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US Sanctions against Russia: The Forecast for 2018

... Russia should have no illusions about a reversal of course in the near future. We must also avoid underestimating the efficiency of the tools to pressure us. These trends need to be thoroughly analyzed and monitored. Everything you want to know about how sanctions work So, the executive authorities will submit at least seven reports to Congress in 2018, which can be divided into three groups. The first group includes reports drawn up mostly by the US Department of the Treasury. The U.S. Treasury is the ...

27.12.2017

Trio in Tehran

... Syrian conflict resolution, noted the effectiveness of cooperation between Russia and Iran. In other words, the last meeting can be regarded as Moscow's response to Washington's threats against Iran. The feeling that Iran and Russia are in the same sanctions boat appeared in 2014 after the accession of the Crimea. As the U.S. pressure increased, the consolidation of the sides based on the counteraction to Washington only intensified. An attempt to bring collective anti-Americanism to a new level ...

17.11.2017

Ousting the JCPOA

... dealing with North Korea,” Trump stated . Rhetorically, this allows Washington to fall back on the axis-of-evil vocabulary. Furthermore, Trump also said in his statement that the previous U.S. administration had partially lifted the anti-Iranian sanctions just as the regime was about to collapse; therefore, reinstating the sanctions now appears to be a logical move aimed at correcting President Obama’s mistakes. It should be noted that Iran has done a much better job at halvanizing the public’s ...

27.10.2017

Discussing Sanctions in New York

On September 26, 2017, New York (USA) hosted a seminar on the impact of sanctions upon the global financial system. On September 26, 2017, New York (USA) hosted a seminar on the impact of sanctions upon the global financial system. Leading representatives of the U.S. financial community attended the event: Adam Shubin,...

04.10.2017

Indifference Threatens Russia–France Relations

The relations framework established during General de Gaulle’s 1966 visit to Russia allowed the countries to withstand the trial by sanctions 300 years of Russia-France diplomatic relations have been marked by a lot of events that seriously affected their development. The interest for Russia seems to have reduced among the French elite, involved in foreign policy making. Leading ...

03.10.2017

Meet-Up with J.P. Morgan Managers

... from London office of J.P. Morgan international investment bank visited Russian International Affairs Council. In RIAC the financial specialists from London discussed the dynamics of Russia’s political risks, the possible influence of the new U.S. sanctions on Russian financial system, preliminary macro-economic results of Russia’s development in the current year, and the probable improvement in relations between Russia and the West in the short- and middle-term perspective in the context of ...

28.09.2017

Hypertension between Iran and the USA

... peaceful regime change in Tehran. Abdolrasool Divsallar: Judging the Effects: The Shaping Iranian Perspective on JCPOA and Trump's Options The harsh rhetoric of the White House and the State Department is accompanied by the regular introduction of new sanctions against Iran. In 2017, almost every month, the U.S. Congress, the U.S. Department of the Treasury and President Trump imposed sanctions against companies and individuals involved in the development of the Iranian missile program related to ...

31.08.2017

In Search of a Common Home

How Russia and Europe Can Co-Exist in the Changing Global Configuration Igor Ivanov: Sanctions upon Sanctions The latest anti-Russian sanctions levied by Washington are unprecedented, and their inherent destructive potential could have severe consequences that extend far beyond U.S.–Russia relations. Whatever the economic fallout for ...

10.08.2017

Sanctions upon Sanctions

The event that some politicians tried to prevent and which others, on the contrary, tried to hasten, has arrived: U.S. President Donald Trump has signed a law that expands the sanctions package against Russia. The event that some politicians tried to prevent and which others, on the contrary, tried to hasten, has arrived: U.S. President Donald Trump has signed a law that expands the sanctions package against Russia. The ...

03.08.2017
 

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