On April 6, 2022, the US Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”) added two of Russia’s largest banks, Public Joint Stock Company Sberbank of Russia (“Sberbank”) and Joint Stock Company Alfa Bank (“Alfa-Bank”), and their subsidiaries to the Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons List (“SDN List”). OFAC also issued 3 new and 3 amended Russia-related General Licenses, and added several other parties to the SDN List. President Biden also issued…
On March 11, 2022, the US Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security (“BIS”) imposed restrictions on the exports, reexports, and transfer of luxury goods to all end users in Russia and Belarus and to certain Russian and Belarusian oligarchs and malign actors located worldwide. This action is part of a new round of measures targeting Russia and Belarus announced by the White House today (see here and here) that are being implemented in…
On February 28, 2022, the US Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”) issued a number of additional sanctions measures against Russia. The latest measures include the issuance of (i) Russia-related Directive 4 (“Directive 4”), expanding restrictions on Russian state-controlled financial instructions under the April 2021 Executive Order 14024 (“EO 14024”) and (ii) Russia-related General License No. 8A (“GL 8A”), amending and replacing previous General License No. 8. OFAC also added key Russian state-controlled…
On February 22, 2022, the US Government issued a number of additional sanctions measures against Russia in response to President Putin’s recognition of the independence of the “so-called Donetsk People’s Republic (DNR) and Luhansk People’s Republic in Ukraine (LNR)” and his request to deploy forces to those regions – with President Biden characterizing these developments as “the beginning of a Russian invasion of Ukraine.” The new US sanctions measures build on the comprehensive region-wide sanctions…