The United States of America will announce a major package of sanctions against Russia on February 23 in connection with the death of opposition leader Alexei Navalny and the two-year war in Ukraine, Reuters reports. US President Joe Biden stated this while talking to reporters during his trip...
International companies continue to pay the salaries of nearly 200 employees in Russia despite promises to suspend or stop operations in the country, according to the Financial Times. A number of Western companies such as McDonald's, IKEA, Renault, Levi Strauss and others have pledged to pay wages to thousands of their…
As stated in the document in the official journal of the EU, personal restrictions from Brussels will apply to Prosecutor General Igor Krasnov, head of the Investigative Committee Alexander Bastrykin, head of the Federal Penitentiary Service Alexander Kalashnikov and head of the Russian Guard Viktor Zolotov. RIA Novosti reports this. Restrictions were introduced in...
The US Congress condemns the poisoning of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny. This legislative body calls for decisive action by the United States and the international community - the corresponding resolution was published on the official website of Congress. The document states that the House of Representatives condemns the apparently deliberate poisoning of 20...
Russian oligarchs, who, according to US authorities, are part of “President Putin’s inner circle,” have found a new way to circumvent the sanctions imposed against them - they are investing millions of dollars in purchasing works of art in the West, writes BBC. About the violation by Arkady Rotenberg, his son Igor and...
The United States has warned companies involved in Nord Stream 2 and Turkish Stream about possible sanctions, Voice of America reports. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo noted that these “Russian influence projects” are harming Ukraine. Firms that worked on gas pipelines from Russia before the adoption of the US sanctions law in...
Washington has imposed sanctions against three Russians and five companies associated with businessman Yevgeny Prigozhin, RIA Novosti writes. The US Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control said in a statement that the restrictions would include organizations in Sudan, Hong Kong and Thailand that...
Russia should be declared a sponsor of terrorism, imposed sanctions against members of the Politburo of the Chinese Communist Party and entire sectors of the Iranian economy. These are the proposals of the Republicans in the US Congress, writes DW. The Republicans of the House of Representatives of the US Congress came up with a proposal for the introduction of unprecedentedly tough sanctions against Russia, ...
The draft resolution, submitted to the US Congress on May 11, calls on Russia to release political prisoners, including Ukrainian citizens, and also asks the administration of US President Donald Trump to impose sanctions against Russian officials responsible for human rights violations, persecution of journalists, oppositionists, representatives of civil ...
On February 18, the United States imposed sanctions on the Russian state-owned company Rosneft over its role in the situation in Venezuela. US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced this on Twitter, Voice of America writes. As Pompeo writes, in this way “a vital artery is cut off...