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tion (NATO) member countries, NATO aspirants, and 
appropriate Eastern Partnership countries; 
(14) to reaffirm United States defense commit-
ments to its treaty allies under Article V of the North 
Atlantic Treaty; 
(15) that the continued participation of the Rus-
sian Federation in the Group of Eight (G–8) nations 
should be conditioned on the Government of the Rus-
sian Federation respecting the territorial integrity of 
its neighbors and accepting and adhering to the 
norms and standards of free, democratic societies as 
generally practiced by every other member nation of 
the G–8 nations; 
(16) to explore ways for the United States Gov-
ernment to assist the countries of Central and East-
ern Europe to diversify their energy sources and 
achieve energy security; and 
(17) to ensure the United States maintains its 
predominant leadership position and influence within 
the International Monetary Fund, and to guarantee 
the International Monetary Fund has the resources 
and governance structure necessary to support struc-
tural reforms in Ukraine and respond to and prevent 
a potentially serious financial crisis in Ukraine or
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other foreign economic crises that threatens United 
States national security. 
SEC. 4. PROVISION OF COSTS OF LOAN GUARANTEES FOR 
UKRAINE. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—From the unobligated balance of 
amounts appropriated or otherwise made available under 
the heading ‘‘ECONOMIC SUPPORT FUND’’ under the heading 
‘‘FUNDS APPROPRIATED TO THE PRESIDENT’’ in title III 
of the Department of State, Foreign Operations, and Re-
lated Programs Appropriations Act, 2014 (division K of 
Public Law 113–76) and in Acts making appropriations 
for the Department of State, foreign operations, and related 
programs for preceding fiscal years (other than amounts 
designated pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced 
Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (2 
U.S.C. 901(b)(2)(A))), amounts shall be made available for 
the costs (as defined in section 502 of the Congressional 
Budget Act of 1974 (2 U.S.C. 661a)) of loan guarantees 
for Ukraine that are hereby authorized to be provided under 
this Act. 
(b) INAPPLICABILITY
OF CERTAIN LIMITATIONS.— 
Amounts made available for the costs of loan guarantees 
for Ukraine pursuant to subsection (a) shall not be consid-
ered ‘‘assistance’’ for the purpose of provisions of law lim-
iting assistance to Ukraine.
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SEC. 5. RECOVERY OF ASSETS LINKED TO GOVERNMENTAL 
CORRUPTION IN UKRAINE. 
(a) ASSET RECOVERY.—The Secretary of State, in co-
ordination with the Attorney General and the Secretary of 
the Treasury, shall assist, on an expedited basis as appro-
priate, the Government of Ukraine to identify, secure, and 
recover assets linked to acts of corruption by Viktor 
Yanukovych, members of his family, or other former or cur-
rent officials of the Government of Ukraine or their accom-
plices in any jurisdiction through appropriate programs, 
including the Kleptocracy Asset Recovery Initiative of the 
Department of Justice. 
(b) COORDINATION.—Any asset recovery efforts under-
taken pursuant to subsection (a) shall be coordinated 
through the relevant bilateral or multilateral entities, in-
cluding, as appropriate, the Egmont Group of Financial 
Intelligence Units, the Stolen Asset Recovery Initiative of 
the World Bank Group and the United Nations Office on 
Drugs and Crime, the Camden Asset Recovery Inter-Agency 
Network, and the Global Focal Point Initiative of the Inter-
national Criminal Police Organization (INTERPOL). 
(c) INVESTIGATIVE ASSISTANCE.—The Secretary of 
State, in coordination with the Attorney General, shall as-
sist the Government of Ukraine, the European Union, and 
other appropriate countries, on an expedited basis, with for-
mal and informal investigative assistance and training, as
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appropriate, to support the identification, seizure, and re-
turn to the Government of Ukraine of assets linked to acts 
of corruption. 
(d) PRIORITY ASSIGNED.—The Secretary of the Treas-
ury shall ensure that the Financial Crimes Enforcement 
Network of the Department of the Treasury assists the Gov-
ernment of Ukraine, the European Union, and other appro-
priate countries under section 314(a) of the Uniting and 
Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Re-
quired to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001 (31 
U.S.C. 5311 note). 
