text: Our policies toward Russia require urgent reexamination. Congress has a particular role to play. Legislation I'm offering includes the following components:
  It provides for loan guarantees for Ukraine, consistent with the $1 billion announced by the Obama administration in recent days and mirroring just-passed House legislation.
  It directs the Obama administration to assist the Ukrainian government in identifying, securing and recovering assets linked to acts of corruption by former prime minister Viktor Yanukovych, members of his family or other former or current Ukrainian government officials.
  It authorizes $50 million for democracy, governance and civil society assistance and $100 million for enhanced security cooperation for Ukraine and other states in Central and Eastern Europe.
  It provides for additional sanctions, complementing the president's executive order, against Ukrainians and Russians alike responsible for violence and serious human rights abuses against anti-government protesters and those responsible for undermining the peace, security, stability, sovereignty or territorial integrity of Ukraine.
  It includes needed reforms to the United States' participation in the International Monetary Fund, which would allow Washington to leverage significant support from the IMF for Ukraine today and for similar crises in the future.
  Russian actions at home and abroad must be viewed in a broader context, not as isolated incidents but as connected events in a troubling pattern of behavior that cannot continue unchecked.
  Ukrainian sovereignty cannot be violated for looking westward and embracing ideals rooted in freedom.
  In Ukraine and the surrounding region, the United States has spent millions of dollars promoting democracy and good governance. These are ideals we must always promote and on which we will never compromise.
  Less than six months ago, in an op-ed about the unfolding disaster in Syria, Putin admonished his American audience: "We must stop using the language of force and return to the path of civilized diplomatic and political settlement."
  Robert Menendez, a Democrat, represents New Jersey in the Senate, where he is chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee.