sanctions against russia

1. The positive side. It seems to be part of Trump’s negotiation strategy — either you agree to some form of peace deal, or the promised 500% tariffs (proposed by Lindsey Graham) will be imposed on all goods from countries that purchase Russian oil. Formally, a similar logic was applied to Canada and Mexico. 2. The negative side. The U.S. […]

After today’s discouraging negotiations in Moscow between the American and Russian delegations, Donald Trump pulled his first “trump card” from his sleeve. The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s General License 8L has been terminated! Even American media outlets did not mention this General License 8L, let alone Ukrainian ones. I doubt that even the Ukrainian government was aware of this […]

The European Union ambassadors agreed on the 16th package of sanctions in response to Russia’s full-scale aggression against Ukraine on Wednesday, February 19. Ricard Jozwiak, Europe editor for Radio Free Europe, reported this on X (Twitter), as cited by European Pravda. According to him, the new sanctions package will be officially approved by the EU foreign ministers next Monday, February […]

The Court of the European Union has ruled against Russian oligarchs Gennady Timchenko, Elena Timchenko, Mikhail Fridman, Petr Aven, and German Khan, denying their appeal to lift European sanctions imposed on them. The decision was announced by the EU Court on September 11, according to Radio Free Europe. It is also noted that the National Settlement Depository of Russia, which […]

Did everyone read that Russia has been significantly reducing its maritime oil exports lately? With references to well-known Western agencies and analytical centers? – This is not entirely true, unfortunately. Andrii Klymenko investigates. The facts from our monitoring results show the following: Exports of Russian crude oil from Black Sea ports over the past 4 months of 2024 were as […]

Top “peacemakers”: Turkey – 2nd in sea imports of Russian bloody crude oil in May 2024 and absolute world champion in sea imports of Russian petroleum products. Andrii Klymenko investigates. In May 2024, Turkey imported – according to our own monitoring – 2.5 million tons of crude oil: from Russian ports of the Baltic Sea (2.1 million tons) and the […]

What could be the new EU and US sanctions policy against Russia – Ukrainian expert Andriy Klymenko’s opinion. Since the new sanctions packages by our allies will be announced shortly, let’s conduct an experiment, by comparing them to the vision of the Monitoring Group of the Black Sea Institute for Strategic Studies . Here is the essence. Detailed explanations for […]