S. 5025

Lindsey O. Graham Sanctioning Russia Act of 2026

Sponsor: Darline Graham

63 cosponsors
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Official summary

Written by the Congressional Research Service.

Lindsey O. Graham Sanctioning Russia Act of 2026

This bill imposes a variety of sanctions, tariffs, and prohibitions related to Russia.

For example, under the bill, the President must 

  • impose visa- and property-blocking sanctions on specified persons (individuals and entities) such as the Russian president, certain Russian military commanders, and any foreign person that knowingly provides goods or services relating to Russia's defense industrial base;
  • increase the rate of duty on all goods imported into the United States from Russia to a rate of up to 500% ad valorem (i.e., relative to the value);
  • increase the rate of duty up to 100% ad valorem on all goods imported into the United States from a country that was among the five largest importers of Russian-origin crude oil or natural gas if such country knowingly makes new purchases of such products after enactment of the bill;
  • impose property-blocking sanctions on financial institutions organized under Russian law and owned wholly or partly by Russia; and 
  • impose property-blocking sanctions on foreign vessels that knowingly transport certain products of Russian origin, including crude oil, uranium, and coal. 

The bill prohibits (1) the export, reexport, or in-country transfer to or in Russia of U.S.-produced energy or energy product; (2) U.S. persons from making new investments in Russia or purchasing Russian sovereign debt; and (3) trading the securities of Russian government-owned, -controlled, or -affiliated entities on U.S. national securities exchanges.

The President may waive requirements of the bill by certifying it is in the national interest.

Text of the bill

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I Sanctions with respect to the Russian Federation

Sec. 101. Definitions

In this title:

(1) Account; correspondent account; payable-through account. The terms account, correspondent account, and payable-through account have the meanings given those terms in section 5318A of title 31, United States Code.

(2) Adequate maritime insurance. The term adequate maritime insurance—

(A) means verified documentation evidencing protection and indemnity insurance with audited financial statements of the insurer; and

(B) does not include insurance provided by an insurer organized under the laws of the Russian Federation or otherwise subject to the jurisdiction of the Government of the Russian Federation.

(3) Admission; admitted; alien; etc. The terms admission, admitted, alien, and lawfully admitted for permanent residence have the meanings given those terms in section 101 of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1101).

(4) Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. The term Armed Forces of the Russian Federation includes—

(A) the Aerospace Forces of the Russian Federation;

(B) the Airborne Forces of the Russian Federation;

(C) the Ground Forces of the Russian Federation;

(D) the Navy of the Russian Federation;

(E) the Special Operations Command of the Russian Federation;

(F) the Strategic Rocket Forces of the Russian Federation;

(G) the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation;

(H) the Main Directorate of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation (formerly known as the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Russian Federation);

(I) the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation;

(J) the Foreign Intelligence Service of the Russian Federation;

(K) cyber actors of the Government of the Russian Federation; and

(L) any successor entities or proxies of the entities described in subparagraphs (A) through (K).

(5) Blocked property. The term blocked property means any property blocked pursuant to the authority of the President under section 203 of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1702).

(6) Critical infrastructure

(A) In general. The term critical infrastructure, with respect to Ukraine, means systems and assets, whether physical or virtual, so vital to Ukraine that the incapacity or destruction of such systems and assets would have catastrophic regional or national effects on public health or safety, economic security, or national security.

(B) Included sectors. The term critical infrastructure includes assets in the following sectors:

(i) Biotechnology.

(ii) Chemical.

(iii) Commercial facilities.

(iv) Communications.

(v) Critical manufacturing.

(vi) Dams.

(vii) Defense industrial base.

(viii) Emergency services.

(ix) Energy.

(x) Financial services.

(xi) Food and agriculture.

(xii) Government facilities.

(xiii) Healthcare and public health.

(xiv) Information technology.

(xv) Materials and waste.

(xvi) Nuclear reactors.

(xvii) Space.

(xviii) Transportation systems.

(xix) Water and wastewater systems.

(7) Foreign person. The term foreign person means an individual or entity that is not a United States person.

(8) Knowing; knowingly; knows. The terms knowing, knowingly, and knows, with respect to conduct, a circumstance, or a result, means that a person had actual knowledge, or should have known, of the conduct, the circumstance, or the result.

(9) Military invasion. The term military invasion includes—

(A) a ground operation or assault;

(B) an amphibious landing or assault;

(C) an airborne operation or air assault;

(D) an aerial bombardment or blockade;

(E) missile attacks, including rockets, ballistic missiles, cruise missiles, and hypersonic missiles;

(F) a naval bombardment or armed blockade;

(G) a destructive or destabilizing cyberattack against critical infrastructure; and

(H) an attack by a country on any territory controlled or administered by any other independent, sovereign country, including offshore islands controlled or administered by that country.

(10) Russian person. The term Russian person means—

(A) a citizen or national of the Russian Federation; or

(B) an entity organized under the laws of the Russian Federation or otherwise subject to the jurisdiction of the Government of the Russian Federation.

(11) United States person. The term United States person means—

(A) a United States citizen or an alien lawfully admitted for permanent residence to the United States; or

(B) an entity organized under the laws of the United States or any jurisdiction within the United States, including a foreign branch of such an entity.

II Other matters