1.0Центр журналистских расследованийhttps://investigator.org.ua/enedvpkhttps://investigator.org.ua/en/author/karaivan/rich600338<blockquote class="wp-embedded-content" data-secret="LxzA9ixZBO"><a href="https://investigator.org.ua/en/publication/235961/">George Kent: The US authorities are more than willing to consider information from the Ukrainian government and civil society about using new «Crimean sanctions»</a></blockquote><iframe sandbox="allow-scripts" security="restricted" src="https://investigator.org.ua/en/publication/235961/embed/#?secret=LxzA9ixZBO" width="600" height="338" title="“George Kent: The US authorities are more than willing to consider information from the Ukrainian government and civil society about using new «Crimean sanctions»” — Центр журналистских расследований" data-secret="LxzA9ixZBO" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" class="wp-embedded-content"></iframe><script type="text/javascript"> /*! This file is auto-generated */ !function(c,d){"use strict";var e=!1,o=!1;if(d.querySelector)if(c.addEventListener)e=!0;if(c.wp=c.wp||{},c.wp.receiveEmbedMessage);else if(c.wp.receiveEmbedMessage=function(e){var t=e.data;if(!t);else if(!(t.secret||t.message||t.value));else if(/[^a-zA-Z0-9]/.test(t.secret));else{for(var r,s,a,i=d.querySelectorAll('iframe[data-secret="'+t.secret+'"]'),n=d.querySelectorAll('blockquote[data-secret="'+t.secret+'"]'),o=new RegExp("^https?:$","i"),l=0;l<n.length;l++)n[l].style.display="none";for(l=0;l<i.length;l++)if(r=i[l],e.source!==r.contentWindow);else{if(r.removeAttribute("style"),"height"===t.message){if(1e3<(s=parseInt(t.value,10)))s=1e3;else if(~~s<200)s=200;r.height=s}if("link"===t.message)if(s=d.createElement("a"),a=d.createElement("a"),s.href=r.getAttribute("src"),a.href=t.value,!o.test(a.protocol));else if(a.host===s.host)if(d.activeElement===r)c.top.location.href=t.value}}},e)c.addEventListener("message",c.wp.receiveEmbedMessage,!1),d.addEventListener("DOMContentLoaded",t,!1),c.addEventListener("load",t,!1);function t(){if(o);else{o=!0;for(var e,t,r,s=-1!==navigator.appVersion.indexOf("MSIE 10"),a=!!navigator.userAgent.match(/Trident.*rv:11\./),i=d.querySelectorAll("iframe.wp-embedded-content"),n=0;n<i.length;n++){if(!(r=(t=i[n]).getAttribute("data-secret")))r=Math.random().toString(36).substr(2,10),t.src+="#?secret="+r,t.setAttribute("data-secret",r);if(s||a)(e=t.cloneNode(!0)).removeAttribute("security"),t.parentNode.replaceChild(e,t);t.contentWindow.postMessage({message:"ready",secret:r},"*")}}}}(window,document); </script> https://investigator.org.ua/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/george_kent_2.png1083607Having cancelled the Free Economic Zone «Crimea» that «benefitted not Ukrainian national interests but oligarchic personal business interests, Ukraine can show that it is serious» about changing the sanction policy, that «Ukraine is not asking partners to do more than Ukraine itself is doing». It is what George Kent, the interim Charge d’affaires at the Embassy of the United States to Ukraine and the Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs, stated in his interview to the Center for Journalist Investigations. In his opinion, the second step for coordinating the sanction policy of countries-partners is to use the convening power of the Crimea Platform. Its participants should focus on forging a more common and more effective approach at holding Russians who have stolen Ukrainian property to account and imposing costs for Russian actions. The US authorities are more than willing to consider specific proposals from the Ukrainian government and civil society about new packages of sanctions. The conversation of Valentyna SAMAR, the Chief Editor of the Center for Journalist Investigations, and Yulia KAZDOBINA, the Head of the Ukrainian Foundation for Security Studies, with George KENT, the interim Charge d’affaires at the Embassy of the United States to Ukraine, continues a series of interviews within the special project «How Do Crimean Sanctions Work?»