Murmansk seaport on target
The port of Lavna is built to help Russian companies re-orient trade and circumnavigate international sanctions. Now the grand infrastructure object in the Kola Bay is itself put on the sanction list. The Lavna port is one of the many companies that is included in the major new sanctions package announced by the US Treasury […]
Japan expands sanctions list against Russia
The Japanese government announced in a statement that Japan has expanded its sanctions list against Russia and will impose sanctions on 11 individuals, 29 organisations and 3 banks in Russia. Japan’s measures against financial institutions will take effect on 9 February. The sanctions also include a North Korean individual and a Georgian bank for the […]
Additional sanctions from USA to Russia
On 10 January, the United States sanctioned major targets in Russia’s energy sector, the primary source of revenue fueling Russia’s war against Ukraine. The Department of State is imposing sanctions on nearly 80 individuals and entities. Concurrently, the Department of the Treasury is designating more than 150 individuals and entities and individuals and identifying 183 […]
Sanctioned shadow fleet gas carrier zigzags between Norwegian oil platforms
Following the transshipment of natural gas from Russia’s sanctioned Arctic LNG 2 project, the Mulan has been sailing in circles in the North Sea. The 236-meter-long LNG carrier named Mulan has been sailing back and forth in the North Sea for more than a week. According to The Barents Observer, on December 20, the Mulan […]
Russia expanded entry ban list in response to new EU sanctions
Russia expanded its list of European officials banned from entering the country in response to the EU’s latest sanctions package against it. The EU’s new leadership, which took office earlier this month, continued to pursue aggressive policies against Moscow, said the Russian Foreign Ministry. The statement stressed that unilateral restrictive measures remain a tool of […]
US imposes sanctions on Georgian Dream party founder
The US said in a statement regarding the sanctions decision that Bidzina Ivanishvili, the founder and honorary chairman of the Georgian Dream party, has undermined the democratic and European future. “The US is imposing sanctions on Bidzina Grigoris Dze Ivanishvili, the founder and honorary chairman of Georgian Dream. His actions have enabled human rights violations […]
A first from the European Union: Russia sanctions against European citizen
The European Union imposed sanctions on Nils Trost, a Dutch oil trader residing in Switzerland, for violating the price ceiling on oil exports. Trost is reportedly involved in violating the $60 per barrel price ceiling imposed by Western countries. Swiss authorities are also investigating Trost’s company Paramount Energy & Commodities SA. According to a statement […]
Treasury announces new US sanctions on North Korea and Russia
The United States has hit North Korea and Russia with new sanctions targeting Pyongyang’s financial and military support for Moscow as well as its ballistic missile programme. The sanctions, which cover North Korean banks, generals and other officials, as well as Russian oil shipping companies, are the latest US measure aimed at cutting North Korea’s […]
EU lists 26 individuals and 2 entities in view of the situation in Belarus
The European Union has placed 26 Belarusian individuals and 2 organisations on the sanctions list. According to a written statement from the Council of the EU, Belarusian judges, prison administrators and detention centre officials, the head of the medical unit in one of the correctional institutions ‘where some political prisoners face inhumane conditions and are […]
EU adopts largest ever sanctions package against Russia
European Union member states have adopted the most extensive sanctions package against Russia to date. Under the new sanctions, 52 ships from Russia’s ‘shadow fleet’ and dozens of Russian officials were blacklisted. EU member states adopted the most extensive sanctions package against Russia to date at the EU Foreign Affairs Council meeting in Brussels, Belgium. […]