Today, the US Department of State issued a press release indicating that the US Government will be imposing new sanctions on Russia for the use of a “Novichok” nerve agent in an attempt to assassinate UK citizen Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia Skripal, based on its August 6, 2018, determination under the Chemical and Biological Weapons Control and Warfare Elimination Act of 1991 (“CBW Act”) that the Russian Government has used chemical or biological weapons in violation of international law or has used lethal chemical or biological weapons against its own nationals. The CBW Act requires the President to impose sanctions on a foreign country with respect to which such a determination has been made.