Blocking sanctions on several entities and individuals, including several major Russian financial institutions and their subsidiaries Russian President Vladimir Putin, and several prominent Russians and their family members certain entities that manage Russia's key sovereign wealth funds and the CEO of one of those entities the company building the Nord Stream 2 pipeline and its CEO and several Belarusian individuals and entities across Belarus' defense and financial institution sectors, effectively restricting their ability to do business in the United States and curtailing their access to the US financial system.A joint decision between the United States, European Commission, France, Germany, Italy, the United Kingdom and Canada to remove several Russian banks from SWIFT, the high-security network supporting transactions and payments in the international financial system.A new Executive Order issued by US President Joseph Biden on Febru( EO 14065), which expands the comprehensive sanctions relating to Ukraine to now include the so-called Donetsk People's Republic ( DNR) and Luhansk People's Republic ( LNR) in addition to Crimea, resulting in severe restrictions on economic activity with these regions, including regulations to implement EO 14065.As of the date of this publication, these actions include: On February 21, 2022, the US government began taking a series of actions in response to Russia's announcement that it would recognize as 'independent' two regions of Ukraine.

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