#Russian US/EU sanctions

The United States issued a 30-day waiver for countries to buy sanctioned Russian oil and petroleum products currently stranded at sea, in what Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said was a ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin suggested on Wednesday that Russia could stop supplying gas to European markets now and move to more promising markets. The European Commission will submit a legal ...

One Cyprus-based company has been included on the latest US sanctions list targeting individuals and entities said to be aiding Russia’s war efforts. The US Treasury’s updated sanctions ...

France and the Netherlands are seeking European Union sanctions on any financial institution in the world that helps Russia’s military pay for goods or technology for making weapons, according ...

The government said on Wednesday that police were already investigating most of the cases in the ‘Cyprus Confidential’ report released a day earlier by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (...

Four people and two companies have been included on the latest list of entities sanctioned by the United States due to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The list was published ...

Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich on Wednesday will challenge European Union sanctions imposed on him after the Ukraine war, arguing that the restrictions were imposed simply because he is a well-known ...

Justice Minister Anna Koukkides – Prokopiou informed her EU counterparts of the creation of an independent authority to monitor the implementation of EU sanctions in Cyprus, during the second day of ...

The European Union should crack down on India reselling Russian oil into Europe as refined fuels including diesel, the EU’s high representative for foreign policy, Josep Borrell, said in ...

By Iole Damaskinos and Elias Hazou President Nikos Christodoulides on Tuesday said the government has received the first batch of information on natural and legal persons included on the US ...

The finance ministry on Friday hit back over reports Cyprus had a low amount of Russian oligarch assets frozen, compared to other EU counterparts. The ministry’s permanent secretary George ...

Strengthening the attorney general’s office in Cyprus, as well as sanctions against Russian and Belarusian entities on the island, were the main topics of discussion during the meeting between ...

Greece and Malta lag behind their European Union peers in freezing Russian assets sanctioned over Moscow’s war against Ukraine, according to an EU official and an internal document, as ...

European Union leaders wrapped up their last summit of 2022 with an agreement to provide 18 billion euros in financing to Ukraine next year and slap more sanctions on Russia as the ...

The fallout on Cyprus’ maritime shipping industry from EU sanctions has been ‘manageable’, the deputy minister for shipping said on Monday. Vasilis Demetriades made the remarks in parliament while presenting ...

The need for the EU to act in such a way as to send a clear message to Turkey that its behaviour is unacceptable was emphasised on Friday by President ...

The European Union gave its final approval for a new batch of sanctions against Russia over its war against Ukraine, the bloc’s executive arm in Brussels said on Wednesday. ...

Russian state-owned companies Rosneft and Gazprom will be able to ship oil to third countries under an adjustment of European Union sanctions agreed by member states this week aimed at ...

Only one in two Cypriots agree with EU’s sanctions against Russia as opposed to a whopping 80 per cent EU average, according to the latest Eurobarometer carried out this year. ...

The oil ban may not bring the pain to Russia that Brussels expects. The losers are the consumers The EU finally agreed on Thursday to impose a ban on seaborne ...

The European Union on Friday blacklisted Aleksandra Melnichenko, the wife of Andrey Melnichenko, a previously sanctioned Russian billionaire who Reuters revealed had reassigned his companies to her in a bid ...

President Nicos Anastasiades took part in a teleconference of EU leaders on Monday chaired by president of the European Council Charles Michel, centred on Russia’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine. ...

The far-reaching geopolitical effects are unfolding By Dr Andrestinos Papadopoulos The end of the Cold War following the dissolution of the Soviet Union left a situation based on promises, but ...

A senior government official said Tuesday that three individuals subject to EU sanctions in relation to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine hold a Cyprus passport, adding that checks are ongoing, ...