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Sanctions Guide – February 2024

February saw Western governments react to the anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, as well as the death of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, with a new raft of sanctions.  These principally target the country’s…
Dom Dixey
March 5, 2024

Sanctions Guide – October 2022

This month has seen the US, EU and UK all respond to Russia’s organisation of referenda in occupied Ukraine and formal annexation of the Luhansk and Donetsk regions with a…

Sanctions Guide – September 2022

This month has seen – for the first time since February – no substantive changes to the US, UK and EU sanctions programs, including to measures related to Russia’s invasion…

Sanctions Guide – August 2022

This month, changes to the main Western sanctions programs have focussed on efforts to shore up existing statutes in relation to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine by closing loopholes and extending…

Sanctions Guide – July 2022

This month, changes to the main Western sanctions programs have continued to focus on targeting Russian trade flows, financial networks, senior Russian government and military figures, as well as their…

Sanctions Guide – June 2022

This month, changes to the main Western sanctions programs have continued to focus on undermining strategic sectors of the Russian economy via the imposition of trade restrictions, as well the…

Sanctions Guide – May 2022

Key developments in Western sanctions programmes over the past month have involved harsher measures targeting the Russian economy in response to its invasion of Ukraine.  These have included further trade…

Sanctions Guide – April 2022

Following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on 24th February 2022, March has seen western powers continue to coordinate their wide-ranging response, designed to cripple the Russian economy via the targeting of…

Russia Sanctions Watch

Russian Sanctions Watch   Last Updated 5th April 2022   This list is intended to provide an overview of the highest profile individuals and entities sanctioned by the UK, US,…

Ukraine Update – 1st March

By James Barr   Since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on 24th February 2022, the EU, UK and US, alongside other Western partners, have imposed increasingly severe and wide-ranging sanctions against…