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Our insights into sanctions issues have been published by a range of major publications including Forbes, the South China Morning Post and Business Insider.

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Sanctions Guide – May 2024

In May 2024, the EU introduced a new Russia sanctions programme targeting those responsible for human rights violations in the country.  The EU also carried out several designations related to the dissemination of Russian propaganda…
Oscar Gravell
June 4, 2024

Sanctions Guide – August 2020

Key sanctions developments in July include a number of US measures against China as tensions between them rise; Britain’s launch of an independent sanctions regime; the EU’s first use of…

Sanctions Guide – July 2020

Sanctions Guide – July 2020   Key sanctions developments in June include President Trump’s seeming U-turn over plans to sanctions Chinese officials implicated in human rights abuses; the US sanctioning...

Sanctions Guide – June 2020

Sanctions Guide – June 2020   Key developments this month include heightened US tensions with China over Xinjiang and Hong Kong, Washington’s sanctioning of Iran’s interior minister for alleged human…

Sanctions Guide – April 2020

Sanctions Guide – April 2020   Key developments this month as the US faces critical sanctions decisions over COVID-19 and North Korean non-compliance and America’s ‘maximum pressure’ strategy to bring…

Comment: Zimbabwe and the Sanctions Myth

It has the potential to become one of the more prosperous economies in Africa, given its educated workforce, mineral riches and some of the most fertile farmland on the continent….

Alaco

US Sanctions on Turkey

On 14th October 2019 President Donald Trump issued an Executive Order implementing sanctions against Turkey in response to the latter’s military offensive in Northern Syria.  The US’ Office of Foreign…