The West has hit Russia with a range of economic sanctions including a promise this weekend from the G-7 nations to reduce their dependence on the country’s oil. But one type of sanction, so-called “export controls,” has attracted less attention than other high-profile penalties like seizing oligarchs’ yachts.
Export controls ban companies from sending crucial products like semiconductors to Russia with the goal of gradually starving its economy. But a top Biden administration official told…
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