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The economic sanctions against Russia for the situation in Ukraine will remain in place until July 31^st, 2018. On December 21^st, 2017, the EU Council formalized the decision to extend the restrictions for other six months, after reports by French President Emmanuel Macron at the European summit on December 14^th. President Macron and German chancellor Angela Merkel - guarantors, in the so-called ‘Normandy format’ of the agreement signed by Moscow and Kiev to end the conflict in the predominantly Russian-speaking region in Eastern Ukraine - have informed the other EU partners that the full implementation of the Minsk protocol is still far away. On March 19^th, 2015, the European Council decided to link the duration of the sanctions to the full implementation of the agreement signed in the Belarusian capital. Implementation was expected by December 31^st, 2015, but that always remained on paper only. Thus, the formalized decision extends the sanctions initially introduced for other six months at least until July 31^st, 2018 and further renewable. The restrictions concern only certain specific sectors, such as finance, energy, defence and civil and military dual-use goods.