Sport is letting Russia back in. This Ukrainian tennis player says no.
Tennis cracked the door open. Other federations are quietly walking through.
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Ukraine’s vape market is 93% illegal. The trail leads to a sanctioned Russian oligarch.
Smuggled from Poland and barely taxed, the shadow trade drains a country at war—and the network behind it ties back to Oleg Boyko.
A Putin-list oligarch runs Poland’s vape market. The EU won’t sanction him.
Ukraine, Poland, and Australia sanctioned Oleg Boyko. Brussels left him off—as his lawyers move.
Sanctions on Russia: Do they work? Why? Why not? Blame? Changes?
For the past 50 months, the West has steadily increased its sanctions on Russia – at least on paper. A conference in Kyiv this weekend is analyzing sanctions roll back, accountability, the role of civil society, war profiteering, Putin’s enablers, and which sanctions have worked and not.
Scan, switch, sanction—the app turning Western shoppers into Russia’s exit enforcers
About 2,300 large Western companies still pay taxes in Russia. State sanctions won’t touch most of them—going after…
Mark Dixon: “We must declare the Economic World War on Russia”
Four years into Russia’s war on Ukraine, Mark Dixon thinks the West is losing the economic fight—not because the tools don’t exist, but because they’ve never been used at full power.
The 10-point plan to wage the Economic World War—to harm Russia and help Ukraine
The domino effect of a rich Russia risks tipping the balance between whether democracy or autocracy prevails, and whether the future human race lives in freedom or under servitude.
Why is a French sugar giant—with a former president on payroll—still supplying Russian military?
Its Russian subsidiaries made camouflage nets and anti-drone equipment—while a former French president is on the payroll.
EU fertilizer imports from Russia are up 14%. PepsiCo opened a Russian factory. The chips are still flowing.
After five years of sanctions, new data shows Europe’s ledger still tilts toward Moscow.
Russia couldn’t fix its oil revenues. The US Air Force did it.
First-half March data show Russia’s fossil fuel revenues up 14%, as the Hormuz closure reversed India’s retreat from Russian crude.
The US waiver was meant to stabilize markets. Russia’s oil income jumped $890 million in a week.
Bloomberg data shows the $28 penalty Western sanctions built into every Russian barrel has nearly vanished.
Two weeks of someone else’s war earned Russia more than a month of someone else’s sanctions cost it
Zelenskyy says the windfall—compounded by US sanctions relief—gives Putin more room to keep fighting.
Four years of sanctions and Russia still funds its war machine—the West needs economic shock, not lists
Western sanctions are long on lists and short on shock. That needs to change—fast.
Russia’s A-50 maker lost $65 million—its revenue collapsed 3.8 times in one year
Beriev, sole manufacturer of Russia’s dwindling surveillance fleet, swings from profit to deep loss.
TotalEnergies reclaims Dutch refinery sold to Russia’s Lukoil in 2009 (INFOGRAPHIC)
Sanctions unwind a Medvedev-era deal that expanded Moscow’s grip on European energy.
US returns seized tanker to Venezuela while Russia’s stays in custody
Both vessels were captured on 7 January. One country yielded to pressure. The other requires more.
Russia adopts fleeing tanker mid-chase, tells US to back off
Marinera now registered in Sochi. Moscow demands the US back off.
Treasury trumpets Iran sanctions but delists ex-Sberbank executive quietly
The press release made no mention of delisting a former Sberbank executive.
Estonia’s top spy: Russia limits Baltic Sea provocations to protect oil shipments by shadow fleet
Moscow has rerouted drones attacking Ukraine and tightened aircraft discipline over the Baltic Sea after NATO responses, but the restraint could end as the war continues, Kaupo Rosin warns.