early