Reuters first to report Biden to bar U.S. banks from buying Russian government rouble debt in primary markets

Reuters was first to report that President Joe Biden would issue an executive order authorizing the U.S. government to sanction any sector of the Russian economy and will use it to restrict Russia’s ability to issue sovereign debt to punish Moscow for interfering in the 2020 U.S. election. The sanctions will include the blacklisting of about 30 entities as well as orders expelling about 10 Russian officials from the United States.