Strengthening Sanctions Against the Russian Federation: Updates in Action Plan 2.0

Members of the International Working Group on Russian Sanctions discuss and answer questions about the group's new white paper, "Action Plan 2.0 on Strengthening Sanctions against the Russian Federation."
Michael McFaul, the director of the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford University, moderated this discussion.
Read the full white paper here: fsi9-prod.s3.us-west-1.amazon...
Working Group Participants:
Anders Åslund, Senior Fellow, Stockholm Free World Forum
Andriy Boytsun, Founder and Editor of the Ukrainian SOE Weekly; Independent Corporate Governance Consultant; Former Member of the Strategic Advisory Group for Supporting Ukrainian Reforms
Benjamin Hilgenstock, Senior Economist, KSE Institute in Frankfurt, Germany
James Hodson, Director and Chief Executive Officer of AI for Good; Researcher at the Jozef Stefan Institute Artificial Intelligence Laboratory in Slovenia
Dr. Craig Kennedy, Center Associate, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University, and Former Vice Chairman, Bank of America Merrill Lynch
Oleksandr Novikov, Head of the National Agency on Corruption Prevention
Dr. Benjamin Schmitt, Project Development Scientist at Harvard University; Senior Fellow for Democratic Resilience at the Center for European Policy Analysis; Rethinking Diplomacy Fellow at Duke University
Nataliia Shapoval, Vice President for Policy Research, Kyiv School of Economics
Pavlo Verkhniatskyi, Managing Partner and Director at COSA

[@joancramer7484]

This is fascinating. Thank you for your hard work. Slava Ukraini.

[@kj1483]

Sanctions Group web site says...purpose is to provide a comprehensive list of possible additional economic and political measures to strengthen US, European and global sanctions against Russia and Belarus in order to end Russia’s war against Ukraine as soon as possible.
The Group was created at the initiative of the President of Ukraine.
Group is co-chaired by the head of the Office of the President of Ukraine, Andriy Yermak, and the former US ambassador to Russia, Stanford University professor Michael McFaul.

[@polinanikulina]

Thank you for the important work you do! Glory to Ukraine and Ukrainians, the heroes defending our freedom!

[@kj1483]

54:48 Nataliia Shapoval answers about banning all G7 export to Russia..... she spoke earlier at 4:48
55:32 getting a Russian Oligarch OFF the sanctions list; considering owner of Moscow bank who lives in London since 2012 to escape assassination

[@bill5868]

This session is great but useless unless the international community follows through with a number of recommendations. I'm sure governments know much of what you discussed and identified but fail to act for selfish reasons. There could be additional cost reasons to administer more and comprehensive actions that governments don't want to spend. Maybe a more public approach to identify corporations supporting business with Russia could be actionable to encourage the public not to purchase goods from these corporations. Iran has been able to get material to build drones for Russia made by countries who have sanctioned Iran. Unless there is fully participation, sanctions don't work and will not slow Russia unless Russians die in greater numbers than they have been experiencing. The answer maybe more weapons, faster with Ukraine allowed to strike inside Russia.