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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 – December 2024

In December, the EU adopted its 15th package of sanctions targeting Russia targeting Russia’s shadow fleets and those aiding Russia’s military and technological advancements.  The EU’s 16th package, targeting Russia’s hybrid warfare, is rumoured to…
Oscar Gravell
February 3, 2025

Sanctions Guide – July 2020

Sanctions Guide – July 2020   Key sanctions developments in June include President Trump’s seeming U-turn over plans to sanctions Chinese officials implicated in human rights abuses; the US sanctioning...

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…