Turkey suddenly stops  transit of sanctioned goods to Russia

ArmInfo.Turkey suddenly stopped the transit of sanctioned goods to Russia. The customs system blocks  the transit clearance of goods of non-Turkish origin.  Such a move came as a surprise to the market, its participants, who are urgently  looking for alternative routes, told Kommersant FM. According to them, exactly those goods, which go to Russia through parallel  import, were blocked.

<Some interlocutors of Kommersant FM associate the suspension of the  transit of sanctioned goods with the recent visit of U.S. Secretary  of State Antony Blinken to Turkey. The United Arab Emirates is also  under pressure, writes the Financial Times. They became a center for  supplying Russia with electronics>, Kommersant writes.

Days earlier, the United States Government called on companies to  commit to comply with sanctions against Russia, "introduced after  Moscow's invasion of Ukraine." The U.S. warns that failure to do so  could lead to possible prosecution or enforcement action, Reuters  reports. A joint notice from the Departments of Justice, Commerce and  the Treasury states that attempts to circumvent Russia-related  sanctions and export controls continue, including through third  parties. The guide refers to countries such as China, Armenia,  Turkey, and Uzbekistan that have been used as "transit points" for  "illicit diversion of prohibited goods to Russia or Belarus".  On  March 2, in Berlin, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, at a joint press  conference with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, assured that Armenia  was not helping Russia bypass Western sanctions.  The United States,  Europe and other partners, seeking to inflict economic harm on  Moscow, have imposed a slew of sanctions on a number of individuals  and entities since Russian troops invaded Ukraine a year ago.