Ukraine Conflict: Impact On European & Asian Supply Chains: Daily Updates
In this section we provide daily news updates concerning the geo-political, commercial and trade impact created by the ongoing conflict in the Ukraine with an emphasis on European-Asian supply chains, trade and reinvestment.
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EU-Asia-Global Developing Commodities Shortages: May 2022
Friday, May 20
- Russian Businessman Agrees To Buy All Russian MacDonalds Outlets And Rebrand Them
- Russia’s E-Commerce Trade Since The Ukraine Conflict
- Trade and Technology Council + Chinese Debates on sanctions on Russia
- Russia Takes First Steps to Withdraw from WTO, WHO
- NATO Application Puts Finland’s Russian Trade on Thin Ice
- Renault’s Former Moscow Plant to Build Chinese Cars Under Moskvich Brand
- The West Must Break Russia’s Blockade – Or The World Will Starve
- Review Sanctions, Says Russia After UN’s Appeal Over Port Blockades
Thursday, May 19
- Will Russia Complete Iran’s Rasht-Astara Railway?
- Russia Launches Coca-Cola, Fanta and Sprite Alternatives After Soda Exodus
- Russia to Nationalize Renault Plant, Revive Soviet-Era Moskvitch Car After Handover
- Google’s Subsidiary in Russia to Start Bankruptcy Proceedings
- Free Google Services To Remain Accessible to Russian Users Despite Bankruptcy Plans
- iPhone Share Of Russian Market to Halve by 2024
- US Treasury Plans To Force Russia Into Default
Wednesday, May 18
- Ukraine Conflict Propels ‘Multilateral Momentum’ on China-Focused ‘NATO for Trade’
- EU, US Flaunt Joint Action To ‘Hammer’ Russia on Trade and Tech
- Delivery of Import-Substituting Electronic Parts to Russia’s Machinery Sector to Begin by Year End
- Impacts Of The Russia-Ukraine Conflict On Global Food Trade
- Putin Talks Up Importance Of Russia-Tajikistan Bilateral Trade
- Russia Exiting The Council of Baltic Sea States
Tuesday, May 17
- Turkey’s President Objects to Finland and Sweden’s NATO Applications
- European Commission projects Russia’s GDP will fall 10.4% in 2022, grow 1.5% in 2023
- McDonald’s To Exit Russia After 30 Years
- Black Sea Exports Down 35% In April
- Credit Bank of Moscow Receives License to Export Gold
Monday May 16
- Finland Confirms Intent To Join NATO
- Russia Is On Track For A Record Trade Surplus
- Novel Sanctions Against Business-Related Services Connected to Russia and Additional Export Restrictions
- Ban On Russian Gas Risks Reviving Populism in Europe
- UniCredit, Citi Consider Swapping Assets With Russian Institutions
Sunday May 15
- China, Russia Tipped To Power Up Energy Ties As Europe Weans Itself Off Putin’s Oil and Gas
- Western Trade and Transport Sanctions on Russia
- Global Diamond Trade Fractures Under The Weight of Russia Sanctions
- How Russian Is It?: A Very Crude Question
Saturday May 14
- Supply Chain Pressure To Persist, Leading To Permanent Changes In Trade
- Europe Battles To Secure Steel Following Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine
- Russia’s Inter RAO to Halt Power Exports to Finland Due Lack of Payment
Friday May 13
- Indian Businesses Take UAE Route for Russian Payments
- Russian Shipping Traffic Remains Strong as Sanctions Take Time to Bite
- Russia Overshadows EU-US Tech and Trade Talks
- Panic Grips Billion-Dollar Trade Over Russian Diamond Ban
- India Bans Wheat Exports To Tame Prices As Heatwave Curtails Output
- Kazakhstan Bans Sugar Exports For Six Months
- Japan To Ban Export Of High-Tech Equipment To Moscow
- Wildberries Ecommerce Opens Three New Logistics Centers in Russia
Thursday May 12
- Russian Oil Tankers Turn To Stealth Shipments Under Sanctions
- Russian Importers Reach Out to India’s Smaller Firms to Sidestep Sanctions
- Hyatt Removes Russia Hotels Effective Immediately
- Russia Oil Revenue Up 50% This Year Despite Boycott, IEA Says
- Russia’s Grain Harvest Could Total 130 Million Tonnes in 2022, Including Record Wheat Harvest
Wednesday May 11
- Turkey Looks To Kazakhstan To Form New Trade Route To Bypass Russia
- Trade In Times Of War: Indian Imports From Russia Rise 3x Since Ukraine
- Implications Of Russia’s Invasion Of Ukraine For Its Value Chains
- UK Announces Expansion of Trade Sanctions Against Russia and Belarus
- Russia Imposes Blocking Sanctions on Yamal-Europe Gas Pipeline
- Czechia Takes Russia’s Place In UN Human Rights Council
Tuesday May 10
- Russia And Belarus Sanctions And Export Controls: Update
- Renault’s Russia Exit Plans Mix Logic and Delusion
Monday May 9
- China-Russia Trade Up 25.9% in January-April
- Ukraine War Cuts Foreign Investors Off From Their Russian Assets
Sunday May 8
Saturday May 7
