Yes, absolutely. You're absolutely right. It helps protect people.
Another thing is that it creates a kind of opening, because when people who are on the side of the regime, or are members of the regime, or are those who have actually implemented whatever policies the regime has implemented in Belarus, they know that there is a principled assessment of their activities, their wrong activities, and they know the possible consequences. They are being more careful. Vice versa, when the sanctions are lifted, they don't have these kinds of barriers, so the sanctions do create openings for the civil society, for the political opposition, and for mass media or independent media in the countries that are in such difficult situations.