Abstract
Targeted sanctions of the UN Security Council, which include freezing assets and arresting property of natural and legal persons, may interfere fulfillment by the latter of
their contracting obligations. Targeted sanctions as differently from the comprehensive sanctions of the UN Security Council are directed against specific individuals and
entities. The present article focusses on the possibility to qualify targeted sanctions of
the UN Security Council as a force-majeure in the civil counteraction.
The application of targeted sanctions by the UN Security Council including freezing of accounts and seizure of property of
natural and legal entities interferes with performance by such persons of liabilities assumed by them. Targeted sanctions,
unlike comprehensive sanctions of the UN Security Council, are directed directly to specifi c subjects of managing. In the
present article the question is considered whether qualification of such actions as force majeure circumstances in a civil legal circulation is possible.