November 23, 2022, the European Parliament recognized the Russian Federation as a state sponsor of terrorism. (16) On January 26, 2023, the Department of the Treasury designated the Wagner Group as a Transnational Criminal Organization, citing that Wagner personnel have engaged in an ongoing pattern of serious criminal activity, including mass executions, rape, child abductions, and physical abuse in the Central African Republic (CAR) and Mali . (17) As of January 26, 2023, the Wagner Group has also been sanctioned by Australia, Canada, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the European Union. (18) On February 25, 2023, the European Union implemented Council Regulation 2023/430, which sanctioned eight people and seven entities for serious human rights abuses linked to the Wagner Group in the Central African Republic and Sudan. (19) On February 27, 2023, United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres called Russia’s actions in Ukraine the most massive violations of human rights in the world today in a speech to the Human Rights Council in Geneva. (20) The United States has a range of tools available to hold the Russian Federation accountable, reduce its war machine, and isolate it economically and diplomatically, including by designating it as a state sponsor of terrorism and imposing corresponding sanctions. 3. Designation of the Russian Federation as a state sponsor of terrorism (a) In general Effective beginning on the date of the enactment of this Act, the Russian Federation shall be deemed to have been determined to be a country the government of which has repeatedly provided support for acts of international terrorism for purposes of— (1) section 1754(c)(1)(A) of the Export Control Reform Act of 2018 ( 50 U.S.C. 4813(c)(1)(A) )