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The Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) added 42 entities under 44 entries to the Entity List, effective December 7, 2023. The majority — 28 entities in Russia — are sanctioned for procuring or contracting on behalf of Russia's defense sector, including avionics, military-grade drones, and military electronics. Fourteen additional entities across Armenia, Belarus, Belgium, Cyprus, Germany, Kazakhstan, the Netherlands, China, and the UAE were added for operating diversion and transshipment networks that supply U.S.-origin items to Russian military end-users. All listed entities face a license requirement for all EAR-controlled items with a presumption of denial.

The Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) added 71 entities to the Entity List effective May 19, 2023, as part of the continuing US export-control response to Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Of the 71 additions, 69 are Russian entities (aircraft repair plants, ammunition and gunpowder manufacturers, shipyards, tractor and automobile factories, and engineering centres), one is Armenian, and one is Kyrgyz — the latter two for facilitating diversion of controlled goods to Russia. The majority of Russian entities received "footnote 3" designations as Russian or Belarusian military end users, triggering the Russia/Belarus Military End-User FDP Rule and subjecting them to a license review policy of denial.

The Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Armenia approved Government Decision N 730-L on 11 May 2023, adopting the Mineral Sector Development Strategy of the Republic of Armenia and its accompanying Action Plan through 2035. The strategy establishes three principal goals: creation and maintenance of a unified national digital geological information database, effective decision-making in subsoil use and environmental protection, and compliance with international standards including EITI, IRMA, ICMM, and emerging EU CRM Act due-diligence requirements. Ten action-plan deliverables running through 2035 cover geological-information modernisation, subsoil-use licensing reform, environmental and social-impact assessment strengthening, artisanal-and-small-scale-mining (ASM) formalisation, and human-capital development; the decision was developed with World Bank technical assistance under the Armenia Mineral Sector Policy II grant programme.

The Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) added 28 entities under 32 entries to the Entity List effective April 12, 2023, targeting front companies and logistics networks attempting to evade US export controls to acquire US-origin items in support of Russia's military and defense industrial base. Twelve of the entities are Chinese electronics and semiconductor distributors operating as procurement intermediaries; ten are Russian logistics and trading firms; six are spread across Armenia, Malta, Singapore, Spain, Syria, Turkey, UAE, and Uzbekistan as diversion facilitators. All listed entities are subject to a license review policy of denial for virtually all EAR-controlled items.