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 ...
... prerequisites for mobilizing Syria’s internal resources and expanding Russia’s economic presence
On June 17, the United States began ... ... granted to the administration so that it could prepare secondary sanctions against foreign citizens for cooperating with Damascus ... ... experts thought that the country’s marginalization in the global economy would make it less vulnerable to the pandemic. The authorities ... ... reconstruction effort. The German expert
Muriel Asseburg
notes that the European Union’s consolidated standing is eroded by differences ...
... problematic. Credibility and “shared meanings” are required.
Russia–Belarus relation have taken a permanent place at the top ... ....5 billion at year-end 2018, while its trade turnover with the European Union was $17.3 billion (24.2 percent of the state’s ... ... agricultural products.
Russia is the principal investor in the Belarusian economy. Rosatom is finishing construction of the first Belarus ... ... parties thus far have failed to settle the issue.
The international sanctions against Russia, which are designed in such a way that ...
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...
On June 6, 2018, representatives of Denmark’s Export Credit Agency and the Embassy of Denmark visited Russian International Affairs Council.
On June 6, 2018, representatives of
Denmark’s Export Credit Agency
and the Embassy ... ... were discussed in the course of the meeting: various aspects of relations between Russia and the West, application of new U.S. sanctions against Russia and Russia's response measures, recent developments in the interaction between Russia and the European Union, and the specifics of bilateral Russian-Danish relations. The priorities of Putin’s fourth presidential term,...
Interview with Dr Richard Connolly, Associate Fellow for Russia and Eurasia Programme at Chatham House
With sanctions regime being present since 2014, Russia’s relations with the United States and the European Union have not been easy. Previously, the EU has been mostly in line with sanctions proposed by the US. Taken the possibility ... ... is probably overstated.
But similarly, in certain EU countries and in the US, politicians over there will say that Russia’s economy is in tatters and it’s because of sanctions (the way Barack Obama put it). I don’t think that was true, either. Politicians ...
Andrey Kortunov, Director General of the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC), thinks that greater ... ... anti-terrorist coalition doesn’t exist. Western economic sanctions have been counter-productive since they failed to change ... ... like the one that they had during the Second World War.
3) The European Union (EU) has enforced economic sanctions against Russia ... ...
The sanctions did have a serious negative impact on the Russian economy. However, they failed to change the Russian position in ...