Many Western and some Russian commentators have seriously misread what the new American sanctions have done to the Russian stock market and ruble exchange rate, US-based Russian analyst Aleksandr Nemets says. Yes, those sanctions initially...
Oleg Sysuyev, the deputy head of Alfa-Bank, Russia’s seventh largest bank by net assets, says that his institution will no longer provide services to Russian defense industries that have fallen under US sanctions, even though...
Finastra, a company which owns the software used for SWIFT banking transactions, has ceased cooperation with Russian banks under sanctions, the Russian outlet Vedomosti wrote citing two sources who know this from Finastra and the banks....
One bank official from Cyprus* explained to me why top Russian officials, such as Medvedev, Kostin, etc., responded so nervously and irrationally to reports of a possible disconnection of Russia from SWIFT. The fact is that while the other...
After the conflict in Donbas escalated, namely because of the recent shelling of civilians in Volnovakha, Mariupol and now Donetsk, a number of world leaders agreed to maintain sanctions against Russia, and also expressed the possible need...
2020 was a hard year for nearly the entire world: the COVID-19 pandemic and the multiple ensuing crises showed how easily our civilization can be upset by something as microscopic as a virus. Ukraine faced additional challenges. Ukrainian...
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