... visit to Moscow by the head of European diplomacy. However, the EU's restrictive measures were limited to the use of blocking sanctions against high-ranking officials. They did not damage the economy, and the markets simply ignored them.
A real hail of sanctions fell on the Republic of Belarus. Western pressure on Minsk began in 2020 after the presidential elections and subsequent public protests. Since the incident with the Ryanair flight, the escalation of sanctions has accelerated significantly. The blocking sanctions of the USA,...
... able to play such games with migrants without expecting a tough response. The Belarusian leader has at least two scenarios of retaliatory steps — to “swallow” the new sanctions and keep a low profile, or to amp up the stakes again.
Ivan Timofeev:
Sanctions Against Belarus: A Hybrid Options
The new sanctions against Minsk are notable for several reasons. First, the course of toughening the introduced measures continues. If in 2020, against the background of the presidential elections and public protests, the restrictive ...
... this, a separate list of persons subject to sectoral sanctions (Sectoral Sanctions Individuals) is maintained. They are milder in comparison with blocking sanctions and, in the case of each sector, imply a separate set of restrictive measures. The new sanctions against Belarus are a hybrid of sectoral and blocking sanctions. Specialised executive bodies of the United States are given the opportunity, at their discretion, to block people associated with certain sectors.
That is, this hybrid option is more destructive....
... receive such assistance even without the incident with the plane. The condition of assistance is a democratic transition in the country.
Martin Považan:
Determining Factors of Election Protests in the Post-Soviet Space
The fourth risk is another wave of sanctions against Belarusian officials. Such sanctions were widely used in response to the events in 2020. They play a rather symbolic role and do not do much economic harm. Usually they entail visa bans and the freezing of assets. At the same time, their psychological ...
... on the public and political sector and the electoral system). The United States did not abandon its long-standing course to isolate Belarus. On June 14, 2019, President of the United States Donald Trump submitted a
proposal
to Congress to extend the sanctions against Belarus noting that the “policies of certain members of the Government of Belarus […] pose an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States.”
Nonetheless, there have been certain changes in the ...
