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  • Friday, 18 April, 2025
    Raiffeisen Bank International AG
    Raiffeisen halts sale of Russia unit amid US thaw

    Austrian bank has faced pressure to quit, but exit has been complicated by court process

    A worker pushes a cart past the entrance of a Raiffeisen Bank branch in Moscow, Russia
  • Thursday, 17 April, 2025
    Russia opens door to western companies after return of Italy’s Ariston

    Moscow hopes transfer of seized business back to Italian owner will show companies a path back into Russian market

    Vladimir Putin is seated at a desk, holding a pen during a videoconference meeting
  • Tuesday, 15 April, 2025
    EU energy
    EU explores legal options for ending Russian gas deals

    Brussels says invoking force majeure clause would allow contract termination without penalties

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  • Saturday, 12 April, 2025
    Russian economy
    Putin’s war chest under threat as oil prices slide

    Donald Trump’s tariff war adds pressure to Russian economy

    A night landscape of Omsk oil refinery in Russia
  • Thursday, 10 April, 2025
    News in-depthRussian politics
    ‘All kinds of scavengers’: Russia speeds up asset grab

    Nationalisation spree comes as Vladimir Putin is making overtures to western companies

    Putin and Domodedovo airport in background
  • Sunday, 30 March, 2025
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    Russia’s war economy fuels rustbelt revival

    Shops, restaurants and gyms are popping up in historically poor areas which serve as recruiting pools for Moscow’s army

    Kids and ducks outside a Pyaterochka supermarket
  • Thursday, 27 March, 2025
    Serbia
    US sanctions to hit Serbia’s oil imports

    President Aleksandar Vučić says talks on country’s only refinery failed to break deadlock

    NIS deep oil processing and refining complex
  • Thursday, 27 March, 2025
    Oil & Gas industry
    European oil traders weigh Russia return in market reshaped by war

    Commodity houses face battle from trading network that has served Moscow since invasion

    Torbjörn Törnqvist, chief executive and founder of Geneva-based Gunvor, speaks during the FT Global Commodity Summit
  • Wednesday, 26 March, 2025
    War in Ukraine
    Russia detains billionaire Vadim Moshkovich

    Founder of one of Russia’s largest agricultural companies held by authorities

    Vadim Moshkovich
  • Wednesday, 26 March, 2025
    The Big Read
    Inside Russia’s Gazprom: can the ailing energy giant be revived?

    The gas and oil company is struggling to recover from record losses after Putin’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine destroyed its business model

    Montage of Lakhta Centre that serves as Gazprom’s headquarters
  • Thursday, 20 March, 2025
    Constanze Stelzenmüller
    Opening Nord Stream 2 would be a catastrophic mistake

    Caught between Russia and an increasingly adversarial US, Germany’s ties to Europe are being tested

    An illustration of the European flag but with black stars, and the top star lit by a gas flame
  • Thursday, 20 March, 2025
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    Herbert Smith Freehills fined £465,000 over Russia sanctions breaches

    UK Treasury says law firm’s Moscow division paid £3.9mn to entities subject to asset freezes

    HSF’s offices
  • Tuesday, 18 March, 2025
    Law
    Former Russian politician goes on trial in UK for breaching sanctions

    The ex-governor of Sevastopol used funds for school fees and to access a Mercedes-Benz, court hears

    Dmitrii Ovsiannikov and his wife Ekaterina Ovsiannikova arrive at Southwark Crown Court in London
  • Monday, 17 March, 2025
    Putin lets western investors sell some Russian shares ahead of Trump talks

    Kremlin decree allows firms including Jane Street, GMO and Franklin Templeton to offload holdings

    Russian President Vladimir Putin
  • Monday, 17 March, 2025
    War in Ukraine
    Italian football star sparks outrage with plan to attend Moscow gala

    Retired AS Roma player Francesco Totti appears on billboards across Russian capital

    A giant billboard showing retired AS Roma captain Francesco Totti in Moscow
  • Monday, 17 March, 2025
    Russian economy
    Investors seek to profit from Russia as Trump pursues rapprochement

    Hedge funds and brokers eye the country’s corporate bonds and the rouble

    A person holds several 1,000 Russian rouble notes
  • Friday, 14 March, 2025
    War in Ukraine
    EU to remove 4 Russian nationals from sanctions list

    Decision follows Hungary’s threat to block restrictions on more than 2,000 individuals sanctioned over Ukraine war

    Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, and Mikhail Degtyaryov at the Grand Kremlin Palace in Moscow, Russia on March 4 2025
  • Thursday, 13 March, 2025
    Mikhail Fridman
    Hungary threatens to cancel sanctions on 2,000 Russians unless EU exempts Mikhail Fridman

    Travel restrictions and asset freeze orders are due to expire on Saturday

    Mikhail Fridman is seated on a sofa
  • Tuesday, 11 March, 2025
    Elina Ribakova
    There’s no money to be made in Russia

    American companies shouldn’t assume that a thaw in US ties with Moscow will make doing business there easier

    The rich interior of GUM Moscow shopping centre
  • Monday, 10 March, 2025
    Russia imposes fees to stem flood of low-cost Chinese cars

    Moscow hardens stance as vehicle imports targeted by western sanctions overwhelm local market

    BYD vehicles in a parking lot in Inner Mongolia, China
  • Wednesday, 5 March, 2025
    Behind the Money podcast22 min listen
    Tracking Russia’s ‘shadow fleet’

    The existence of the shadow fleet is worth billions of dollars a year to the Kremlin. But who owns these ships? The FT investigates.

  • Sunday, 2 March, 2025
    War in Ukraine
    Putin ally pushes deal to restart Nord Stream 2 with US backing

    Ex-spy Warnig’s plan to involve American investors shows breadth of Trump’s rapprochement with Russian president

    Putin and Matthias Warnig
  • Sunday, 2 March, 2025
    News in-depthOil & Gas industry
    Europe’s only sanctioned oil trader appeals against decision, citing ‘disinformation’

    Niels Troost’s lawyers argue EU may have been influenced by the trader’s estranged former business partner

    Dutch trader Niels Troost
  • Friday, 28 February, 2025
    Kremlin woos western companies to return to Russia

    Moscow seeks to use economic ties to lure US under Trump as businesses take early steps towards returning

    A bottle of Coca Cola pictured in front of St Basil’s Cathedral in Moscow
  • Friday, 21 February, 2025
    Russian politics
    Vladimir Putin prepares for return of western companies to Russia

    President orders cabinet to give domestic producers preferential treatment as payback for sanctions

    Russian President Vladimir Putin addresses a Technology Forum in Moscow, Russia on February 21 2025
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