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In January 2021, President Biden was sworn into office and for the first time in a decade, Democrats assumed control of both chambers of Congress. Notwithstanding these changes, the...
The State Department revealed on April 5 that previously announced US sanctions on Turkeyâs military-industrial sector would come into effect on April 7 with the publication of a US Federal Register notice.    US sanctions under the CAATSA law, or the âCountering America’s Adversaries Through Sanctions Actâ (Public Law 115-44), were initially announced by former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on December 14, in response to Turkeyâs purchase of the S-400 surface-to-air missile system from Russia. Previously, the three titles of CAATSA had been focused on ...
To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: There’s been a non-stop bombardment of recent export amendments involving China and other “countries of concern” within the last six months. The main driver behind these has been the U.S. Government’s concern about the Chinese national strategy of “military-civil fusion” – using civilian companies to help support Chinese military and intelligence activities. It is believed that U.S. companies that have historically sold products to China’s commercial sector may be drawn unwittingly into supporting the Chinese militar...
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...
US slaps sanctions on 7 Russian officials over attempted assassination of Alexei Navalny Navalny, 44, was sickened by the Russian nerve agent Novichok in an attack that the US and others linked to Putin's security services. PTI 3 March, 2021 9:39 am IST Text Size: A+ Washington: The United States on Tuesday announced sanctions on seven senior Russian officials over the attempted assassination of opposition leader Alexei Navalny using a nerve agent, and his subsequent jailing. The sanctions are the first announced by the Joe Biden administration against assoc...