FATF may ease sanctions pressure on Russian economy.

The refusal of FATF to put Russia on the blacklist reduces the effectiveness of sanctions against the aggressor state.

Participants of the round table 'How to bring back blocked Russian money to Ukraine', held by the 'Financial Club', stated this.

'As soon as Russia is included in the FATF blacklist, all countries will think and act in a way that will prevent parts from being supplied, in the banking sector - not to communicate with Russia or cooperate. This is what needs to be pressed on now', - believes the deputy head of ARMA on Eurointegration issues Grigol Katamadze.

Agia Zagrebelska, former State Commissioner of the Antimonopoly Committee, says that many Western manufacturers of microelectronic base intentionally ignore the problem, but there are also those who, not hiding their eyes, supply these products to Russia.

'Some of them even have joint productions with Russia, as we heard about the 'Harpy' drones of Russian-Chinese production. There are companies in Turkey, UAE, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, who fully understand who they are dealing with, understand that they are supplying to Russian military-industrial complex', says Agia Zagrebelska.

Responsibility for this will soon come. 'Many countries have already criminalized such a crime as sanctions evasion. This allows asset confiscation within the framework of criminal prosecution. And this is the direction that currently has more potential than is being used', believes Agia Zagrebelska.