... assistance to Afghanistan amounts to about five billion US dollars, but this sum is not enough to satisfy the needs of the country’s population
Afghanistan may face a food crisis under the Taliban (outlawed in Russia) rule because this movement is under sanctions of both individual states and the United Nations, Andrei Kortunov, Director General of the Russian International Affairs Council, told TASS on Monday.
"A food crisis and famine in Afghanistan are not ruled out. Indeed, Afghanistan is now ...
Washington’s abandonment of ammunition and armory in Afghanistan is in direct violation of the existing UN sanctions regime
The hasty withdrawal of the U.S. forces from Afghanistan attests to both the indifference of the U.S. administration as regards the future of Afghanistan as a state and the neglect for its obligations to its allies. Besides, Washington ...
... against the Taliban now affect the country as a whole
The fall of the Afghan government amid the withdrawal of American troops and the capture of most of Afghanistan by the Taliban raised a number of questions regarding international and unilateral sanctions. Since 1999, the Taliban have been under UN sanctions. Restrictive measures have been applied to the movement by the United States, the European Union and a number of other jurisdictions, its leaders and individual branches. The existing sanctions ...
The effect of US sanctions will be much stronger in comparison with the restrictive measures of the EU and other countries
Another package of economic sanctions has been introduced against Belarus. US President Joe Biden signed a new executive order expanding both the ...
... Control over the province is held by various anti-government and terrorist groups, principally Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham, otherwise known as HTS (formerly Jabhat al-Nusra, associated with al-Qaeda, banned in the Russian Federation).
Humanitarian aid vs. sanctions
Igor Matveev:
Syrian Idlib: What’s Next?
According to UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres, more than 70% of the population of northwestern Syria is in need of humanitarian assistance. These include 2.7 million displaced persons (it is believed ...
The revision of the sanctions policy by the new administration cannot be called a revolution. The institutional arrangement will remain unchanged
In the United States, a revision of the sanctions policy
is in full swing
. Joe Biden’s administration strives to make sanctions ...
The EU has its own sanctions agenda, resorting to restrictive measures far more often than all other countries and international organizations, except for the U.S.
First published: Timofeev, Ivan (2021). Approaching the EU Sanctions Policy: An Experiment with Event Analysis ...
... there is barely enough electricity and fuel for the population to survive, and 80% of citizens remain below the poverty line. In addition, the Syrian economy will not receive serious injections, even from the Gulf countries, due to the policies and sanctions of the United States, which remains the hegemon in the region. However, it is precisely the regional recognition of Damascus that is extremely useful and can be considered as a step towards further stabilisation.
Even before the elections in ...
New sanctions may turn out to be even more serious than the restrictive measures introduced last year in response to the situation around the presidential elections
The detention in Belarus of a plane operated by the Irish company Ryanair has caused a sharp ...
The new US sanctions are still fraught with uncertainty. The key question is whether the United States is imposing restrictions on Russian sovereign debt obligations
The US and the EU have imposed new sanctions against Russia because of the so-called “Navalny ...
