Published: February 24th, 2022,
Last updated: May 28th, 2025
Sophie-Charlotte Fischer is a researcher at the Center for Security Studies at ETH Zurich and a specialist in sanctions regimes for high technologies.
The first round of sanctions imposed by the U.S. and the EU has mainly hit Russia’s financial sector. Now that President Vladimir Putin has ordered the invasion of Ukraine, further measures will follow, including export restrictions on key technologies. In an interview with Falk Steiner, Sophie-Charlotte Fischer of the Center for Security Studies at ETH in Zurich explains what such sanctions against Russia could achieve.
Falk Steiner: What possibilities do you see for influencing Russia with technology sanctions?