Restrictive measures on additional 106 Generals and 88 entities. The new listings target the military and defence sectors, members of the judiciary, local politicians and people responsible for the illegal deportation and military re-education of Ukrainian children. Further restrictions on unmanned aerial vehicles (drones) and on exports of goods which contribute, in particular, to the enhancement of Russian industrial capabilities.
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12th package of sanctions against Russia
These measures target high-value sectors of the Russian economy and make it more difficult to circumvent EU sanctions, including: prohibition on the direct or indirect import, purchase or transfer of diamonds including jewellery from Russia;
no-Russia clause, a new contractual clause which applies to EU exporters and bans the re-exportation to Russia and re-exportation for use in Russia of certain goods;
strengthening bilateral and multilateral cooperation with third countries to impede sanctions’ circumvention;
tighter export restrictions concerning dual use goods and technologies;
enforcement of oil price cap;
further restrictions on imports of goods which generate significant revenues for Russia such as pig iron, copper and aluminium wires, foil tubes and pipes;
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New general sanctions, export bans; import ban on diamonds
A total of 35 Generals and 44 entities in Russia, Ukraine or the UAE were designated as sanctioned parties in Japan.
57 entities in Russia and 6 entities in other countries were designated as specified entities, to whom exports of any items from Japan are prohibited.
Japan will introduce a new import ban on non-industrial diamonds that are shipped from Russia from January 1, 2024. HS codes of those prohibited items are; 7102.10, 7102.31, and 7102.39. -
275 targets and dual-use supply chains sanctioned; industrial-inputs and logistics restrictions
Blocking sanctions on 275 additional targets; designations on evasion networks in 17 countries supplying advanced technology, machinery, explosives precursors, and microelectronics; measures against domestic Russian importers and manufacturers of defense hardware, aerospace systems, and key industrial inputs; sanctions on foreign logistics, Finance-technology, trust-and-corporate-service providers, and other facilitators of procurement and money flows; restrictions on suppliers of dual-use goods, strategic metals, marine equipment, and mining assets; asset freezes and transaction bans enforced under the 50-percent-ownership rule, with secondary-sanctions risk for foreign Finance institutions.
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New Russian generals and entities sanctioned, expands export and service bans
Sanctions for additional 17 Generals and 78 entities related to the Russian Federation and 7 Generals related to annexation, subjecting them to restrictions on payments and capital transactions. Effective 2 June 2023, the Japanese government also introduced an export ban to 80 designated entities of the Russian Federation.
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Architecture & engineering services export ban; 22 Generals and 104 entities blocked; sovereign-asset reporting rule
OFAC designates 22 Generals and 104 entities for sanctions evasion, Finance-services activity, defence supply and future energy extraction; identifies the architecture, engineering, construction, manufacturing and transportation sectors as sanctionable under Executive Order 14024; bans the export, re-export, sale or supply of US architecture and engineering services to Russia from 18 June 2023; amends Directive 4 to compel US holders of Russian sovereign assets to report them; and blocks additional Russian banks, wealth-management intermediaries, metals-and-mining, technology, electronics, energy-research, drilling-equipment and procurement-network firms, together with the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service, placing all on the SDN List and subjecting their US-linked property and transactions to full blocking.
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Additional banks blocked; metals-and-mining sector determined sanctionable
OFAC invokes Executive Order 14024 to bar over a dozen additional Russian banks, wealth-management intermediaries, sanctions-evasion networks, metals-and-mining, carbon-fibre, aerospace, electronics, technology and defence-industrial firms from all US dealings; designates the metals-and-mining sector itself as sanctionable; blocks associated property and interests
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Snactioned Russian generals and entities, export bans on military-related goods
The Japanese government designated an additional 22 Generals and 3 entities related to the Russian Federation and 14 Generals connected with the eastern and southern part of Ukraine, subjecting them to restrictions. Effective 3 February 2023, the Japanese government introduced an export ban to 49 designated entities of the Russian Federation as listed by the Notice of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs dated 27 January 2023. Also effective 3 February 2023, Japan introduced an export ban on military reinforcement related commodity goods and other items to the Russian Federation.
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Wagner sanctions; global network and defence entities blocked
PMC Wagner redesignated as a Significant Transnational Criminal Organization under EO 13581/13863; nine Wagner-linked entities and Generals in China, the CAR and the UAE added to the SDN List; further Russian defence-industrial entities and Putin-associated officials designated under EO 14024, all subject to full blocking sanctions.
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9th package of sanctions against Russia
The new measures include bans on:
exports of drone engines;
exports of dual-use goods and technology;
investments in the mining sector;
transactions with the Russian Regional Development Bank;
the provision of advertising, market research and public opinion polling services.