By BEN SMITH, JULIAN GODFRAY, ANDREW ROSE, OLA MCLEES, KERRY B. CONTINI, MEGHAN HAMILTON, PAUL D. BURNS, BRIAN CACIC, JACQUELINE ROTONDI and PHILIPPE M. REICH
August 12, 2021
On August 9, 2021, the United States, the United Kingdom, and Canada significantly escalated sanctions against Belarus in a multilateral effort to put pressure on the current Lukashenko regime. These sanctions were announced on the first anniversary of the fraudulent elections held in Belarus on August 9, 2020 and follow a series of previous measures against Belarus, including most recently the coordinated measures between the UK, US, Canada and the EU in June (see our previous blog post here) and the sectoral sanctions also introduced by the EU in June (see our previous blog post here).
