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A well head and drilling rig in the Yarakta oilfield, owned by Irkutsk Oil Company (INK), in the Irkutsk region, Russia, March 11, 2019. REUTERS/Vasily Fedosenko/File Photo
Global Economy

With record pump prices, Biden hard-pressed to ramp up Russia sanctions

The United States and Europe have already imposed a raft measures targeting Russia's oil exports, the lifeblood of its economy and its war machine, including export controls, a US ban on...

A general view of Moscow International Business centre also known as Moskva City, just after sunset in Moscow, Russia on 19 March, 2022. REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov
World+Biz

Canada imposes Russia-related sanctions 22 individuals, 4 entities

Russian billionaire Andrei Melnichenko attends a session during the Week of Russian Business, organized by the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs (RSPP), in Moscow, Russia February 9, 2018. REUTERS/Sergei Karpukhin/File Photo
Europe

How a Russian billionaire shielded assets from European sanctions

A North Korea flag flutters next to concertina wire at the North Korean embassy in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia March 9, 2017. REUTERS/Edgar Su
World+Biz

Security Council split spells end of an era for US-led sanctions on N Korea

Representation of the virtual currency Bitcoin is seen on a motherboard in this picture illustration taken April 24, 2020. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/File Photo
Global Economy

US to impose sanctions on bitcoin 'mixer' company for aiding NKorea

Surveillance cameras are seen near the headquarters of Chinese video surveillance firm Hikvision in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, China May 22, 2019. REUTERS/Stringer
World+Biz

US plans to impose sanctions on China's Hikvision

The logo is on display in an office of the Russian largest lender Sberbank in Moscow, Russia December 24, 2020. Reuters
World+Biz

New EU sanctions on Russia to target Sberbank, Commission head tells paper

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World+Biz

Russia slaps sanctions on 398 members of US Congress

Katerina Tikhonova, deputy director of the Institute for Mathematical Research of Complex Systems at Moscow State University, daughter of Russian President Vladimir Putin, is seen on a screen as she takes part in a session of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF) in Saint Petersburg, Russia June 4, 2021. REUTERS
World+Biz

UK sanctions Russian President Vladimir Putin's daughters

A singing Chinese robot on display.Photographer: China News Service/China News Service/Bloomberg
Analysis

Good luck trying to sanction China’s 4,762 little giants

Director General of Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin walks in front of the Soyuz MS-20 spacecraft as it rests on its launchpad shortly before the blast off with Roscosmos cosmonaut Alexander Misurkin, space flight participant Japanese entrepreneur Yusaku Maezawa and his production assistant Yozo Hirano to the International Space Station (ISS) at the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, 8 December 2021. REUTERS/Shamil Zhumatov/Pool
Europe

Russia says cooperation in space only possible once sanctions are lifted

European Commissioner for Economy Paolo Gentiloni attend a press conference of Read-out of the College meeting during a debate on Poland's challenge to the supremacy of EU laws at the European Parliament in Strasbourg, France, October 19, 2021. Ronald Wittek/Pool via REUTERS
Europe

EU says it eyes further Russia sanctions that will not affect energy sector

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Bangladesh

Sanctions against some RAB personnel 'very condemnable act': PM