SEC. 6. DEMOCRACY, CIVIL SOCIETY, GOVERNANCE, AND 
TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE FOR UKRAINE AND 
OTHER STATES IN CENTRAL AND EASTERN 
EUROPE. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary of State shall, subject 
to the availability of appropriations, directly or through 
nongovernmental organizations— 
(1) 
improve 
democratic 
governance, 
trans-
parency, accountability, rule of law, and anti-corrup-
tion efforts in Ukraine; 
(2) support efforts by the Government of Ukraine 
to foster greater unity among the people and regions 
of the country;
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(3) support the people and Government of 
Ukraine in preparing to conduct and contest free and 
fair elections, including through domestic and inter-
national election monitoring; 
(4) assist in diversifying Ukraine’s economy, 
trade, and energy supplies, including at the national, 
regional, and local levels; 
(5) strengthen democratic institutions and polit-
ical and civil society organizations in Ukraine; 
(6) expand free and unfettered access to inde-
pendent media of all kinds in Ukraine and assist 
with the protection of journalists and civil society ac-
tivists who have been targeted for free speech activi-
ties; 
(7) support political and economic reform initia-
tives by Eastern Partnership countries; and 
(8) support the efforts of the Government of 
Ukraine, civil society, and international organiza-
tions to enhance the economic and political empower-
ment of women in Ukraine and to prevent and ad-
dress violence against women and girls in Ukraine, 
and support the inclusion of women in Ukraine in 
any negotiations to restore Ukraine’s security, inde-
pendence, sovereignty, or territorial or economic in-
tegrity.
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(b) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There is 
authorized to be appropriated to the Secretary of State 
$50,000,000 for fiscal year 2015 to carry out the activities 
set forth in subsection (a). Amounts appropriated for the 
activities set forth in subsection (a) shall be used pursuant 
to the authorization and requirements contained in this sec-
tion. Additional amounts may be authorized to be appro-
priated under other provisions of law. 
(c) STRATEGY REQUIREMENT.—Not later than 60 days 
after the date of the enactment of this Act, the President 
shall submit to the appropriate congressional committees a 
strategy to carry out the activities set forth in subsection 
(a). 
(d) NOTIFICATION REQUIREMENT.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—Funds appropriated or other-
wise made available pursuant to subsection (b) may 
not be obligated until 15 days after the date on which 
the President has provided notice of intent to obligate 
such funds to the appropriate congressional commit-
tees. 
(2) WAIVER.—The President may waive the noti-
fication requirement under paragraph (1) if the 
President determines that failure to do so would pose 
a substantial risk to human health or welfare, in 
which case notification shall be provided as early as
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practicable, but in no event later than three days 
after taking the action to which such notification re-
quirement was applicable in the context of the cir-
cumstances necessitating such waiver. 
SEC. 
7. 
ENHANCED 
SECURITY 
COOPERATION 
WITH 
UKRAINE AND OTHER COUNTRIES IN CEN-
TRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—The President shall, subject to the 
availability of appropriations— 
(1) enhance security cooperation efforts and rela-
tionships amongst countries in Central and Eastern 
Europe and among the United States, the European 
Union, and countries in Central and Eastern Europe; 
(2) provide additional security assistance, in-
cluding defense articles and defense services (as those 
terms are defined in section 47 of the Arms Export 
Control Act (22 U.S.C. 2794)) and military training, 
to countries in Central and Eastern Europe, includ-
ing Ukraine; and 
(3) support greater reform, professionalism, and 
capacity-building efforts within the military, intel-
ligence, and security services in Central and Eastern 
Europe, including Ukraine. 
(b) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There is 
authorized to be appropriated to the President a total of
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$100,000,000 for fiscal years 2015 through 2017 to carry 
out this section. Amounts appropriated for the activities set 
forth in subsection (a) shall be used pursuant to the author-
ization and requirements contained in this section. Addi-
tional amounts may be authorized to be appropriated under 
other provisions of law. 
(c) STRATEGY REQUIREMENT.—Not later than 60 days 
after the date of the enactment of this Act, the President 
shall submit to the appropriate congressional committees a 
strategy to carry out the activities set forth in subsection 
(a). 
(d) NOTIFICATION REQUIREMENT.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—Funds appropriated or other-
wise made available pursuant to subsection (b) may 
not be obligated until 15 days after the date on which 
the President has provided notice of intent to obligate 
such funds to the appropriate congressional commit-
tees and the Committees on Armed Services of the 
Senate and the House of Representatives. 
(2) WAIVER.—The President may waive the noti-
fication requirement under paragraph (1) if the 
President determines that failure to do so would pose 
a substantial risk to human health or welfare, in 
which case notification shall be provided as early as 
practicable, but in no event later than three days
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after taking the action to which such notification re-
quirement was applicable in the context of the cir-
cumstances necessitating such waiver. 
