.RUSSIA'S precious stone field is actually under the gun. On January 1st the G7, a team of wealthy countries, and also the European Union banned bring ins of rough precious stones mined in Russia-- a 3rd of the overall removed worldwide in 2022. On January 3rd the EU added Russia's condition exploration provider, and its own ceo, to its own injunctions listing. This is actually the first phase of a detailed decrees scheme: in March the G7 as well as EU will certainly prohibit Russian gems that have actually been cut and perfected abroad. In September they will definitely launch an accreditation program to validate where diamonds were mined. These procedures amount to the biggest improvement to business in years. Why possesses it taken so long to impose sanctions on Russia's diamond sector-- as well as what effect will they have?