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Legal Absurdity from the European Commission

... expressed their negative opinion regarding the possibility of importing private cars and goods used by Russian citizens for their personal needs. It follows from the analysis of the said paragraph that the European Commission has significantly tightened the sanctions regime by arbitrarily extending import restrictions not only to imported goods, but also to goods temporarily imported for personal use. In fact, the Commission established new rules which had not previously been applied and which did not directly ...

25.09.2023

Already Routine: New US Sanctions Against Russian Companies

The regime of Western sanctions against Russia is likely to continue for decades. Therefore, investing in diversification is in many ways a non-alternative strategy The US Treasury has introduced another series of financial blocking sanctions against Russian citizens and ...

21.09.2023

Will Customs in EU Countries Undress Russian Citizens?

... practice becomes widespread, another nail will be driven into the coffin of human ties between Russia and the EU In Russia, the new European Commission (EC) rules on the import of sanctioned goods by Russian citizens has caused quite a stir. The EU sanctions policy against Russia includes a wide range of measures. These include blocking financial sanctions, sectoral restrictions, transport and visa bans, export controls on a wide range of goods, as well as a ban on the import of a number of goods ...

13.09.2023

Battle for Semiconductors: Will There Be Winners?

... complex due to interpenetration of civilian and military capacity. The leakage of U.S. technologies to China occasionally worried the United States, only in the context of these technologies being transferred to Iran, which at that time had been under sanctions for decades. That negligence had lasted until the mid-2010s, when China first published its Made in China 2025 import substitution program for key technologies, followed by Next Generation Artificial Intelligence Development Plan, which recognized ...

05.09.2023

US Sanctions Against Companies from Kyrgyzstan: A New Trend?

Such sanctions are unlikely to ensure the blockade of Russia desired by the Western initiators. This was not achieved even with respect to Iran, whose economy is smaller than Russia's Another package of US sanctions has caused a stir in connection with restrictive ...

14.08.2023

The US and its allies have done more to nationalize the Russian business elite than anyone could have imagined

Washington spent a century trying to spread its ideology to Moscow. Now it has sanctioned our most ardent capitalists. How to even describe this sort of hypocrisy? The imposition of US sanctions against the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs (RSPP) is something of a paradox. The RSPP reflects the interests of businessmen and companies - ie. the locomotives of the capitalist economy. So, by definition, these are the very ...

14.08.2023

Weapons Against Armour. What Do the ’Red Flags’ of Foreign Sanctions Regulators Mean?

... withdrawal from the Western markets, the search for alternative suppliers in friendly countries, as well as reliable mechanisms for financial transactions that are not related to the US dollar or other Western currencies The significant number of sanctions against Russia has naturally led to an increase in the number of attempts to circumvent them. If before the start of the Special Military Operation in Ukraine (SMO) in February 2022, investigations into violations of sanctions regimes against ...

07.08.2023

Eleventh Package of EU Sanctions. What's New?

The main intrigue of the package was restrictive measures against foreign countries and organisations that interact with Russia The European Union has introduced its eleventh package of sanctions against Russia . The main intrigue of the package was restrictive measures against foreign countries and organisations that interact with Russia. It pertains to cooperation in those areas that are one way or another under EU sanctions. In other ...

05.07.2023

RIAC Presents an Anthology Sanctions Policy: Goals, Strategies, Tools

On June 20, 2023, the Interfax Group press center hosted a presentation of the 3rd edition of the anthology Sanctions Policy: Goals, Strategies, Tools prepared by RIAC in cooperation with the X- Compliance project of the Interfax Group On June 20, 2023, the Interfax Group press center hosted a presentation of the 3rd edition of the anthology Sanctions Policy: ...

21.06.2023

US Congress and Sanctions Against Russia

... is still a relative consensus. Apparently, the Administration wants to keep a free hand in negotiations with Russia It’s become common knowledge that since the start of the Special Military Operation (SVO) in Ukraine, an unprecedented amount of sanctions have been imposed on Russia has long been a well-known truth. Equally obvious is the fact that the United States has led the coalition of countries that initiated the sanctions. However, a deeper understanding of the policy of restrictive measures ...

19.06.2023
 

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