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Whereas on July 29, 2014, the United States Department of 
State released its report on the Adherence to and Compli-
ance with Arms Control, Nonproliferation, and Disar-
mament Agreements and Commitments, as required by 
Section 403 of the Arms Control and Disarmament Act, 
for calendar year 2013, which found that, ‘‘[t]he United 
States has determined that the Russian Federation is in 
violation of its obligations under the INF Treaty not to 
possess, produce, or flight-test a ground-launched cruise 
missile (GLCM) with a range capability of 500 km to 
5,500 km, or to possess or produce launchers of such 
missiles’’; 
Whereas concerns also exist with respect to a new Russian 
ballistic missile, the RS–26, which, according to reports, 
has been tested on multiple occasions at intermediate 
ranges, and in different configurations, which would be 
covered by the interpretative statements the United 
States Senate relied upon when it ratified the INF Trea-
ty in May 1988; 
Whereas the Russian Federation has requested the approval 
of new sensors and new aircraft to be flown over the 
United States and Europe as part of the Treaty on Open 
Skies, and serious concerns have been raised regarding 
impacts to United States national security if such ap-
proval is given; 
Whereas on November 11, 2014, the Commander, U.S. Euro-
pean Command, and Supreme Allied Commander Eu-
rope, General Breedlove, stated that, Russian forces ‘‘ca-
pable of being nuclear’’ are being moved to the Crimea 
Peninsula; 
Whereas according to reports, the Government of the Russian 
Federation has repeatedly engaged in the infiltration of,
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and attacks on, computer networks of the United States 
Government, as well as individuals and private entities, 
for the purpose of illicitly acquiring information and dis-
rupting operations, including by supporting Russian indi-
viduals and entities engaged in these actions; 
Whereas the political, military, and economic aggression 
against Ukraine and other countries by the Russian Fed-
eration underscores the enduring importance of the 
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) as the cor-
nerstone of collective Euro-Atlantic defense; 
Whereas the United States reaffirms its obligations under the 
North Atlantic Treaty, especially Article 5 which states 
that ‘‘an armed attack against one or more’’ of the treaty 
signatories ‘‘shall be considered an attack against them 
all’’; 
Whereas the Russian Federation is continuing to use its sup-
ply of energy as a means of political and economic coer-
cion against Ukraine, Georgia, Moldova, and other Euro-
pean countries; 
Whereas the United States strongly supports energy diver-
sification initiatives in Ukraine, Georgia, Moldova, and 
other European countries to reduce the ability of the 
Russian Federation to use its supply of energy for polit-
ical and economic coercion, including the development of 
domestic sources of energy, increased efficiency, and sub-
stituting Russian energy resources with imports from 
other countries; 
Whereas the Russian Federation continues to conduct an ag-
gressive propaganda effort in Ukraine in which false in-
formation is used to subvert the authority of the legiti-
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mate national government, undermine stability, promote 
ethnic dissension, and incite violence; 
Whereas the Russian Federation has expanded the presence 
of its state-sponsored media in national languages across 
central and western Europe with the intent of using news 
and information to distort public opinion and obscure 
Russian political and economic influence in Europe; 
Whereas expanded efforts by United States international 
broadcasting across all media in the Russian and Ukrain-
ian languages are needed to counter Russian propaganda 
and to provide the people of Ukraine and the surrounding 
regions with access to credible and balanced information; 
Whereas the Voice of America and Radio Free Europe/Radio 
Liberty (RFE/RL), Incorporated continue to represent a 
minority market share in Ukraine and other regional 
states with significant ethno-linguistic Russian popu-
lations who increasingly obtain their local and inter-
national news from Russian state-sponsored media out-
lets; 
Whereas the United States International Programming to 
Ukraine and Neighboring Regions Act of 2014 (Public 
Law 113–96) requires the Voice of America and RFE/ 
RL, Incorporated to provide programming content to tar-
get populations in Ukraine and Moldova 24 hours a day, 
7 days a week, including at least 8 weekly hours of total 
original video and television content and 14 weekly hours 
of total audio content while expanding cooperation with 
local media outlets and deploying greater content through 
multimedia platforms and mobile devices; and 
Whereas Vladimir Putin has established an increasingly au-
thoritarian regime in the Russian Federation through
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fraudulent elections, the persecution and jailing of polit-
ical opponents, the elimination of independent media, the 
seizure of key sectors of the economy and enabling sup-
porters to enrich themselves through widespread corrup-
tion, and implementing a strident propaganda campaign 
to justify Russian aggression against other countries and 
repression in Russia, among other actions: Now, there-
fore, be it 
Resolved, That the House of Representatives— 
(1) strongly supports the efforts by President 
Poroshenko and the people of Ukraine to establish a 
lasting peace in their country that includes the full with-
drawal of Russian forces from the territory of Ukraine, 
full control of Ukraine’s international borders, the dis-
arming of separatist and paramilitary forces in eastern 
Ukraine, the adoption of policies to reduce the ability of 
the Russian Federation to use energy exports and trade 
barriers as weapons to apply economic and political pres-
sure, and an end to interference by the Russian Federa-
tion in the internal affairs of Ukraine; 
(2) affirms the right of Ukraine, Georgia, Moldova, 
and all countries to exercise their sovereign rights within 
their internationally recognized borders free from outside 
intervention, and to conduct their foreign policy in ac-
cordance with their determination of the best interests of 
their peoples;
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(3) condemns the continuing political, economic, 
and military aggression by the Russian Federation 
against Ukraine, Georgia, and Moldova and the con-
tinuing violation of their sovereignty, independence, and 
territorial integrity; 
(4) states that the military intervention by the Rus-
sian Federation in Ukraine— 
(A) is in breach of its obligations under the 
United Nations Charter; 
(B) is in clear violation of each of the 10 prin-
ciples of the 1975 Helsinki Accords; 
(C) is in violation of the 1994 Budapest 
Memorandum on Security Assurances in which it 
pledged to respect the independence, sovereignty, 
and existing borders of Ukraine and to refrain from 
the threat of the use of force against the territorial 
integrity or political independence of Ukraine; and 
(D) poses a threat to international peace and 
security; 
(5) calls on the Russian Federation to reverse its il-
legal annexation of Crimea, to end its support of the 
separatist forces in Crimea, and to remove its military 
forces from that region other than those operating in 
strict accordance with its 1997 agreement on the Status