Transit Crisis: Formal Mistakes and Informal Consequences

... cannot be ruled out, which makes establishing a sea route to connect with the Russian exclave necessary. Ivan Timofeev: Closing Loopholes: Outlining the U.S. and EU Sanctions Policy Onward Looking at the problem from a strictly formal point of view, Lithuania’s move may have had legal grounds. The EU sanctions included in the most recent edition of the EU Council Regulation (EU) No 833/2014 “ concerning restrictive measures in view of Russia's actions destabilising the situation in Ukraine”list four groups of goods that cannot be imported into ...