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Easing sanctions now, with so little progress having been made under the latest Minsk agreement, would amount to a catastrophic collapse in Europe’s impact and credibility – and a major loss for Ukraine.
EU leaders must remain firm and united in ensuring that existing economic sanctions are lifted only if the Minsk agreement is implemented fully.
Given this, rather than weakening sanctions, the EU should work to develop stronger measures aimed at Putin and his cronies, inspired by America’s Magnitsky Act, which targets Russian officials responsible for gross human-rights violations.
In fact, such selective sanctions could be more effective in influencing Russian policy than the more generalized economic restrictions, as they provide an explicit and tangible warning to Russian elites that their impunity ends at the country’s borders.
Beyond sanctions, the EU and the United States must become much more proactive and efficient in combating the massive disinformation campaign that has become a potent weapon in the Kremlin’s “hybrid war” against Russia’s neighbors and the West.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel is absolutely right when she says she sees no reason to roll back sanctions on Russia.
The Lynchpin of AsiaNEW DELHI – Isolated and impoverished by decades of international sanctions, Myanmar (Burma) has emerged in recent months as both a beacon of hope and a potential new Asian flashpoint.
Russian troops have occupied Crimea, and European and American leaders are threatening to impose stiff sanctions on Russia if it does not respect Ukraine’s sovereignty.
Both sides hailed a newfound commitment to high-level exchanges on cyber crime; but the US is about to impose sanctions on Chinese companies that have benefited from egregious hacking.
Yet, beyond military expenditures, Russia is also incurring the costs of lost trade and investment, as well as escalating sanctions, which are more than enough to condemn the country to stagnation for as long as its wars last.
In July 2014, the United States and the European Union imposed sanctions on Russia’s finance, oil and gas, and defense technologies sectors, in response to its military aggression in Ukraine’s Donbas region.
Through financial sanctions, the US can thus starve Russia of foreign investment.
In August 2015, the International Monetary Fund estimated that Western sanctions would immediately reduce Russia’s real (inflation-adjusted) GDP by 1-1.5%.
In the medium term, however, the IMF concluded that sanctions “could lead to a cumulative output loss…of up to 9% of GDP, as lower capital accumulation and technological transfers weaken already declining productivity growth.”
Meanwhile, Russia and Ukraine have been imposing escalating trade sanctions on each another.
With no solution to the Ukraine conflict in sight, sanctions will likely remain in place for the long term.
Sanctions tend to be sticky, because the conflicts that spur them usually multiply and evolve.
For example, in April, the US imposed additional sanctions in response to Russia’s interference in the 2016 US presidential election.
Having already enacted the Countering American Adversaries Through Sanctions Act last year, a bipartisan congressional coalition will soon approve even more severe sanctions, most likely hitting Russian sovereign debt and state-owned financial institutions.
The mere threat of more US sanctions has already roiled the Russian market.
Even now, Hungary and Romania feel peer pressure and face sanctions from their EU partners when they engage in dubious electoral practices, compromise their courts’ independence, or discriminate against minorities.
Though squeezed by low world oil prices and anemic inflows of foreign investment, economic indicators have been moving in the right direction since January 2016, when, in the wake of the 2015 deal limiting Iran’s nuclear program, many international sanctions were lifted.
While inflation remains high, at around 10%, this represents a strong improvement from the heights scaled when sanctions were in place.
Most immediately, Kim’s aim is to pressure Barack Obama’s administration into weakening the US-led sanctions against North Korea, having evidently decided that his dynasty has no future so long as the sanctions remain in place.
Most important, HRW did so from a human-rights perspective, and its statement is worth quoting:“Subjecting people to criminal sanctions for the personal use of drugs, or for possession of drugs for personal use, infringes on their autonomy and right to privacy.
They knew that they could not continue to sustain their power through violence and oppression, as that would ultimately cause their regime to collapse under the weight of international sanctions and isolation.
Negotiations can succeed only if conducted alongside the toughest and broadest possible sanctions on the Russian economy and the provision of effective and extensive help to Ukraine.
Moreover, budget rules should be made more transparent, credible, and enforceable through automatic sanctions against conduct displaying a lack of solidarity.
When these hopes were dashed, the West reacted with stunned disbelief and anger, reinstating sanctions on 156 top Belarusian officials and members of Lukashenko’s family.
The EU has since imposed additional sanctions on judges and other officials involved in punishing protestors, bringing the number of sanctioned individuals to 190.
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