On August 23rd, 2024, the U.S. Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), the U.S. Department of State (State), and the Commerce Department's Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) acted against Russia's...

Lo scorso 5 giugno il Consiglio dell'Unione Europea ha modificato la lista delle persone fisiche interessate dalle misure restrittive con l'obiettivo di aumentare la pressione sul governo della Federazione russa

The Decree of the President of the Russian Federation No. 560 bans or restricts foreign trade transactions involving import to Russia of certain agricultural products.

After all initiatives for drastic countermeasures to respond to the US/EU sanctions ground to a halt for one year, the legislator has now resumed the proposal.

According to the Act, it has come into force from the date of its official publication, i.e. from 4 June 2018. At the same time, no further actions with the Bill on introduction of criminal liability...

On 24 February 2025, the European Union adopted the 16th Russia sanctions package.

Associate Menelaos Karampetsos penned an article for Financier Worldwide Magazine's September issue examining the sanctions enacted by the G7 following Russia's...

On September 4, 2024, the U.S. Department of the Treasury Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) issued an alert that Russian companies are attempting to evade U.S. sanctions by creating...

At this point, the timeline for adoption and implementation of the Draft Law is not clear. The first hearing is scheduled on May 8, 2018.

On November 2, 2023, the U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control ("OFAC") designated 130 new Russian entities and individuals...

On October 6, 2022, the EU agreed to implement a new package of Russia sanctions in response to Russia's annexation of the Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson, and Zaporizhzhia regions...

At the end of October 2018, the Federal Antimonopoly Service of the FAS presented a draft law to the Ministry of Economic Development aimed at partially legalising parallel imports of goods in Russia.

Russia is member of the Eurasian Economic Union and abides by its rules. Last November, the Eurasian Economic Commission promulgated a decision of November 01, 2016 No. 133 changing the procedure of application of the mechanism . . .

Crimea and Sevastopol became integral parts of the Russian Federation as two separate new Russian regions.

Following the talks between President Putin and President Erdogan in the beginning of May 2017, the President of Russia today (May 31) signed a decree...

The OverRuled: Russia Trade Controls Resource Center has been updated with the following actions...

The Russian government is preparing to introduce new counter-measures in response to US and EU sanctions.

The Council of the European Union, through EU Reg. 2023/1216 of June 23, 2023, adopted the 11th package of sanctions against Russia.

Today the U.S. Department of Commerce's Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) published a final rule imposing additional sanctions and clarifying existing controls...

As mentioned in our previous briefing (Aviation: Guidance on ‘No Re-Export to Russia' clauses), the 12th package of sanctions against Russia introduced Article 12g into Council Regulation (EU) No 833/2014...