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To print this article, all you need is to be registered or login on Mondaq.com. April 19, 2021 – On April 15, 2021, the Biden Administration issued a new Executive Order broadly authorizing new sanctions against a number of Russian entities in response to alleged incidents of election interference, malicious cyber activities, corruption, human rights violations, and other violations of international law.  The Executive Order represents the first significant sanctions imposed by the Biden Administration targeting Russia, as well as a departure from the Ukraine-focuse...

To print this article, all you need is to be registered or login on Mondaq.com. OFAC designated seven Russian government officials in response to the August 2020 poisoning and January 2021 imprisonment of opposition leader Aleksey Navalny. According to OFAC, the Novichok nerve agent, which European laboratories identified as responsible for Mr. Navalny's poisoning, has only ever been utilized as a chemical weapon by Russia, and is only accessible to Russian state authorities. Pursuant to Executive Order ("EO") 13661 ("Blocking Property of Additional Persons Contrib...

23 Feb in 10:40 The "Fortuna" pipelayer involved in the construction of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline, as well as its owner, "KBT-Rus", have been added to another U.S. sanctions list, according to the statement published on the website of the U.S. Treasury. Earlier, on January 19, the Donald Trump administration announced that sanctions will imposed on "Fortune" and "KBT-Rus" in accordance with the law "On Countering America's Adversaries Through Sanctions" (CAATSA). The Ministry of Finance clarifies that "Fortuna" and "KVT-Rus" were blacklisted under the Protecting European Energy Securi...

Indian Origin Americans in the Biden Admin Will Not Help India Human rights priority Joseph Biden takes over as the new US President. It won’t be long before the ridiculous South Asian media and, in particular, Indian newspapers, TV channels and the like, begin tom-tomming the appointment on the Biden White House National Security Council staff of former US foreign service officer Sumona Guha as Senior Director, South Asia, and Tarun Chhabra from Georgetown University as Senior Director for Technology and National Security. Elsewhere, Shanthi Kalathil, a journalist, takes over as Coordinat...