The UK Government has announced the introduction of a new unit - the Office of Trade Sanctions Implementation (OTSI) - which will be responsible for the civil enforcement of trade sanctions, including those against Russia. OTSI will help businesses comply with sanctions, investigate potential breach...
These individuals and entity have been added to the Annex of the Council Decision 2024/1508 for conducting propaganda actions targeted at civil society in the EU and its neighbouring countries, distorting and manipulating the facts in order to justify and support Russia's war of aggression against ...
USA. Sure are a lot of pieces like this:America on cusp of a Civil War. Orthis;this;this; and, especially,this. "For those who have followed events outside the United States during the past few decades, much of this sounds familiar. We’ve seen it before – inflicted on other countr...
Blinken described Russia's civil society crackdown as a "systematic muzzling" and also urged U.N.-appointed investigators to continue documenting Russia's Ukraine abuses to provide "an impartial record of what's occurring, and a foundation for national and international efforts to hold perpetrators...
Russia had already begun mobilizing men in occupied regions to fight in the war against Ukraine after "annexing" the regions, a move Ukraine and its allies have condemned as illegal. Martial law means the civil administrations in those regions are now essentially a military ones. ...
Franak Viačorka, a senior aide to opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, told AP the exiled activist is urgently looking for ways “to keep afloat the independent media and the civil society of Belarus, which has run into a new challenge.” There was no immediate response to a ...
(click on date for link): June 29, 2023 Anatol Lieven, Eurasia director of the Quincy Institute, on Prigozhin’s aborted uprising in Russia and Putin’s status • Samuel Bazzi, co-author of this paper, on the effects of the white migration out of the South after the Civil War on ...
Nadezhdin, a former Russian lawmaker and outspoken critic of Russia's war in Ukraine, submitted 105,000 signatures to the CEC last week that were in support of his candidacy. Boris Nadezhdin, a representative of Civil Initiative political party who plans to run for Russian president in the...
Thu, Mar 2 202311:37 AM EST More than 7 million children in need due to Russia's war in Ukraine A man holds a child as he flees a Ukrainian city, on March 7, 2022. Aris Messinis | AFP | Getty Images The U.N. Children's Fund, or UNICEF, said that more than 7 million childre...
The serfs from private estates were given less land than they needed to survive, which led to civil unrest. Key Terms Alexander II: The Tsar of Russia from March 2, 1855, until his assassination in 1881. He was also the King of Poland and the Grand Duke of Finland. His most significant...