The long-awaited “oligarch list”—a reporting requirement mandated by the Countering America’s Adversaries Through Sanctions Act (CAATSA), passed and signed into law by President Donald Trump on August 2, 2017—was published a few minutes before midnight last night, a very short time before the official deadline for releasing it was set to expire.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin (2nd L) speaks with Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov (L), director of the Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) Sergei Naryshkin (R) and Alexander Bortnikov (2nd R), director of the Federal Security Service (FSB), during a meeting at the Kremlin in Moscow on Dec. 19, 2016.
