Biden and Xi set to clash over Putin’s war
U.S. President Joe Biden is expected to tell Chinese President Xi Jinping on Friday that Beijing will pay a price if it supports Russia’s military operations in Ukraine, ...
Moscow sets out strict new controls on foreigners trading Russian assets
Russia laid down strict new rules for foreigners seeking permits to buy and sell Russian assets ranging from securities to real estate, a client memo by Citigroup (C.N) showed, ...
Australia sanctions Russian billionaires with mining industry links
Australia imposed sanctions on Friday on two Russian oligarchs with links to its mining industry, one of them a billionaire with an investment connection to Rio Tinto’s Gladstone alumina ...
Putin’s warning to ‘traitors’ sends chilling message
Graffiti warnings daubed on the doors of activists in Moscow. A food blogger threatened with up to 15 years in jail for “discrediting” Russia’s army. A call to sack a ...
Scant progress in peace talks as Ukrainian cities pounded in more Russian attacks (Update 3)
Rescue workers on Thursday dug survivors out of the rubble of a theatre in the besieged city of Mariupol which Ukraine said had been hit by a Russian air strike ...
Russian law on leased jets could help in claiming insurance
A new Russian law on leased aircraft showed Moscow could “confiscate” planes and such a move might help it claim insurance, Air Lease Corp (AL.N) said at a time ...
Russian government sites facing unprecedented cyber attacks
Russian government websites are facing unprecedented cyber-attacks and technical efforts are being made to filter foreign web traffic, the TASS news agency cited the digital ministry as saying on Thursday.
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Facebook removes more Russia posts claiming children’s hospital bombing a hoax
Facebook on Wednesday removed official Russian posts that falsely claimed reports of Russia bombing a children’s hospital in Ukraine were a hoax, a company spokesperson said, even as similar ...
Shells hit theatre sheltering Ukraine civilians, Biden calls Putin a war criminal
International outrage over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine grew on Thursday as U.S. and Ukrainian officials said civilians waiting in line for bread and sheltering in a theatre had ...
BMW, Michelin hit by supply-chain disruption, Publicis cedes control in Russia
Michelin and BMW were among the latest companies on Wednesday to warn of disruption to their operations from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, while ad group Publicis said it had ...
Musk’s ‘combat challenge’ to Putin prompts mockery in Russia
The Kremlin may have ignored billionaire Elon Musk challenging President Vladimir Putin to a fight over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, but several Russian officials have stepped in to defend ...
Zelenskiy asks US Congress to ‘protect our sky’ against Russia
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy urged American lawmakers to do more to protect his country from Russia’s invasion in an address to the U.S. Congress on Wednesday and pleaded ...
Can Russia pay its creditors, and what happens if not?
Russia is due to pay $117 million in interest on two dollar-denominated sovereign bonds on Wednesday – the first such payments since its invasion of Ukraine which sparked a raft of sanctions ...
Sanctions-savaged Russia teeters on brink of historic default
The economic cost of Russia’s assault on Ukraine was fully exposed on Wednesday as Vladimir Putin’s sanctions-ravaged government teetered on the brink of its first international debt default ...
ECB puts Russians in EU, even residents, under scanner
European Union regulators have told some banks to scrutinise transactions by all Russian and Belarusian clients, including EU residents, to ensure that they are not used to circumvent Western sanctions ...
Russia says parts of a Ukraine compromise deal are close
Russia said on Wednesday that some parts of a possible peace deal with Ukraine were close to being agreed after Kyiv agreed to discuss neutrality, raising hopes of an end ...
Ukraine says 20,000 escape besieged Mariupol; UK says Russian forces struggling
About 20,000 people have managed to escape the besieged port of Mariupol in private cars, the Ukrainian interior ministry said on Wednesday, but hundreds of thousands remain trapped by Russian shelling, ...
Prosecutors seek longer, stricter jail term for Kremlin critic Navalny
Russian prosecutors asked a court on Tuesday to sentence jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny to an additional 13 years on fraud and contempt of court charges and to move him to ...
Belarus resisting attempts to drag it into Ukraine conflict, Lukashenko says
President Alexander Lukashenko said on Tuesday that Belarus had intercepted a missile fired at it two days ago from Ukraine, but that it would resist what he called attempts to ...
Kyiv struck by Russian shelling, curfew announced
Russian shelling struck Kyiv on Tuesday killing at least two people, authorities said, as invading forces tightened their grip on the Ukrainian capital and the mayor announced a 35-hour curfew ...
Britain to ban exports of luxury goods to Russia, impose new import tariffs
Britain on Tuesday said it would ban the export of luxury goods to Russia and impose a new 35 per cent tariff on £900 million worth of Russian imports, including vodka, metals, ...
As West shuns Moscow, officials say India eyes more cheap Russian oil
India may take up a Russian offer to buy crude oil and other commodities at a discount, two Indian officials said, in a sign that Delhi wants to keep its ...
Three EU country leaders take train to Kyiv in show of support for Ukraine
The prime ministers of the Czech Republic, Poland and Slovenia were travelling to Kyiv by train on Tuesday to show support for the country on behalf of the EU, the ...
Ukraine hopes to open 9 humanitarian corridors, get aid to besieged Mariupol
Ukraine hopes to open nine corridors on Tuesday to evacuate civilians trapped by Russian forces and will try to deliver humanitarian supplies to the besieged port of Mariupol, said Deputy ...