Britain banns provision of financial services to Russia and importation of pounds into country

Britain again extended sanctions against Russia. The new restrictions imply a ban on the provision of financial and brokerage services. It is also forbidden to import European currencies and pounds sterling, a number of goods and technologies for the oil refining industry into Russia.

The list of new measures of the British government, entitled "notification to exporters", mentions the following list of products prohibited from export to Russia:

• goods and technologies for the implementation of "internal repression";
• components and technologies for the production of chemical and biological weapons;
• seafood and marine technology;
• technologies and equipment for oil refining;
• additional technologies and components for key economic sectors in the Russian Federation.