Russian sanctions bill becoming law stays favored at 76%

Name: Russian sanctions bill becoming law stays favored at 76%
Creator: ClearMarket
Published: 2026-09-13T00:00:00.000Z
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Kalshi 76%

record: CMSIG2026091307 | category: momentum-repricing | target: CM-EVT-C6SL3Y8HY3 | published: 2026-09-13

4-bullet brief | narrative

The Kalshi contract prices a Russian sanctions bill becoming law at 76%, resolving via White House.
Continued Russian strikes on Ukrainian civilian infrastructure keep political pressure elevated for legislative action, consistent with the high probability pricing.
The Polymarket contract on the US recognizing Russian sovereignty over Ukraine before 2027 sits at just 3%, suggesting markets see the policy direction as sanctions and support, not accommodation.
Resolution requires White House confirmation of enacted legislation; Senate dynamics (Story 16 notes far-right objections) remain the key procedural risk not yet moving this price below 76%.

atomic briefs | structured for retrieval

[01] news_event

significance

surfaced in the daily Exa news-cycle scan; mechanically matched to an active kalshi market

story: Russia struck Ukrainian power infrastructure while Kyiv targeted a Russian refining hub, escalating the conflict on September 13.exa_search → bloomberg.com · as_of 2026-09-13T13:04:33+00:00
publisher: bloomberg.com
published_at: 2026-09-13T00:00:00.000Z
source_url: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-09-13/russia-strikes-ukraine-power-sites-as-kyiv-targets-refining-hub

[02] pm_response

interp: Kalshi resolves via White House; enacted legislation, not a floor vote, is the resolution trigger.llm_judge_cm_signal_v1

evaluation

News-cycle wires publish on coverage, not editorial selection — the day’s top stories matched to the prediction markets pricing them, so nothing is cherry-picked.

judge_engine: none — deterministic news-cycle scan
judge_verdict: auto_published
judge_confidence: n/a — no judge gate (deterministic publishing)
prompt_template: news_cycle_v1 github · auditable
match_method: entity_slug_match (mechanical)

citation graph

Every wire traces back to the ClearMarket event it is built on, and out to each venue’s own market page — so any figure here can be verified at its source.

internal

cm_event: /events/kxsanctionrussia-26jan01/

external

venue_a: https://kalshi.com/markets/KXSANCTIONRUSSIA-26JAN01-27

programmatic access · four surfaces, same payload

AI grounded search reads embedded JSON-LD in HTML. Developers query REST. Agentic AI clients (Claude Desktop, Cursor) call MCP tools. AI crawlers index via /llms.txt. Same canonical record at every surface.

HTML	browsers, AI grounded search, crawlers (contains embedded JSON-LD `@type: Dataset`)	`https://clearmarket.fyi/signals/russian-sanctions-bill-becomes-law-kalshi-76-2026-09-13/`
JSON	REST API for developers	`https://clearmarket.fyi/signals/russian-sanctions-bill-becomes-law-kalshi-76-2026-09-13.json`
MCP	agentic AI tool call (Claude Desktop, Cursor, Continue)	`clearmarket.get_signal("russian-sanctions-bill-becomes-law-kalshi-76-2026-09-13")`
AGENT	AI crawler discovery index	`/llms.txt`

 PM data: platform APIs (hourly refresh). News context: retrieved with source citations. Editorial judgment: LLM judge with prompt template versioned per wire type. Per-claim provenance inline above; full per-field provenance map at the JSON endpoint under field_provenance.
  raw JSON record · same payload returned by REST endpoint
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  "record_id": "CMSIG2026091307",
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  "detection": "news_cycle",
  "category_tag": "MOMENTUM_REPRICING",
  "secondary_tags": [],
  "pre_news_classification": "concurrent",
  "target_event_id": "CM-EVT-C6SL3Y8HY3",
  "target_event_slug": "kxsanctionrussia-26jan01",
  "event_question": "Will a Russian sanctions bill become law?",
  "bullets": [
    "The Kalshi contract prices a Russian sanctions bill becoming law at 76%, resolving via White House.",
    "Continued Russian strikes on Ukrainian civilian infrastructure keep political pressure elevated for legislative action, consistent with the high probability pricing.",
    "The Polymarket contract on the US recognizing Russian sovereignty over Ukraine before 2027 sits at just 3%, suggesting markets see the policy direction as sanctions and support, not accommodation.",
    "Resolution requires White House confirmation of enacted legislation; Senate dynamics (Story 16 notes far-right objections) remain the key procedural risk not yet moving this price below 76%."
  ],
  "atomic_claims": [
    {
      "type": "news_event",
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          "method": "exa_search",
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          "retrieved_at": "2026-09-13T13:04:33+00:00"
        }
      },
      "significance": {
        "threshold": 5,
        "threshold_unit": "rank",
        "passed": true,
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      },
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      "published_at": "2026-09-13T00:00:00.000Z",
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    },
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      },
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    }
  ],
  "evaluation": {
    "judge_engine": "none — deterministic news-cycle scan",
    "judge_verdict": "auto_published",
    "judge_confidence": null,
    "prompt_template": "news_cycle_v1"
  },
  "citations": {
    "internal": {
      "cm_event": "/events/kxsanctionrussia-26jan01/",
      "related": []
    },
    "external": {
      "venue_a": "https://kalshi.com/markets/KXSANCTIONRUSSIA-26JAN01-27",
      "venue_b": null,
      "benchmark": null
    }
  },
  "sources": [
    {
      "label": "bloomberg.com: Russia Strikes Ukraine Power Sites as Kyiv Targets Refining Hub - Bloo",
      "url": "https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-09-13/russia-strikes-ukraine-power-sites-as-kyiv-targets-refining-hub",
      "published_at": "2026-09-13T00:00:00.000Z",
      "retrieved_at": "2026-09-13T13:04:33+00:00"
    }
  ],
  "field_provenance": {
    "pm_data": "kalshi_api",
    "news_context": "exa_search",
    "editorial_judgment": "cm_signal_llm_judge"
  }
}
 
   PROVENANCE PROTOCOL v0.2 · [direct] venue api · [mediated] grounded web fetch + source url · [derived] computed from listed inputs · [editorial] versioned llm judgment · full spec /schema/provenance/v1

record CMSIG2026091307 published 2026-09-13T00:00:00.000Z signature sha256-c7182366b74… ← underlying event all signals →