The United States stops allies and partners from easing sanctions against Russia

The United States is sending emissaries around the world to prevent the relaxation of the sanctions regime. This is especially true for countries whose imports to Russia are growing.

The United States is purposefully fighting the erosion of the sanctions regime against Russia, found out The Wall Street Journal . To do this, they without much publicity send officials of the rank of deputy heads of federal agencies to the main partner countries. “Their mission is to share data on ways to circumvent sanctions, quietly threaten punishment against resisting government agencies and companies, and collect information about the routes of delivery of goods to Russia,” the newspaper writes, citing sources in the US administration.

• According to the newspaper, US Undersecretary of the Treasury Wally Adeyemo recently traveled to Brussels, London and Paris in this capacity, and Elizabeth Rosenberg, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Combating the Financing of Terrorism and Financial Crime, went to Japan. The same work is done by officials of a lower rank in the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Trade and the State Department.
• What other countries are in question, the newspaper does not disclose. But he gives a graph according to which Russian imports grew most of all from Belarus, Kazakhstan, Turkey and China.
• China, whose exports to Russia had even increased by the pre-war period, "is able to provide Russia with financial resources and goods that are key to maintaining combat readiness and the economy," the US fears.
• Turkey uses every opportunity to work with Russia, but does not violate sanctions directly, the newspaper writes. An example is the recent refusal to accept Mir cards, "which would give Moscow an important channel of access to the global financial system."
• A separate area of ​​US efforts is the weak application and possible circumvention of financial sanctions against Russia and Russians in Arab countries and some European countries (Austria, the Czech Republic and Switzerland). Among the banks, only the Austrian Raiffeisen is mentioned, since the beginning of the war it is still looking at options for leaving Russia. A spokesperson for the bank told the WSJ that it had already cut its ruble loan portfolio by 25%.