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Our insights into sanctions issues have been published by a range of major publications including Forbes, the South China Morning Post and Business Insider.

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Sanctions Guide – November 2024

The UK led the way in November 2024 with its largest package of sanctions against Russia in over 18 months.  Meanwhile, the US targeted Russia’s banking sector with the designation of Gazprombank and over 50…
Oscar Gravell
December 6, 2024

Sanctions Guide – June 2020

Sanctions Guide – June 2020   Key developments this month include heightened US tensions with China over Xinjiang and Hong Kong, Washington’s sanctioning of Iran’s interior minister for alleged human…

Sanctions Guide – April 2020

Sanctions Guide – April 2020   Key developments this month as the US faces critical sanctions decisions over COVID-19 and North Korean non-compliance and America’s ‘maximum pressure’ strategy to bring…

Comment: Zimbabwe and the Sanctions Myth

It has the potential to become one of the more prosperous economies in Africa, given its educated workforce, mineral riches and some of the most fertile farmland on the continent….

Alaco

US Sanctions on Turkey

On 14th October 2019 President Donald Trump issued an Executive Order implementing sanctions against Turkey in response to the latter’s military offensive in Northern Syria.  The US’ Office of Foreign…