[Sanctions-Discuss] Discuss Digest, Vol 1, Issue 3

[J Scott Marcus]

I hope that nobody minds if I jump into this discussion ...

I think that it makes good sense to start by "selecting a few particular 
entities out of the list, and trying running them through our process 
and seeing how it goes".

The March 10 joint statement placed a high priority on targeting Russian 
military and propaganda entities. I would like to nominate Sputnik and 
RT (which do not seem to appear on the initial list that Niels and Bill 
posted) for the short list of "particular entities". They are preeminent 
arms of Russian propaganda, are already blocked for broadcasting in the 
EU, and are subject to a range of additional restrictions from various 
countries and firms.
https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/press/press-releases/2022/03/02/eu-imposes-sanctions-on-state-owned-outlets-rt-russia-today-and-sputnik-s-broadcasting-in-the-eu/

- J Scott Marcus


On 26/03/2022 20:00, discuss-request at lists.sanctions.net wrote:
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> Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2022 04:24:17 -0700
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> Subject: [Sanctions-Discuss] Playing with the intake mechanism
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> Niels and I have been working through what intake should look like:
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> https://wiki.sanctions.net/index.php/Policy_Group/Table_of_2022_Sanctions_Against_Russia_and_Belarus
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> ?and the unavoidable conclusion I come to is that this is going to be a database, not a table or list, and that long-term, we?re going to need to engage in some work with governments to get them to put their sanctions into a standardized, machine-readable format.  And to harmonize their unique identifiers between governments.  Otherwise it?s just going to turn into a giant data-cleaning project, which doesn?t serve anyone?s interests.
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> Niels suggests that we make headway in parallel with that effort by selecting a few particular entities out of the list, and trying running them through our process and seeing how it goes.  And by ?seeing how it goes,? I mean ?taking copious notes."
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>                                 -Bill
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