Tag: Sanctions
Coup sanctions plunge Niamey into the dark – EURACTIV.com
The long-suffering people of Niger’s capital, Niamey, are used to intermittent power cuts. But since the coup d’état one week ago, interminable blackouts have tested their patience to the limit.
Faced with hours of enforced downtime every day, the poorer districts of the capital erupt into cheers of relief when lights, fridges and tools finally hum back into life.
In the Dan Zama area, the electric sewing machines in Issa Adamou’s workshop are silent. Their owner idly swats at mosquitoes
What China really thinks about Ukraine – POLITICO
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Mark Leonard is co-founder and director of the European Council on Foreign Relations, and he is the author of “The Age of Unpeace.”
What does China really think about Ukraine? That question has been nagging away at Ukrainian minds — as well as their supporters in the West.
Some may have hoped to get answers at the recently held, and grandly named, World Peace Forum (WPF) in Beijing —
EU bans drone sales, hits ‘propagandists’ in new Belarus sanctions – EURACTIV.com
The EU on Thursday (3 August) banned drone sales to Belarus and added prominent state TV presenters to its sanctions list over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and Minsk’s crackdown on opposition.
Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko is the closest ally of Russia’s President Vladimir Putin and has allowed his country to be used as a staging post for Moscow’s assault on Ukraine.
The EU has already imposed repeated rounds of sanctions on Minsk over Lukashenko’s brutal repression of the opposition since
Drive a Lada, Putin tells Russian business chiefs – POLITICO
Foreign cars are out; Russian motors are in.
That was the message from Russian President Vladimir Putin to officials Thursday during a meeting with the heads of manufacturing businesses, reported state-run news agency TASS.
“Ministries, agencies, and the administration of affairs have asked to continue [purchases], to emphasize, in fact, foreign-made cars, to continue this practise,” Putin said. “I said that this should be absolutely excluded and all officials of the country should drive domestic cars.”
Russia’s car market has
Poland adopts amended Kremlin influence law – POLITICO
Poland’s President Andrzej Duda late Wednesday signed off on a bill creating a special body to probe Russian influence in Polish politics which critics say is unconstitutional and could be used to intimidate political opponents.
Backed by the ruling right-wing Law and Justice (PiS) party, the amended law was approved last week by Poland’s parliament with a narrow 235-214 majority.
The law allows the appointment of a nine-member commission by parliament — where PiS has a majority — who will
US limits visa waiver for Hungarians – POLITICO
The United States on Tuesday sharply limited Hungary’s participation in its visa waiver program over security concerns regarding new passports issued between 2011 and 2020.
Under the American Visa Waiver Program, citizens of participating countries can travel to the U.S. for tourism or business for up to 90 days without a visa, and simply need a so-called Electronic System for Travel Authorization (ESTA).
But starting Tuesday, ESTA validity for Hungarian passport holders will be reduced from two years to one,
US sanctions four Bosnian Serb top officials for undermining peace deal – EURACTIV.com
The United States on Monday (31 July) imposed sanctions against four top Bosnian Serb officials, including the Serb member of the country’s presidency, for undermining a US-sponsored peace deal that ended the Balkan country’s war in the 1990s.
Bosnia’s presidency member Zeljka Cvijanovic, along with the prime minister, justice minister and parliament speaker of the Serb Republic, facilitated the passage of a law that undermines the Bosnian constitution, US State Department spokesman Matthew Miller said in a statement.
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Intelligence report accuses China of acting as sanctions backdoor for Russia
China has acted as a backdoor for Russia to conduct business and obtain much-needed technology to continue its invasion in Ukraine, thereby bypassing Western sanctions, according to a new intelligence report.
“Of course, Xi Jinping is helping out his dear friend Vladimir Putin,” Rebekah Koffler, president of Doctrine & Strategy Consulting and a former Defense Intelligence Agency officer, told Fox News Digital.
“Beijing is highly motivated to keep the Russia-Ukraine war going because two of China’s top geopolitical adversaries —
Niger Coup: West African Leaders Impose Sanctions and Threaten Military Action
West African leaders on Sunday threatened military action against Niger, where soldiers seized power in a coup on Wednesday, unless the country’s democratically elected president was restored to office within a week.
The demand was issued by the Economic Community of West African States, or ECOWAS, the 15-member regional bloc, after a crisis summit meeting in Nigeria. It echoed earlier calls by the United States and France, major security allies of Niger, threatening to cut aid and military ties unless
Georgia’s EU dreams live or die with Mikheil Saakashvili – POLITICO
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TBILISI, Georgia — Almost every day, Giuli Alasania makes the drive down a dusty highway through the Georgian capital to visit her son, former President Mikheil Saakashvili, in hospital.
“It’s ironic,” she says, fussing over the plastic pots of stewed beans and salads she is bringing for his lunch, “when he was president, he built this clinic. Now he’s dying in it.”
Ailing and imprisoned, Saakashvili holds Georgia’s future