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In a study of US sanctions from 1981 to 2000, political scientist Dursan Peksen found sanctions have been counterproductive, failing to improve human rights and instead leading to a further decrease in sanctioned countries' "respect for physical integrity rights, including freedom from disappearances, extrajudicial killings, torture, and ...
US president Joe Biden's statements and a short question and answer session on 24 February 2022. Western countries and others imposed sanctions on Russia after it recognised the independence of its occupied territories, the so-called Donetsk and Luhansk People's Republics, on 21 February 2022, in a speech by Vladimir Putin.
Individuals designated as terrorists by the United States government (6 C, 93 P) Individuals sanctioned by the United States Department of State (1 C, 26 P) Iranian entities subject to U.S. Department of the Treasury sanctions (10 C, 75 P)
Russia sanctioned 43 Canadian citizens on June 27, 2022, barring them from entering the country in a tit-for-tat response to Western sanctions on Moscow. [152] Moscow barred entry to 62 Canadian citizens in response to another expansion of anti-Russian sanctions by Ottawa, the Russian Foreign Ministry said in its statement on August 5, 2022.
The Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) is a financial intelligence and enforcement agency of the United States Treasury Department.It administers and enforces economic and trade sanctions in support of U.S. national security and foreign policy objectives. [2]
The United States of America has imposed economic sanctions on multiple countries, such as France, Great Britain and Japan since the 1800s. Some of the most famous economic sanctions in the history of the United States of America include The Boston Tea Party against the British Parliament, The Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act against the United States of America's trading partners and the 2002 steel ...
The United States, Canada, the European Union, and other European countries (including Ukraine) imposed economic sanctions specifically targeting Crimea. Sanctions prohibit the sale, supply, transfer, or export of goods and technology in several sectors, including services directly related to tourism and infrastructure.
Azza Air Transport, former Cargo airline, in the SDN List. The Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons List, also known as the SDN List, is a United States government sanctions/embargo measure targeting U.S.-designated terrorists, officials and beneficiaries of certain authoritarian regimes, and international criminals (e.g. drug traffickers).