Western Sanctions

Russian oligarchs close to President Putin still swerving sanctions

The elite businessmen are mostly keeping a low profile, but some have launched costly legal counteroffensives while many others seek sanctuary in sanctions-free nations

Iran, Russia move to link banks to evade Western sanctions

At a signing ceremony on Sunday, Mohsen Karami, the deputy central bank governor, said banks in the two countries had connected their messaging networks following agreements reached over the past year

Explained: How the US and its allies are ‘helping’ Russia in the Ukraine war through Iran’s drones

Russia has effectively used Iranian-made Shahed-136 and Mohajer-6 drones in the ongoing war in Ukraine. Now, investigations have revealed that the weaponry has several components made by US companies and other firms based in Germany, Israel and Japan

Russia braces for economic upheaval as Western sanctions start to bite

President Vladimir Putin has been defiant in the face of Western sanctions, insisting that the Russian economy will emerge stronger, and pointing to 'chaotic measures' in Europe that have boosted global energy prices

'NATO should not expand to the east,' says top Chinese diplomat a day after Xi-Biden talks

Echoing a Kremlin talking point, Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Le Yucheng said 'if NATO's enlargement goes further, it would be approaching the outskirts of Moscow'

Putin orders Russian govt to develop measures in response to Western sanctions

Russian President Vladimir Putin says he has ordered the government to develop measures in response to Western sanctions.

Western sanctions will make us independent: Russia

He said sanctions could only make Russia more economically independent as Europe prepared new measures over Russia's role in the Ukraine crisis.