{"id":63516,"date":"2025-09-14T12:35:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-14T12:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/63516\/"},"modified":"2025-09-14T12:35:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-14T12:35:09","slug":"fears-backdoor-routes-are-supplying-russia-with-irish-goods-on-sanctions-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/63516\/","title":{"rendered":"Fears backdoor routes are supplying Russia with Irish goods on sanctions list"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Irish exports to countries in Moscow\u2019s orbit, including Georgia and Kyrgyzstan, hit almost \u20ac216.5m at the end of 2024\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Kyrgyzstan has long been suspected of acting as a back door for Russia-bound trade\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/from_Ireland_online.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Kyrgyzstan has long been suspected of acting as a back door for Russia-bound trade<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Exports to countries in Russia\u2019s orbit have continued to soar since it invaded Ukraine, fuelling fears Irish goods subject to sanctions are finding their way into the country through the backdoor.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Irish exports to countries including Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan hit almost \u20ac216.5m at the end of 2024, up nearly \u20ac95m since 2021 \u2013 the year before Russia invaded Ukraine. In November 2023, the Department of Enterprise said the EU had identified these countries as states in which there was a \u201crisk of circumvention of the sanctions against Russia\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Irish exports to countries in Moscow\u2019s orbit, including Georgia and Kyrgyzstan, hit almost \u20ac216.5m at the end of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":63517,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[9,10,13,14,6,11,12,15,16,5,1265,7,8,65,66,67],"class_list":{"0":"post-63516","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-featured-news","11":"tag-featurednews","12":"tag-headlines","13":"tag-latest-news","14":"tag-latestnews","15":"tag-main-news","16":"tag-mainnews","17":"tag-news","18":"tag-sean-pollock","19":"tag-top-stories","20":"tag-topstories","21":"tag-world","22":"tag-world-news","23":"tag-worldnews"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63516\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}