SEC. 8. SANCTIONS ON PERSONS RESPONSIBLE FOR VIO-
LENCE OR UNDERMINING THE PEACE, SECU-
RITY, STABILITY, SOVEREIGNTY, OR TERRI-
TORIAL INTEGRITY OF UKRAINE. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—The President shall impose the 
sanctions described in subsection (b) with respect to— 
(1) any person, including a current or former of-
ficial of the Government of Ukraine or a person act-
ing on behalf of that Government, that the President 
determines has perpetrated, or is responsible for or-
dering, controlling, or otherwise directing, significant 
acts of violence or gross human rights abuses in 
Ukraine 
against 
persons 
associated 
with 
the 
antigovernment protests in Ukraine that began on 
November 21, 2013; 
(2) any person that the President determines has 
perpetrated, or is responsible for ordering, controlling, 
or otherwise directing, significant acts that are in-
tended to undermine the peace, security, stability, 
sovereignty, or territorial integrity of Ukraine, in-
cluding acts of economic extortion;
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(3) any official of the Government of the Russian 
Federation, or a close associate or family member of 
such an official, that the President determines is re-
sponsible for, complicit in, or responsible for ordering, 
controlling, or otherwise directing, acts of significant 
corruption in Ukraine, including the expropriation of 
private or public assets for personal gain, corruption 
related to government contracts or the extraction of 
natural resources, bribery, or the facilitation or trans-
fer of the proceeds of corruption to foreign jurisdic-
tions; and 
(4) any individual that the President determines 
materially assisted, sponsored, or provided financial, 
material, or technological support for, or goods or 
services in support of, the commission of acts de-
scribed in paragraph (1), (2), or (3). 
(b) SANCTIONS DESCRIBED.— 
(1) IN
GENERAL.—The sanctions described in 
this subsection are the following: 
(A) ASSET BLOCKING.—The exercise of all 
powers granted to the President by the Inter-
national Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 
U.S.C. 1701 et seq.) to the extent necessary to 
block and prohibit all transactions in all prop-
erty and interests in property of a person deter-
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mined by the President to be subject to subsection 
(a) if such property and interests in property 
are in the United States, come within the United 
States, or are or come within the possession or 
control of a United States person. 
(B) EXCLUSION FROM THE UNITED STATES 
AND
REVOCATION
OF
VISA
OR
OTHER
DOCU-
MENTATION.—In the case of an alien determined 
by the President to be subject to subsection (a), 
denial of a visa to, and exclusion from the 
United States of, the alien, and revocation in ac-
cordance with section 221(i) of the Immigration 
and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1201(i)), of any 
visa or other documentation of the alien. 
(2) PENALTIES.—A person that violates, at-
tempts to violate, conspires to violate, or causes a vio-
lation of paragraph (1)(A) or any regulation, license, 
or order issued to carry out paragraph (1)(A) shall 
be subject to the penalties set forth in subsections (b) 
and (c) of section 206 of the International Emergency 
Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1705) to the same 
extent as a person that commits an unlawful act de-
scribed in subsection (a) of that section. 
(3) EXCEPTION RELATING TO THE IMPORTATION 
OF GOODS.—
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(A) IN GENERAL.—The requirement to block 
and prohibit all transactions in all property and 
interests in property under paragraph (1)(A) 
shall not include the authority to impose sanc-
tions on the importation of goods. 
(B) GOOD
DEFINED.—In this paragraph, 
the term ‘‘good’’ has the meaning given that term 
in section 16 of the Export Administration Act 
of 1979 (50 U.S.C. App. 2415) (as continued in 
effect pursuant to the International Emergency 
Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.)). 
(4) EXCEPTION TO COMPLY WITH UNITED NA-
TIONS
HEADQUARTERS
AGREEMENT.—Sanctions 
under paragraph (1)(B) shall not apply to an alien 
if admitting the alien into the United States is nec-
essary to permit the United States to comply with the 
Agreement regarding the Headquarters of the United 
Nations, signed at Lake Success June 26, 1947, and 
entered into force November 21, 1947, between the 
United Nations and the United States, or other appli-
cable international obligations. 
(c) WAIVER.—The President may waive the applica-
tion of sanctions under subsection (b) with respect to a per-
son if the President—
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(1) determines that such a waiver is in the na-
tional security interests of the United States; and 
(2) on or before the date on which the waiver 
takes effect, submits to the Committee on Foreign Re-
lations and the Committee on Banking, Housing, and 
Urban Affairs of the Senate and the Committee on 
Foreign Affairs and the Committee on Financial 
Services of the House of Representatives a notice of 
and a justification for the waiver. 
(d) REGULATORY AUTHORITY.—The President shall 
issue such regulations, licenses, and orders as are necessary 
to carry out this section. 
