After the Russian annexation of Ukraine's Crimea back in 2014, the EU imposed sanctions against Russia. A new study shows for whom the punitive measures became particularly expensive, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung says.


- The EU imposed various sanctions on Russia since the annexation of the Ukrainian region of the Crimea back in 2014.
- In addition to sanctions against individuals and organizations, there are sanctions against parts of the Russian economy.
The EU economic sanctions on Russia:
- limit access to EU capital markets for major Russian state-owned financial institutions and energy and defense companies;
- ban both the export and import of arms;
- ban the export of dual-use goods for military use to Russia;
- curtail Russia’s access to certain sensitive technologies and services that can be used for oil production and exploration.
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