Latvia Resumes Naming Firms Trading with Russia or Belarus After Nearly Three Years
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Latvia resumes naming firms trading with Russia or Belarus after nearly three years
Latvia has resumed publishing monthly lists of locally registered companies trading goods with Russia or Belarus after a nearly three-year pause, public broadcaster LSM reported on 20 August 2026. Prime Minister Andris Kulbergs has pledged to sever its remaining economic ties with Russia and Belarus, but substantial trade remains legal because EU sanctions are not a full embargo. The monthly register makes that commerce visible by identifying th…
The Latvian authorities first published a list of 170 companies that continue to trade with Russia despite the war in Ukraine.
How many companies made it to the first list? On Thursday, August 20, the Central Statistical Bureau began publishing a list of enterprises registered in Latvia that export goods to the Russian Federation or Belarus, or import goods from these countries. This is reported by RBC-Ukraine with reference to LSM. According to the newspaper, until now such information was not publicly available, since data stored by the tax office was subject to confi…
The list of such companies is planned to be updated once a month, noting the Latvian broadcaster LSM.
No sanctions - no problem? Despite Russia's war of aggression against Ukraine, some areas of the EU are excluded from trade restrictions. Some companies continue to trade with Russia and Belarus as if nothing had happened. The Latvian government is now making their names public.
In Latvia, the Statistics Office has for the first time published a list of domestic companies that continue to trade with Russia and Belarus despite Moscow's war of aggression against Ukraine.
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