Latvia resumes naming firms trading with Russia or Belarus after nearly three years
A new monthly register identifies Latvian businesses that traded goods with Russia or Belarus in July, without alleging that they violated sanctions.
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Berlin weighs closing the Russian House for spying, yet a federal ministry just moved in beside it
One arm of the German government reviews shutting the site while another shares a wall with it, exposing a split over how seriously the threat is taken.
Greece blocked a gas ban, France and Italy softened an entry ban—now Brussels tries 1,600 companies helping Russia’s war
Bloomberg sources says the proposed list covers firms feeding Russia's military industry, and the work stayed out of public view.
Euractiv: Italy and Greece win a fur pass for Russia inside the EU’s newest sanctions round
The two nations buy more Russian sable than anyone else in the bloc, and they lobbied to keep the pelts flowing while finished coats stay off-limits.
EU sanctions Georgia’s only oil refinery over processing Russian crude. Company says it will switch suppliers
Brussels has imposed sanctions on Georgia's only oil refinery for processing Russian crude, expanding efforts to curb Moscow's energy revenues while giving the company six months before the restrictions take effect.
EU adopts largest sanctions package on Russia: 218 names and 100+ banks and crypto platforms among those on the list
Banks, refineries, drone parts, crypto exchanges: the bloc's 21st sanctions package reaches further into Russia's economy than any round before it.
Baltic nation boosts security at dam, gas storage facility due to Russian threat
Latvia's Prime Minister named a gas facility and the dam upstream of the capital as the sites now under heavier guard.
One Greek company keeps Russia’s Arctic gas moving—and Athens won’t let the EU touch it
Dynagas has carried more than 10 million tons of Russian LNG since 2025 across 144 voyages.
Two months in office, three blows to Ukraine: Bulgaria’s premier stacks Coalition of the Willing exit on aid freeze and sanctions blocks
Since May, Radev has stopped state military aid, defended two prominent Russians from EU blacklists, and now removed Bulgaria from the group backing Kyiv against Russian aggression.
Olenivka officials and Taganrog jail land on EU sanctions list for abuse of Ukrainian prisoners
Brussels adopted the listings under two human-rights regimes, targeting the command chains of detention facilities in occupied Ukraine and inside Russia.
France pivots on visas for Russians, shutting application shortcuts as EU crackdown spreads
Paris reverses course months after posting the EU's steepest rise in Russian visa issuance.
What Moscow does to foreign embassies, Latvia will now do to Russia’s
PM Braže said Russian services routinely screen people entering other countries' diplomatic buildings in the Russian capital.
Trade, banks, energy, crypto—the EU keeps its full Russia economic sanctions wall standing to 2027
The Council also held open the door to a 21st package still being negotiated.
Russia’s former soldiers may face a locked EU border—if France and Italy stop balking
The two governments worry the measure could open the door to keeping every Russian out, sources told Bloomberg.
Europe weighs freezing Russia’s oil price cap as the Iran war threatens to loosen it
Brussels could override the automatic formula that would otherwise let the ceiling jump from $44.10 to at least $65 a barrel in July, Bloomberg says.
EU’s 21st Russia sanctions package will target the shadow fleet, banks, and firms selling stolen Ukrainian grain—Politico
Brussels expects the package in late June or early July, EU officials told Politico, with Hungary's change of government unlocking measures previously blocked under Viktor Orbán, including sanctions on Patriarch Kirill.
As Western unity cracks, Ukraine fights to keep Russia sanctions alive
Moscow plays divide and conquer, testing allies as fuel shortages bite
“In any normal country” buying stolen goods is a crime, Zelenskyy says — Ukraine readies sanctions over Russian-stolen grain unloaded in Israel
Ukraine's sanctions package will cover transporters and individuals and entities profiting from the scheme, according to the President.
Mikhail Piotrovsky runs Russia’s Hermitage Museum. EU just sanctioned him for legitimizing Russia’s occupation of Ukraine
Russia steals children. Russia steals history.
EU’s 20th sanctions package hits 20 Russian banks, 46 shadow fleet tankers, and crypto platforms
Shadow fleet total hits 632 ships; new measures cover oil transport, Russian banks, crypto platforms, and re-exports via Kyrgyzstan.