Following the recent, closely watched elections in Belarus, in which President Alexander Lukashenko was elected to his fifth term in office, both the US and EU adopted measures suspending some economic sanctions against the country. On 30 October 2015, the Council published Council Implementing Regulation 2015/1948 which suspends financial sanctions, including asset freezes, imposed against … Continue Reading
On 6 October, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) annulled the inclusion in the EU sanctions list of Yury Chyzh and companies linked to him in the Triple Group, as well as the Belarus football club Dinamo Minsk. The Court held that there was insufficient evidence that Mr Chyzh financially supports the … Continue Reading
