Maryland State Officials Cut Ties With Russia, Apply Economic Pressure – CBS Baltimore
BALTIMORE (WJZ) — Gov. Larry Hogan and State Comptroller Peter Franchot announced on Monday that they would apply further economic pressure on Moscow by severing all formal and financial ties to Russia.
Hogan told Russian Gov. Aleksander Drozdenko in a letter that he would be terminating Maryland’s sister-state relationship with the Leningrad Oblast—a region of Northwest Russia that is home to one of the country’s greatest art collections.
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Hogan said he made the decision to cut ties with the oblast over the weekend.
Maryland and the Leningrad Oblast forged a relationship in 1993 as part of an effort to advance overall bilateral relations and engage in mutual exchange, Hogan said in the letter. The point of establishing that relationship was to “promote peace and prosperity between communities via local governments,” he said.
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