SEC. 9. SANCTIONS ON PERSONS IN THE RUSSIAN FEDERA-
TION COMPLICIT IN OR RESPONSIBLE FOR 
SIGNIFICANT CORRUPTION. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—The President is authorized and en-
couraged to impose the sanctions described in subsection (b) 
with respect to— 
(1) any official of the Government of the Russian 
Federation, or a close associate or family member of 
such an official, that the President determines is re-
sponsible for, or complicit in, or responsible for order-
ing, controlling, or otherwise directing, acts of signifi-
cant corruption in the Russian Federation, including 
the expropriation of private or public assets for per-
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sonal gain, corruption related to government con-
tracts or the extraction of natural resources, bribery, 
or the facilitation or transfer of the proceeds of cor-
ruption to foreign jurisdictions; and 
(2) any individual who has materially assisted, 
sponsored, or provided financial, material, or techno-
logical support for, or goods or services in support of, 
an act described in paragraph (1). 
(b) SANCTIONS DESCRIBED.— 
(1) IN
GENERAL.—The sanctions described in 
this subsection are the following: 
(A) ASSET BLOCKING.—The exercise of all 
powers granted to the President by the Inter-
national Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 
U.S.C. 1701 et seq.) to the extent necessary to 
block and prohibit all transactions in all prop-
erty and interests in property of a person deter-
mined by the President to be subject to subsection 
(a) if such property and interests in property 
are in the United States, come within the United 
States, or are or come within the possession or 
control of a United States person. 
(B) EXCLUSION FROM THE UNITED STATES 
AND
REVOCATION
OF
VISA
OR
OTHER
DOCU-
MENTATION.—In the case of an alien determined
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by the President to be subject to subsection (a), 
denial of a visa to, and exclusion from the 
United States of, the alien, and revocation in ac-
cordance with section 221(i) of the Immigration 
and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1201(i)), of any 
visa or other documentation of the alien. 
(2) PENALTIES.—A person that violates, at-
tempts to violate, conspires to violate, or causes a vio-
lation of paragraph (1)(A) or any regulation, license, 
or order issued to carry out paragraph (1)(A) shall 
be subject to the penalties set forth in subsections (b) 
and (c) of section 206 of the International Emergency 
Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1705) to the same 
extent as a person that commits an unlawful act de-
scribed in subsection (a) of that section. 
(3) EXCEPTION RELATING TO THE IMPORTATION 
OF GOODS.— 
(A) IN GENERAL.—The authority to block 
and prohibit all transactions in all property and 
interests in property under paragraph (1)(A) 
shall not include the authority to impose sanc-
tions on the importation of goods. 
(B) GOOD
DEFINED.—In this paragraph, 
the term ‘‘good’’ has the meaning given that term 
in section 16 of the Export Administration Act
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of 1979 (50 U.S.C. App. 2415) (as continued in 
effect pursuant to the International Emergency 
Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.)). 
(4) EXCEPTION TO COMPLY WITH UNITED NA-
TIONS
HEADQUARTERS
AGREEMENT.—Sanctions 
under paragraph (1)(B) shall not apply to an alien 
if admitting the alien into the United States is nec-
essary to permit the United States to comply with the 
Agreement regarding the Headquarters of the United 
Nations, signed at Lake Success June 26, 1947, and 
entered into force November 21, 1947, between the 
United Nations and the United States, or other appli-
cable international obligations. 
(c) WAIVER.—The President may waive the applica-
tion of sanctions under subsection (b) with respect to a per-
son if the President— 
(1) determines that such a waiver is in the na-
tional security interests of the United States; and 
(2) on or before the date on which the waiver 
takes effect, submits to the Committee on Foreign Re-
lations and the Committee on Banking, Housing, and 
Urban Affairs of the Senate and the Committee on 
Foreign Affairs and the Committee on Financial 
Services of the House of Representatives a notice of 
and a justification for the waiver.
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(d) REGULATORY AUTHORITY.—The President shall 
issue such regulations, licenses, and orders as are necessary 
to carry out this section. 
SEC. 10. ANNUAL REPORT ON MILITARY AND SECURITY DE-
VELOPMENTS INVOLVING THE RUSSIAN FED-
ERATION. 
(a) REPORT.—Not later than June 1, 2015, and June 
1 of each year thereafter through 2020, the Secretary of De-
fense shall submit to the specified congressional committees 
a report, in both classified and unclassified form, on the 
current and future military power of the Russian Federa-
tion (in this section referred to as ‘‘Russia’’). The report 
shall address the current and probable future course of mili-
tary-technological development of the Russian military, the 
tenets and probable development of the security strategy and 
military strategy of the Government of Russia, and mili-
tary organizations and operational concepts, for the 20-year 
period following submission of such report. 
(b) MATTERS TO BE INCLUDED.—The report required 
under subsection (a) shall include the following: 
(1) An assessment of the security situation in re-
gions neighboring Russia. 
(2) The goals and factors shaping the security 
strategy and military strategy of the Government of 
Russia.