1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Vladimir Putin Transparency Act . 2. Findings Congress finds the following: (1) According to an Intelligence Community Assessment dated January 6, 2017, Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered an influence campaign in 2016 aimed at the US presidential election. Russia’s goals were to undermine public faith in the US democratic process … Moscow’s influence campaign followed a Russian messaging strategy that blends covert intelligence operations—such as cyber activity—with overt efforts by Russian Government agencies, state-funded media, third-party intermediaries, and paid social media users or trolls . . (2) According to the indictment issued by the Attorney General on February 16, 2018, Russian actors conspired to defraud the United States by impairing, obstructing, and defeating the lawful functions of the government through fraud and deceit for the purpose of interfering with the U.S. political and electoral processes, including the presidential election of 2016 . (3) Notwithstanding the enactment of the Countering Adversaries of America through Sanctions Act of 2017 ( Public Law 115–44 ), Russia continues to support efforts to sow and exacerbate divisions among Americans, and to undermine democratic societies around the world. (4) The government of Russian President Vladimir Putin employs a system of corruption and illicit financial ties as a tool for consolidating its domestic political control and projecting power abroad to weaken other democratic countries. (5) Russia has also significantly stepped up its efforts to confront the United States and its allies politically and militarily, and to counter American influence worldwide, including by the following: (A) Invading and illegally occupying Crimea. (B) Intervening in and occupying parts of eastern Ukraine. (C) Deploying substantial military forces and undertaking a ruthless bombing campaign in Syria to prop up the regime of Bashar al-Assad and defeat the American-supported opposition. (D) Significantly