EFTA Document EFTA01461452

difficulty conducting transactions in dollars. Bank Rossiya also will be frozen out of dollar transactions. Russian Economy Obama also signed a new executive order, his third in response to the ukraine crisis, authorizing though not implementing economic sanctions affecting parts of the Russian economy. They included financial services, energy, metals and mining, defense and engineering. "This is not our preferred outcome," he said. "These sanctions would not only have a significant imp