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The U.S. and its allies continue to exert pressure on Russian entities and individuals with additional sanctions on Russia and Belarus.

Today, the United States announced another round of significant sanctions and export control restrictions on Russia and Belarus in response to the deteriorating situation in Ukraine.

President Biden announced significant new export controls and sanctions against Russia in response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The latest sanctions package comes on the heels of a first wave of U.S. sanctions announced over the past several days.

In his speech on Feb. 24, 2022, President Biden announced a second wave of sanctions designed to seriously impact Russia’s financial sector and access to capital. These measures follow an initial sanctions package announced on Feb. 22, 2022, which was targeted at the so-called Donetsk People’s Republic and the Luhansk People’s Republic (collectively, the Covered Regions) as well as the sanctions relating to Nord Stream 2 issued Feb. 23, 2022.

As part of a package of new sanctions on Russia that are effective February 24, 2022, the United States imposed a series of significant new export control measures on exports of many products, software...

Earlier this week, following Russia's aggressive incursion into Ukraine, we reported on the imposition of U.S. sanctions in response — a modest response that reserved the heavier sanctions that have been anticipated...

In response to Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the Biden Administration has implemented significant sanctions on Russia's financial institutions, state-owned companies, and individuals...

With Export Control Reform moving the jurisdiction of non-military firearms violations to the U.S. Department of Commerce, similar investigations are becoming more common in the export-enforcement realm.

Every week, scores of U.S. companies are sold to foreign investors or execute equity financing transactions involving foreign investors. Parties to these transactions must assess...

Data Brokers and National Security Sen. Ron Wyden speaks a town hall in 2017. (Joe Frasier, https://flickr.com/photos/146781514@N05/33115710686; CC BY 2.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/deed.en) In the worlds of data protection and privacy, too often there is a decoupling of national security issues and what might be termed non-national security issues despite the clear interplay between the two realms. Over the past decade, U.S. adversaries have vacuumed up the personal data of m...