... important foreign policy tool. This assumption will be disproved if business does not generally change its behavior and continues violations regardless of the punitive measures imposed by U.S. regulators.
Ivan Timofeev:
Sanctions for the Violation of Sanctions: Businesses on US Treasury Radar
Research Design
To understand the correlation between U.S. regulators’ policy and its impact on the behavior of targeted businesses we must first define and further operationalize what is exactly understood by ‘policy’ ...
... indicative of potential money laundering for the Syrian regime through British banks, via Sleiman.
Syria’s Most Prominent ‘New Guards’
With some families falling out of Al-Assad’s favors, and others exiled or unable to operate due to economic sanctions, a few savvy businessmen found an opportunity to fill the newly created vacuum and establish ties with the Al-Assad government by providing it with much needed services.
With some families falling out of Al-Assad’s favors, and others exiled or unable to operate ...
... tensions, besides inflicting economic damages, will potentially undermine the trust of Russian businessmen in their Western partners, the Italians in particular? Or will such issues remain only at the political level?
Personally, I don’t think that sanctions have destroyed the long-standing relationship of trust between the Italians and Russians. Businessmen from both countries only hope that the situation in Ukraine will gradually normalize and that sanctions will be lifted as soon as early 2016.
Despite tensions between the EU and Russia, Italy is trying to maintain friendly relations with Russia ...
