Contents tagged with Sanctions
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The US imposed sanctions against six Duma deputies in the Crimea
The United States imposed sanctions against Russian State Duma Deputies who were elected in the annexed Crimea, as reported on the website of the US Treasury.
The sanctions list indicates the names of six Crimean Deputies: Ruslan Balbek, Dmitry Belik, Ruslan Baharev, Svetlana Savchenko, Andrei Kozenko, and Pavel Shperov.
On November 9th, the European Union included the Deputies elected in the occupied Crimea to the State Duma on the anti-Russian sanctions list. At September's parliamentary …
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Canadian Foreign Ministry calls for maintaining sanctions on Russia
Canadian Foreign Minister Stéphane Dion urged all countries that imposed sanctions against Russia because of its actions against Ukraine to be firm in this matter, and stated that Canada would not ease the sanctions as long as Moscow keeps its current position.
He stated this at a press conference in Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa, according to Reuters.
“Russia’s behavior in Ukraine and Syria is problematic, to say the least. That is why it is important to be very frank in our relations with …
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US State Department: Sanctions against Russia will remain in force
Deputy Speaker of the US State Department Mark Toner said that the sanctions imposed by the United States on Russia for its violation of the sovereignty of Ukraine will remain in effect until the return of the Crimea, Ukrinform reports.
“Our attitude has been and will remain – within the present administration – unchanged. As for the sanctions regarding the Crimea – they will stay in effect until Russia takes its troops out of the Crimea and returns the peninsula to Ukraine,” Toner said. …
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Russian minister: Moscow is willing to lift sanctions if the EU does the same
Russian Minister of Economic Development Alexey Ulyukayev stated that Russia is determined to lift the mutual sanctions with the European Union. However, the European partners themselves have not yet demonstrated good will regarding this issue.
“The best proposal would be a mutual refusal from these restrictions. We would welcome it but unfortunately, our partners, including European partners, have not demonstrated the proper good will,” Ulyukayev said at the meeting with Italian entrepreneurs, …
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Media: EU expands sanctions against Crimean officials
The European Union agreed on the introduction of new personal sanctions against Crimean officials, Reuters reports, indicating that this decision was based on the accession of the Crimea to Russia.
According to the newspaper Delfi, the decision was made at the request of Lithuania and was formally approved at a meeting of the Economic and Financial Affairs Council of the Council of the European Union.
It was noted that the sanctions will affect the six deputies of the State Duma who were …
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Ukrainian Ministry of Defense urges Europeans to strengthen sanctions against the Russian Federation
The Ministry of Defense of Ukraine called on the members of the European Parliament to strengthen sanctions against the Russian Federation. The website of the Ukrainian Defense Agency reported that the Deputy Defense Minister of Ukraine for European Integration, Ihor Dolhov, met with the delegation of the Security and Defense subcommittee of the European Parliament’s Foreign Affairs Committee headed by the committee’s Chairwoman, Anna Fotyga. The representatives of the European Parliament were …
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New Ukrainian sanctions against Russia come into effect
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko’s decree to expand the list of sanctions against Russian citizens and companies has come into effect. The list of individuals affected by sanctions has increased from 347 to 682 people. The list of legal entities has increased from 104 to 271. This was reported by Segodnya.
Individuals added to the list include: the Secretary of the Russian Security Council, Nikolai Patrushev; the Deputy Secretary of the Russian Security Council, Rashid Nurgaliyev; the …
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Russia will not restrict commercial delivery of uranium products to the U.S.
On October 30, the Department of Communications of Russian Rosatom state copporation commented on information that appeared in Western media about restrictions on the supply of uranium products to U.S. companies that are being prepared in response to anti-Russian sanctions imposed by the United States, saying that Russia will not limit the commercial delivery of uranium products to the United States, TASS reported.
“Rosatom State Corporation, with all responsibility, states that from the …
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US Ambassador to NATO: The EU should support sanctions against Russia until the Minsk agreements are implemented
The European Union, following the United States, must maintain sanctions against Russia until the full implementation of the Minsk agreements. This was stated by U.S. Ambassador to NATO Douglas Lute before the start of the meeting of NATO member countries' defense ministers in Brussels.
"We expect that the EU will join us in extending sanctions against Russia, until we see the full implementation of the Minsk agreements," Lute said. He stressed that the OSCE SMM provides convincing evidence of …
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Sanctions against Russia were extended by five countries
Ukraine and four more countries have agreed with the EU Council’s decision to extend sanctions against Russia until the 15th of March 2017. These sanctions were initially imposed because of Russia’s involvement in the violation of Ukraine’s territorial integrity. This was stated in a statement by the High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Federica Mogherini, on the 24th of October.
“The candidate countries of Montenegro and Albania, members of the …