Trade Through Leaky Barriers: How the Kremlin Uses Third Countries to Bypass Sanctions and Supply Military Goods

Despite tightening sanctions pressure from Western partners, the Russian regime is finding new logistical chains to import critical dual-use goods. Through intermediaries in Central Asia and the South Caucasus, Moscow continues to receive microchips, optical equipment, and industrial machinery necessary to maintain and expand production within the military-industrial complex. International investigators have repeatedly recorded a sharp surge in the export of European products to states bordering Russia, directly pointing at re-export by Russian government structures.

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