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Entry Points for Stopping Russia’s Missile Terror in Ukraine: Role of US Technology

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Registration REQUIRED by 4pm on February 10, 2025 in order to attend this event.

Please join the Harriman Institute and the International Partnership for Human Rights for a panel discussion with Professor Martin Stephen Flaherty (Columbia Law School) and Nazar Solomakha (IPHR, Columbia LLM). Moderated by Anastasiya Donets (Team Lead of Ukraine Legal Team at IPHR, Harvard LLM 2024).

From modern fighter jets to ballistic missiles, Russian weaponry is full of US-produced tech crucial for their operation. Without the chips produced by US companies, Russia’s modern weapons would lose much of their effectiveness or would not be designed in the first place. Surprisingly, even after the sweeping international sanctions following Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine almost three years ago, American components still appear in the recently produced Russian weapons that continuously attack the Ukrainian civilian population. These precise strikes have led to atrocity crimes— killing and maiming of hundreds of civilians, and devastating destruction of residential buildings, hospitals and schools So far, neither the export control nor the sanctions adopted by the US effectively stopped Russia from systematically acquiring and integrating American tech into its arms.

Russia has kept taking advantage of outsourced production facilities in nations with weaker export controls and a low threshold for effective due diligence in American corporate law. Allowing this status quo to persist enables Russia to strengthen its war machinery and deepen its military collaboration with its closest allies — Iran and North Korea. The ongoing flow of American technology into Moscow’s hands poses a significant and direct threat to the national security interests of the United States and its allies, as demonstrated by Russia conducting atrocity crimes in Ukraine with weapons containing American chips.

This event is organized by the Harriman Institute together with the International Partnership for Human Rights, a Brussels-based International NGO. The discussion will feature experts with corporate, export controls and sanctions, and human rights backgrounds. They will focus on the role US tech plays in Russian atrocity crimes, as well as the available tools and strategies to prevent foreign states from integrating US-produced technology into their weaponry in circumvention of sanctions.

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