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  • Monday, 7 July, 2025
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  • Friday, 4 July, 2025
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  • Tuesday, 1 July, 2025
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    Berlin increases controls on vessels heading eastward through the Fehmarn strait

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  • Friday, 27 June, 2025
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    Berlin considers strengthening investment screening powers to stop any future investors reactivating gas pipelines

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  • Wednesday, 25 June, 2025
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  • Monday, 23 June, 2025
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    US warplanes and a submarine struck three Iranian nuclear enrichment facilities over the weekend

  • Friday, 20 June, 2025
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    Inditex chief’s comments are latest sign that departed multinationals are not rushing to re-enter market

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  • Thursday, 19 June, 2025
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    Putin’s investment forum fails to attract western companies

    Even Russia’s allies send lower-ranking officials and executives to St Petersburg — except Indonesia’s president

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  • Tuesday, 17 June, 2025
    Russian court approves state seizure of Moscow’s second-largest airport

    Government wins ruling to expropriate Domodedovo airport in escalation of dozens of forced nationalisations

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  • Tuesday, 17 June, 2025
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    Vienna’s olive branch comes as Brussels proposes to completely ban gas imports from Russia by 2028

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  • Monday, 16 June, 2025
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    EU plans ban on new Russian gas contracts using trade law

    Proposal aims to circumvent any potential veto from Hungary or Slovakia

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  • Thursday, 12 June, 2025
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    Fake McDonald’s lobbies Putin to block return of western companies

    Knock-off Russian brands have reaped the rewards of a consumer boom without the competition

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  • Wednesday, 11 June, 2025
    War in Ukraine
    EU targets Chinese banks over Russian trade links

    Proposed sanctions would be first time Brussels has moved against third-country lenders supporting Moscow

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  • Tuesday, 10 June, 2025
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    EU to target Nord Stream and Russian oil cap in new sanctions

    European Commission presented 18th series of measures against Moscow on Tuesday

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  • Tuesday, 10 June, 2025
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    Founder of payments group said to have operated ‘a covert pipeline for dirty money’

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  • Friday, 6 June, 2025
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    Moscow’s possible inclusion has ‘huge support’ as Brussels expects to adopt new designation next week after a delay

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  • Tuesday, 20 May, 2025
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  • Tuesday, 20 May, 2025
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    John Michael Ormerod was allegedly involved in the procurement of oil tankers

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  • Tuesday, 13 May, 2025
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    EU readies capital controls and tariffs to safeguard Russia sanctions

    Alternative legal options explored to circumvent Hungarian veto

    Prime Minister Viktor Orbán looks at European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen as she speaks at the European parliament in Strasbourg, France in October 2024
  • Friday, 9 May, 2025
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    UK hits key figures in Russian oil trade with sanctions

    Latest measures to increase economic pressure on Moscow target five Azerbaijani oil executives

    A pressure gauge near oil pump jacks in Russia
  • Tuesday, 6 May, 2025
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    Brussels seeks to force EU companies to disclose Russian gas contracts

    European Commission will propose rules next month requiring contract details to be shared with energy and security authorities

    A gauge showing no pressure at a gas facility in Slovakia
  • Tuesday, 6 May, 2025
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    EU’s Russia sanctions to target companies in Vietnam and Turkey

    Bloc’s latest package of measures targets more than 20 businesses it accuses of helping Moscow evade restrictions

    An oil tanker owned by the Russian state shipping company Sovcomflot transits the Bosphorus in Istanbul, Turkey, in April last year
  • Monday, 5 May, 2025
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    EU to set 2027 deadline for severing energy contracts with Russia

    Plan to be announced by European Commission aimed at forcing member states to end gas imports from Moscow

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  • Wednesday, 30 April, 2025
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    Lawyers report interest in structuring activities to allow restart of trading with Russian entities

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  • Friday, 25 April, 2025
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    Dispute relates to fallout from hedging deal with Russia’s VTB upended by Ukraine invasion

    A worker prepares to secure newly cast aluminium cylinders to a hoist in the foundry at the Sayanogorsk aluminium smelter, operated by Rusal, in Sayanogorsk, Russia
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