On April 14, 2025, the US Federal Register placed a notice on its website on continuation of the national emergency regime imposed by Executive Order 14024, with the media wasting no time latching onto the news of the US’ anti-Russian sanctions being extended. On the same day Dmitry Peskov, the Russian President spokesman, stated that this had come as no surprise to the Kremlin

VERBA LEGAL’s Sanctions Practice team comprising Tatyana Neveeva, the firm’s Managing Partner, Counsel Marat Samarskiy and Associates Tatiana Zelenovskaya and Yulia Koroleva has put together a legal alert explaining in detail what really happened and pondering on whether the extension of the national emergency means that the hopes for a relaxation of the sanctions regime recently entertained by some Russians were vain.