U.S. sanctions against Russian billionaire Viktor Vekselberg and his company, Renova Group, have resulted in the freezing of assets totaling between $1.5 billion and $2 billion, two sources close to the matter told Reuters.
Washington imposed sanctions against several Russian entities and individuals, including Swiss-based Russian oligarch Viktor Vekselberg and...
Top Republican fundraiser Elliott Broidy offered Russian gas giant Novatek a $26 million lobbying plan aimed at removing the company from a U.S. sanctions list, according to documents obtained by The Intercept. This happened shortly after Donald Trump was inaugurated last year, the report said.
Broidy is a Trump associate...
Russia’s Finance Minister Anton Siluanov has revealed that companies hit by the latest round of U.S. sanctions asked the government for about 100 billion rubles ($1.6 billion) in support, Vedomosti reported.
The government will create a department within the ministry that will liaise with the sanctioned businesses, study their challenges...
U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and Russian Finance Minister Anton Siluanov met on Friday to discuss anti-Russian sanctions, the Russian ministry’s press service said.
"On April 20, Russian Finance Minister Anton Siluanov met with U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Steven Mnuchin on the sidelines of this year’s Spring Meetings of...
The charman of the Russian Duma (lower house of Parliament) Vyacheslav Volodin, proposed the introduction of a ban on the implementation of U.S. sanctions in Russia. He announced this initiative during a meeting with representatives of business and expert circles discussing Moscow's retaliation for latest Washington sanctions, Rambler reported.
"It would be right...
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov rejected Friday U.S. comments that Ankara risked sanctions over its purchase of Russian S-400 air defense systems as "blackmail".
"Mr. Mitchell stated that Ankara can be slapped with sanctions if it buys S-400 from Russia. This is exactly an example of an attempted blackmail aiming...
A Russian oligarch at the center of 'Britain's biggest divorce battle' with his ex-wife has been ordered to hand over his $492 million superyacht to her, Bloomberg reported.
A court heard Farkhad Akhmedov, 61, is currently engaged in a cat and mouse struggle with his former wife, Tatiana, 41, in a...
Nickel prices soared to a three-year peak this week as, what analysts said were misplaced concerns that the metal would become ensnared in U.S. sanctions on Russian companies, caused it to break through key technical levels, Reuters reported.
Three-month nickel on the London Metal Exchange soared 12% at one point to...
German Finance Minister Olaf Scholz will seek a special approach to German businesses in Russia during his visit to Washington later this week, while Chancellor Angela Merkel is reportedly planning to bring up the issue at a meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump in late April, Nezavisimaya Gazeta reports.
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Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani is joining the legal team defending President Donald Trump in the special counsel’s Russia investigation, a Trump attorney said Thursday, according to AP.
With the addition of Giuliani, a staunch supporter of Trump since the early days of his campaign, the President gains...
