Japan also joins the smaller group of countries imposing sanctions on Belarus for its part in the invasion of Ukraine. Taiwan Although it has not specified which measures it will take, Taiwan's announcement it will join global sanctions against Russia is significant. ...
Sanctions against Russia have dominated the international sanctions landscape since the country invaded Ukraine in 2022 (although sanctions have been present in some form since 2014 owing to Russian aggression in the region). The US, UK, and EU, among others, have imposed measures on Russia, incl...
On 3 June 2022, the EU adopted a new round of sanctions against Russia and Belarus, banning the purchase, import or transfer into the EU of crude oil and petroleum products originating in Russia or being exported from that country, as well as certain services related to thei...
Once they bring the cars to the border, they leave them there in a set of car parks where they sit for a few days until the necessary paperwork is completed. That paperwork is not without its own complications: after European states imposed sanctions, Georgia introduced its ...
The fifteen-member Security Council was established after the Second World War with the power to enforce the UN charter, regulate military action and impose sanctions against member states. It consists of fifteen members, five of which are “permanent” and have the power to unilaterally veto any...
Russian President Vladimir Putin gave his annual state of the nation address, focusing primarily on domestic issues. While many expected the Russian leader to make important announcements on the future of the Russia-Belarus Union State, as well as on the conflict in eastern Ukraine's Donbass regio...
ALSO ON RT.COMPompeo says US may impose sanctions & suspend oil deliveries for Belarus amid post-election crackdown “The difference between the US and these authoritarian regimes couldn’t be more clear,” Pompeo insisted, reminding his interviewer, “we have the rule of law, we have the fre...
Tensions have been further exacerbated by Russia’s war in Ukraine and the West’s imposition of sanctions against Russia and Belarus. In Lithuania, there have been proposals to block the transit of Kaliningrad because of the war in Ukraine. And although Lithuanian state ...
Belarus of a Ryanair flight from Athens to Vilnius to arrest a dissident journalist, Roman Protasevich. His arrest triggered European Union sanctions against Belarus, to which Belarus president Alexander Lukashenko responded by stating that he would open Belarus’ border to migrants by facilitating ...
Several of these have a large neighbor that dominates their international flows: South Africa for Zimbabwe, Namibia, Botswana, and Eswatini; Russia for Belarus and Uzbekistan; Mainland China for Hong Kong; and the United States for Mexico. Some have also been subjected to international sanctions ...