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Faced with a $32 billion drop in their wealth this year, Russian oligarchs are looking for assets to allow them to overcome sanctions that will increase with the invasion of Ukraine.
After maneuvering Russia into choosing either (1) to permit the U.S. to install its missiles, bases, troops, tanks, and weaponry along Russia's border in Ukraine or (2) to invade Ukraine to prevent that from happening, President Biden, the Pentagon
The escalation of tension in Ukraine has reminded us of something many investors seemed to have forgotten: geopolitical risk.
Pundits are abuzz Wednesday with Biden's announced "first tranche" of sanctions that won't bite.
EU reveals scope of fresh anti-Russia sanctions package...
Moscow can withstand any restrictions thanks to massive gold and foreign exchange reserves, the finance ministry says
After for weeks firmly denying that there are any plans in place for a Russian invasion of Ukraine, Vladimir Putin on Tuesday said the United States is actively trying to goad Russia into an armed conflict with Ukraine.
The United States, alongside its British and Europe allies, has drawn up more sanctions targeting Russia in the event Putin orders an invasion of Ukriaine, this time taking aim at oligarchs and elites which are considered the Russian leader's "inner
But almost a year into President Biden's term, virtually all of those sanctions remain in place, and new ones have been imposed.
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) is to get a vote this week on a bill to sanction Russia's Nord Stream 2 pipeline. The pipeline is a key way for Russia to ship energy to Western Europe, notably Germany.
On Thursday, British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss warned Russia that the UK is working on "high impact" sanctions Western powers could implement over allegations that Moscow is plotting to invade Ukraine.
Russia and China's announcement of an independent financial trading platform will free nations under US sanctions from western intrusion into their commercial activities...
You would likely expect leaders of Students for Liberty to oppose the imposing of sanctions on Venezuela. After all, the organization claims at its website that it is the "largest libertarian student organization in the world" and libertarians ar
Countries neighboring Belarus and Poland are warning of potential coming military confrontation between the two countries as the migrant border crisis continued escalating in the overnight hours and into Thursday.
After three years seeking the extradition from Canada of Chinese business executive Meng Wanzhou, the Justice Department has thrown in the towel by agreeing to a deal that enabled Meng to return freely to China. Meng had been under three years of hou
Iran wants to resume nuclear talks with world powers that would lead to removal of U.S. sanctions, Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi told the annual U.N. General Assembly on Tuesday as negotiations about reinstating a 2015 nuclear pact have stalled.
Years of economic sanctions and political efforts from Washington have come to nothing, and work on the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline is now nearing the final stages of completion, Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has said.
Just when you thought Wells Fargo was finally putting its unpleasant regulatory transgressions behind it once and for all, today Bloomberg reported today that regulators aren't happy with how quickly the bank is paying restitution and cleaning up its
President Biden has announced new sanctions are pending on Russia over the alleged poisoning of Russian opposition figure Alexey Navalny last year. This move comes less than a week after what has been billed as a successful Biden/Putin meeting. Also
--unless U.S. lifts sanctions Russia's space chief threatened Monday to withdraw from the International Space Station program if U.S. sanctions against Moscow's space entities are "not lifted in the near future." Launched in 1998, the ISS s
Official election finance data shows the president removed international sanctions after receiving political contributions.
A prominent crypto analytics firm has issued a new report suggesting the Islamic Republic was able to successfully weather the Trump-era sanctions storm of the past few years by generating up to a billion dollars a year through mining cryptocurrencie
An unnamed Iranian source refuted Rouhani's claims to Iran's PressTV
Washington's Extraordinary Hubris of Sanctioning Friends
The more America imposes its sanctions on Russia, the more natural is the desire of the latter to avoid the risk of the consequences of these sanctions.
Just two days after speaking with Russian President Putin by phone, and suggesting a summit, President Biden has hit Russia with another round of sanctions - including an attack on the Russian currency. The reasons given for this "national emergency"
Ten Russian diplomats & intelligence officials expelled in muscular, multi-layered sanctions rollout...
Update (0910ET): Well that didn't take long. Chinese authorities have already retaliated to the EU sanctions... and threatens more (emphasis ours)
sanctions -- Unilaterally imposed sanctions by one nation on others breach the UN Charter and other international law.
The U.S. treasury department on Tuesday authorized the socialist regime of dictator Nicol´ås Maduro to conduct "transactions and activities" necessary to operate "ports and airports in Venezuela," relaxing sanctions placed on the Latin Amer
