.RUSSIA'S DIAMOND industry is struggling. On January 1st the G7, a team of abundant countries, and the European Union outlawed imports of rugged diamonds unearthed in Russia-- a 3rd of the overall removed worldwide in 2022. On January 3rd the EU added Russia's state mining business, and also its ceo, to its decrees listing. This is actually the very first phase of a comprehensive sanctions system: in March the G7 and also EU will definitely disallow Russian jewels that have been reduced as well as refined abroad. In September they will definitely introduce a license program to validate where precious stones were actually mined. These measures add up to the biggest improvement to business in many years. Why possesses it taken such a long time to establish injunctions on Russia's precious stone market-- as well as what influence will they have?