Democrats trying to keep sanctions against Russian oligarch

WASHINGTON — Senate Democrats intend to force a vote this week on the Trump administration’s move to lift sanctions against companies controlled by an influential Russian oligarch, intensifying a new line of scrutiny of the administration’s handling of Russia policy.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer of New York said the sanctions on the business empire of Oleg Deripaska should remain in place and that a deal negotiated by the Treasury Department to remove them was “flawed and fails to sufficiently limit” Deripaska’s “control and influence of these companies.