Introduction

On 24 February 2022, the Russian Federation launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine. At the time of writing, the fighting continues, with the frontlines constantly shifting, at the cost of several thousand lives, many of them civilians. The aggression has triggered a wave of economic sanctions against Russia and Russian investors. Some of them were already in place following Russia's illegal annexation of the Crimean peninsula and the start of a military conflict in eastern Ukraine in 2014. This time, however, the implementation of such sanctions has been broader and ...