Великобритания расширила санкционный режим против России

Great Britain has expanded the sanctions regime against RUSSIA Now London will be able to punish Russian state-owned companies and private companies in strategic sectors. But specific sanctionsnot yet imposed

On February 10, the British authorities adopted a law significantly expanding the sanctions regime against Russia. Amendments to the law on anti-Russian sanctions came into force today, follows from the official UK Legal Information Gazette.

The legislative change consists in adding to the legal criteria by which Russian individuals and legal entities can be included in the British sanctions list, a radically new and broad criterion: a person involved in "receiving benefits from the Russian government or supporting the Russian government."

Previously, there was only one such criterion: in order for the British authorities to impose sanctions, a person must be involved in actions to “destabilize Ukraine or undermine its territorial integrity, sovereignty or independence.” RBC wrote about the former version of the British law on anti-Russian sanctions here.

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The new criterion is not directly related to Russia's actions towards Ukraine and does not imply a direct connection between "crime" and "punishment". For example, future sanctions could theoretically be imposed on a Russian company from one of the strategic sectors as an incentive for Russia (from the UK's point of view) to stop its destabilizing activities in Ukraine. The stated purpose of the British sanctions remains "to motivate Russia to stop its actions to destabilize Ukraine or undermine its territorial integrity, sovereignty or independence."