Asset confiscation

Anders Aslund for the Kyiv Post: US Shows Europe How to Deal With Russian State Assets

Washington is poised to confiscate frozen Russian assets in the US. This is the right action to take, and now the EU, which holds the...

Vladimir Milov for GLOBSEC: Confiscating Russian Assets: Difficult But Necessary

By Vladimir Milov. Former Deputy Minister of Energy of Russian Federation The debate around the topic of financing Ukraine’s reconstruction through the confiscation of frozen...

B4Ukraine: 2024 Іs the Year to Defund Russia’s War: The West Holds the Key

Two years after the start of Russia’s all-out war on its sovereign neighbor, Ukraine is still resisting as Russian attacks continue to destroy infrastructure and...

Włodzimierz Cimoszewicz: Europe must seize Russia’s state assets now

Włodzimierz Cimoszewicz is a member of the European Parliament, and a former prime minister and foreign minister of Poland. Rarely are the moral, legal, political...

Olena Halushka: Here’s how to find more funds for Ukraine – liquidate Russia’s $300bn in frozen assets

he White House has warned that the US will run out of funds for Ukraine by the end of the year if Congress doesn’t approve a new...

U4U Webinar: Countermeasures: International Law and the Confiscation of Russian State Assets for Reconstruction of Ukraine

United for Ukraine Network (U4U) organised a webinar discussion “Countermeasures: International Law and the Confiscation of Russian State Assets for Reconstruction of Ukraine”, which took...

Andrius Kubilius. Countermeasures: An Effective Way Towards Using Frozen Russian Assets For Ukraine’s Reconstruction

Seizing and allocating all the frozen Russian assets for the reconstruction of Ukraine faces various challenges. From the fiscal point of view many fear that...

Centre for Economic Strategy: Confiscation of Russian Sovereign Assets: Mission Possible and Overdue

Legal and Economic arguments to confiscate Russian State Assets and #MakeRussiaPay (prepared with the International Center for Ukrainian Victory) The legal arguments were prepared by Andrii Mikheiev,...

European Parliament committee paves way for Russian asset confiscation

Last week, the European Parliament Committee on Budgets (BUDG) adopted a proposal to extent the scope of the directive on Asset recovery and confiscation to...

CEPS and SCEEUS: The $300 Billion Question

By Micahel Emerson and Steven Blockmans. As the scale of Russia’s destruction of Ukrainian infrastructure increases by the day, the issue on how reconstruction is...

Roundtable Discussion on Legal Ways to Seize and Use Frozen Russian Assets for the Reconstruction of Ukraine

Every day, we are deploring enormous numbers of (civilian) victims in Ukraine. Additionally, we are witnessing immense damages caused by the Russian war of aggression...

Vlad Gheorghe Interview for NEWS magazine: Hunters of the Frozen Russian Treasure

Interview for The NEWS Magazine by Wolfgang Machreic. The MEP Vlad Gheorghe is supposed to find ways to use Russian assets in Europe for the...

International Working Group on Russian Sanctions: Working Group Paper #6 “Why and How to Confiscate Russia’s Sovereign Assets to Help Rebuild Ukraine”

The principle is clear: Russia ought to pay substantial reparations to Ukraine after this horrific and senseless war. The moral and practical answer is clear....

Frozen Russian Assets and the Reconstruction of Ukraine: Legal Options

This paper is based on a workshop that brought together a group of academics, practitioners and civil society groups specialising in sanctions, asset confiscation and...