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Analysis & opinionSeptember 29 2022

Navigating the regulatory web of Russia sanctions

The US, EU and UK have imposed an increasingly complex regime of sanctions on Russia as the war in Ukraine has evolved. Breakdown by Katherine J Stoller, Thomas Donegan, Jacob Fields, Alicia Rose and Chloe Barrowman of international law firm Shearman & Sterling.
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Since the war in Ukraine began in February, the US, EU, UK and others have imposed successive rounds of economic sanctions on Russia.

Each new sanctions package adds further complexity to a multijurisdictional web of cross-border laws and regulations. Moreover, these new measures build on sanctions already in place since Russia’s invasion of Crimea in 2014 and have prompted Russia to issue countersanctions in return.

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