Biden expected to allow sanctions on company building controversial Russian gas pipeline to go into effect

The Biden administration is expected to announce on Wednesday that it will allow sanctions to move forward on the company in charge of building Russia’s Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline, after blocking such sanctions last year using a national security waiver.

The move, described by three US officials, is part of a series of penalties the US and its allies have imposed on Russia this week in response to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s recognition of separatist territories in eastern Ukraine as independent.

The administration decided to move forward with rescinding the national security waiver after Germany on Tuesday announced that it was halting the certification of