Trump Sanctions Look to Tighten the Screw on Russia’s Oil Income

The move against Rosneft and Lukoil is designed to choke off Kremlin revenues without causing a spike in global prices.

A bad week for Hungary’s strongman leader as Trump-Putin summit scrapped and US sanctions Russia

Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orbán was delighted to learn last week that Russia and the United States had chosen his ...
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'Russian propagandist' — Bessent hits back as Kremlin envoy Dmitriev downplays US sanctions

"The Russian economy is a wartime economy. Growth is virtually zero," U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told CBS News.

Russia’s Central Bank Cuts Key Rate as New Sanctions Loom

The cut comes as an already slowing economy braces for the impact of fresh sanctions in response to President Vladimir ...

FIA reinstated Russian official facing US, UK sanctions to World Motor Sport Council

A Russian official who remains subject to sanctions from the United States and the United Kingdom was reinstated to the FIA’s ...

Senior Russian envoy arrives in US days after oil sanctions imposed

Kirill Dmitriev, a close Putin ally, says trip was scheduled before Treasury slapped restrictions on Rosneft and Lukoil ...

Ukraine issues Russia new long-range strike warning

Kyiv had hoped to secure long-range Tomahawk cruise missiles from the U.S. to intensify its attacks on Russian oil targets. But U.S. President Donald Trump has not agreed to sell ...

State Department thought Putin had no interest in ending the war in Ukraine: report

Trump has grown vocally frustrated with Putin in recent days, launching sanctions against Russian oil producers and calling ...