The latest wave of sanctions does not bring qualitative changes—their impact on the Russian economy and its relations with foreign partners is unlikely to be fundamental
Amid the second anniversary of the start of the Special Military Operation (SVO) in Ukraine, a number of Western countries and associations launched a new set of sanctions ...
The Russia-Ukraine conflict is the most radical international political change to date, ... ... increasingly moving towards opposing camps; economically, by global fragmentation, sanctions, and regionalization of the global economy; security-wise, by the highly dangerous slide from a “cold” to a “hot”... ... affects China–Europe relations since China does not Russia, contrary to what the European Union demands, putting China in a more difficult situation.
Beijing greatly...
The next packages will be less spectacular, but they will be detrimental to specific businesses and areas of the economy
Oil and KAMAZ
The Official Journal of the European Union
has published
decisions and regulations included into the sixth package of anti-Russian sanctions. The release of the new legal framework has been postponed several times on account of disagreements among the EU countries, with the most sensitive issue being the ban on Russian oil imports. Brussels, however, managed to reach consensus after ...
Although sanctions have affected the Russian economy, it continues to grow and become resilient towards increased trade barriers
Since 2014, Russian and American diplomacy has been defined by economic sanctions. This has become the default, expected option for U.S. policymakers—but Russia has ...
... mobilizing Syria’s internal resources and expanding Russia’s economic presence
On June 17, the United ... ... administration so that it could prepare secondary sanctions against foreign citizens for cooperating ... ... that the country’s marginalization in the global economy would make it less vulnerable to the pandemic.... ... to have been placed under house arrest for his refusal to donate the bulk of his 5-billion-dollar fortune ... ... The German expert
Muriel Asseburg
notes that the European Union’s consolidated standing is eroded ...
Russia should not necessarily wait for the Europeans to join its rebuilding efforts
As the United States eyes
new sanctions
on Syria, Russia increasingly finds it needs to work out solutions that would ... ... under Assad Jr. Syria embarked on the capitalist path, the progress toward the reformed economy was uneven. Many things were also backsliding under the influence from outside... ... Syrian reconstruction mainly in terms of rebuilding the damaged physical infrastructure, European Union states link the reconstruction efforts to political transition.
Meanwhile...
Andrey Kortunov, Director General of the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC), thinks ... ... anti-terrorist coalition doesn’t exist. Western economic sanctions have been counter-productive since they failed ... ... popular perception however, in Europe as well as in the USA, looked more positive. Does it mean there’s ... ... that they had during the Second World War.
3) The European Union (EU) has enforced economic sanctions ... ... did have a serious negative impact on the Russian economy. However, they failed to change the Russian ...