RuAssetsWatch: Monitoring Initiatives to Confiscate Russian Assets for the Recovery of Ukraine Detailed description of the situation and analysis – July 2023 The EU took another step towards legislation on the introduction of criminal liability for violations and circumvention of sanctions. MEPs allowed the start of inter-institutional negotiations with the governments of the EU […]
Analytical report «The day has come when we all recognized that information has become another type of weapon»: the architecture of Russian disinformation» Disinformation and propaganda are tools that turn information into a weapon. Nuclear energy is another object of manipulation for the russian media. The example of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant is a […]
RuAssetsWatch: Monitoring Initiatives to Confiscate Russian Assets for the Recovery of Ukraine Detailed description of the situation and analysis – June 2023 — The U.S. Congress has presented the draft Rebuilding Economic Prosperity and Opportunity (REPO) for Ukrainians Act. If adopted, it would introduce a legal mechanism for the confiscation of the Russian Central […]
The city of Energodar and Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP) have been occupied by the Russian army since the early days of the full-scale invasion despite the heroic resistance by local residents. Both the Russian diplomacy and the Russian military have a significant strategic advantage to take the identified dangerous object hostage, since the risks […]
RuAssetsWatch: Monitoring Initiatives to Confiscate Russian Assets for the Recovery of Ukraine Detailed description of the situation and analysis – May 2023 — The Summit of Heads of State and Government of the Council of Europe was held in Reykjavík, resulting in an agreement signed on the creation of the Register of Damage Caused by […]
2023 Energy Security Scoreboard Report (pilot edition) Due to the Russian aggression against Ukraine and its economic effects on wider Europe, energy security has become a priority for both the EU members and Contracting Parties of the Energy Community. Consequently, the need for a proper policy cycle, including assessment, planning, implementation, and monitoring of energy […]
RuAssetsWatch: Monitoring Initiatives to Confiscate Russian Assets for the Recovery of Ukraine Detailed description of the situation and analysis – April 2023 — Ukraine calls on its allies, primarily the United States, to take the lead in creating a special compensation mechanism and adopting appropriate legislation that would allow for the confiscation of frozen […]
Policy Brief – “ATOMIC” Sanctions: No Simple Solutions The issue of sanctions against the Russian nuclear energy industry has become not only a matter of reducing the aggressor’s revenues which it uses to finance military operations. Russia’s significant presence in the energy chains of many countries is already a matter of global nuclear security. The […]
RuAssetsWatch: Monitoring Initiatives to Confiscate Russian Assets for the Recovery of Ukraine Detailed description of the situation and analysis – March 2023 — On March 23, EU leaders met in Brussels. The focus was on the effective implementation of sanctions and counteracting their circumvention by third countries, as well as intensifying efforts to use frozen […]
Second Ukrainian Energy Security Dialogue: Summary Ukrainian Energy Security Dialogue is an annual meeting that unites Ukrainian, European, and American stakeholders to discuss energy security issues of Ukraine and the region. We strive for the energy sector of Ukraine to finally receive proper development and become modern and resistant to new challenges. The Ukrainian Energy […]
Proposals on enhancing the sanctions regime in response to the Russian military aggression against Ukraine (energy sector) Energy revenues play a vital role for Russia in financing the war it has waged in Ukraine. Despite introducing an unprecedented amount of sanctions, which brings Russia to the status of “the world’s most-sanctioned nation”, the current restrictions […]
CUTTING THE TENTACLES OF RUSSIAN ENERGY ‘OCTOPUS’. SUEK DiXi Group continues the series of materials to explore the foreign ties of key Russian energy companies for the elaboration of proposals for expanding sanctions limiting the international influence of the Russian energy sector. (Previous publications: Rosneft, Rosatom, , , , ) In the previous series of analytical papers we have […]