In its continuing response to Russia’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine, the U.S. government has deployed a whole-of-government approach to impose sanctions and tighter export controls on Russia and Belarus. This alert summarizes...more
1/30/2025
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In a continued effort to hinder Russia’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine, the U.S. government has deployed a whole-of-government approach to impose sanctions and tighter export controls on Russia and Belarus. This alert...more
1/30/2025
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In its continuing response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the U.S. government has deployed a whole-of-government approach to impose sanctions and tighter export controls on Russia. This alert summarizes key economic...more
8/30/2024
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In a continued effort to hinder Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the U.S. government has deployed a whole-of-government approach to impose sanctions and tighter export controls on Russia. ...more
8/30/2024
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In response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the U.S. government has deployed a whole-of-government approach to impose sanctions and tighter export controls on Russia. This alert summarizes key economic sanctions imposed by...more
8/23/2024
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In response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the U.S. government has deployed a whole-of-government approach to impose sanctions and tighter export controls on Russia. ...more
5/22/2024
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In response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the U.S. government has deployed a whole-of-government approach to impose sanctions and tighter export controls on Russia. This alert summarizes key economic sanctions imposed by...more
5/3/2024
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In response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the U.S. government has deployed a whole-of-government approach to impose sanctions and tighter export controls on Russia. This alert summarizes the key export restrictions...more
3/5/2024
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In response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the U.S. government has deployed a whole-of-government approach to impose sanctions and tighter export controls on Russia. This alert summarizes the key export restrictions...more
2/23/2024
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In response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the U.S. government has deployed a whole-of-government approach to impose sanctions and tighter export controls on Russia. This alert summarizes key economic sanctions imposed by...more
2/23/2024
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In response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the U.S. government has deployed a whole-of-government approach to impose sanctions and tighter export controls on Russia. This alert summarizes key economic sanctions imposed by...more
1/25/2024
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In response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the U.S. government has deployed a whole-of-government approach to impose sanctions and tighter export controls on Russia. This alert summarizes key economic sanctions imposed by...more
12/14/2023
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In response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the U.S. government has deployed a whole-of-government approach to impose sanctions and tighter export controls on Russia. This alert summarizes key economic sanctions imposed by...more
10/6/2023
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In response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the U.S. government has deployed a whole-of-government approach to impose sanctions and tighter export controls on Russia since February 24, 2022....more
10/5/2023
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Current as of June 29, 2023 -
This update discusses the May 19, 2023 and subsequent actions taken by the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) in response to the continued aggression of...more
6/30/2023
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The U.S. government recently has taken several actions targeting Iran and Iranian entities for contributing to Russia’s military and defense industrial base to address Russia’s use of Iranian unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs)...more
3/28/2023
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Unmanned Aircraft Systems
This update outlines the actions taken by U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) on Feb. 24, 2023, the one-year anniversary of the invasion of Ukraine by the Russian Federation (Russia)....more
3/14/2023
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This update addresses the full implementation of the price cap policy for crude oil and petroleum products of Russian origin by the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC). On Feb. 3, OFAC...more
2/21/2023
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UPDATE – December 2022 was another busy month for Entity List additions by BIS.
Effective Dec. 21, 2022, the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) further tightened controls on the Wagner...more
1/19/2023
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This update includes the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control’s (OFAC) recent actions regarding the Russian seaborne oil price cap policy aimed at maintaining the supply of Russian oil to the...more
1/11/2023
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