- Potential Economic Effects of Sanctions on Russia: An Allied Trade Embargo
- Russia Hails Growth In Trade With Central Asia Despite Turbulent Geopolitical Situation
Friday, May 6
- European-Asian Geopolitics – The Implications Of Shifting Supply Chains In Wake Of The Russia-Ukraine Conflict
- Russia Seeking to be Good Neighbors with Central Asia – Lavrov
- Russian Oil Ban – Details In Full
- Bulgaria To Seek Exemption from EU Russian Oil Embargo
- Italy Calls for Clarity on Putin’s Ruble Order as Gas Bills Loom
- Russian Economy Could Weather Impact of EU Oil Ban
- Supply Chain Bottleneck Warning Issued
- ‘We Are Already At Zero’: Italian Resort Counts Cost as Russian Visits Dry Up
Thursday, May 5
- Russia Averts Sovereign Default
- Ruble Hits Two Year High Against Dollar & Euro
- EU Imposes New Sanctions Russia Oil & Orthodox Church Patriarch
- UK Bans Provision Of Services To Russian Businesses
- German Exports To Russia Sink
- Russian Conflict Leads EU To Push For Faster Trade Deals
- Russia Blacklists Japanese Prime Minister
- Ukraine Begins Process To Cancel Russian Double Tax Agreement
- Moscow Court Freezes Google’s Russian Assets
Wednesday, May 4
- Anti-Russia sanctions not to be removed without Moscow-Kiev agreements — Scholz
- EU threatens Russia with fresh SWIFT restrictions
- Oil trade patterns will be radically reshaped by the Russia-Ukraine conflict
- EU may offer Hungary, Slovakia exemptions from Russian embargo
- We’ve to look after our interests: Hardeep Puri on India’s oil trade with Russia
- Russia-Ukraine Conflict: How Nigeria Can Facilitate International Trade
- Russia-China dirty tanker trade soars 94% after Ukraine invasion
Tuesday, May 3
- Why Sanctions Against Russia May Not Work
- Hungary Opposes Ban on EU’s Import of Russian Energy Resources
- Ten EU Countries Quietly Buying Russian Gas With Rubles
- EU to Terminate Russian Coal Imports in Summer
- Huge Rise in Russian Gas Supplies to China
- Japan Pushes Ahead With Plan to Add Russian Gas Imports
- Renault To Sell Russian Assets For One Ruble
- Turkey’s Gemlik Port Transshipments Shoot Up March & April
Monday, May 2
- China’s UnionPay Shuns Russian Banks as Sanctions Force Caution
- Bank of Russia Lowers Key Rate by 3 Percentage Points to 14% per annum
- Sberbank to Make Coupon Payments on Dollar-Denominated Eurobonds In Rubles
- Gazprom Terminates Depositary Receipts Listing on London, Singapore Exchanges
- Serbia Promises Decision on Russia Sanctions
- Citing War, Georgia’s Borjomi Suspends Production
- Sanction the Right People in Russia
EU-Asia Supply Chain Disruptions: April 2022
Friday, April 29
- European Gas Firms Seek Ways To Pay After Putin’s Rubles Demand
- India’s FIEO Calls For A Way For Rupee-Ruble Trade with Russia
- Bank of Russia Seeks to Allow Stock Exchanges to Trade Digital Assets
- Russian Industry & Trade Ministry Intends to Coordinate with Foreign Automakers on Operations in Russia by Summer
- Russian GDP Growth Slowed to 1.6% in March, Estimated at 3.7% in Q1 – Economics Ministry
- Estonia Approves Ban on Procurements from Russian Companies & Individuals
- Inchcape Leaving Russia, Selling Business to Local Management for €76 million
Thursday, April 28
- Gazprom Suspends Gas Supplies to Bulgaria, Poland Due to Failure to Pay in Rubles
- European Gas Prices Soar After Supply Disruption
- Estonia Not Planning To Pay for Russian Gas in Rubles
- Bulgaria to Receive Azerbaijani Gas through Greek Gas Interconnector in Late Q3
- Rubles-for-Gas Scheme Does Not Undermine Sanctions – Uniper
- Schneider Electric to Sell Russian Assets to Local Management
- Russia Set to Withdraw from UN World Tourism Organisation
- China Issues ‘Color Revolution’ Warning
- Where is Transnistria and Why is it Being Drawn into Ukraine Conflict?
Wednesday, April 27
- Breaking: Russia Cuts Gas Supplies To Bulgaria & Romania, EU Gas Prices Immediately Rise 24%
- Russian Commodities Exports Down in March
- U.K. Bans More Exports to Russia, Cuts Ukraine Tariffs
- Russian Retailer Magnit Opening First Store in Uzbekistan, Planning To Expand
- Russia Wants To Increase Settlements in National Currencies with BRICS, EAEU, SCO Countries
- Belarus Finalizing Connection to Chinese Version of SWIFT
- Western Supply Lines To Ukraine Destroyed
- Rostacom Estimates Northern Sea Passage Traffic To Remain Similar To 2021 Levels
- Russian GDP Could Shrink 10-12% in 2022, 2023 Figure Uncertain
Tuesday, April 26
- NATO Looking At Marine Navy Escorts In Black Sea
- Turkey At Odds With NATO Over Black Sea Plans
- Russian Ruble Emerges Stronger Three Months Into Ukraine Conflict
- Bank of Russia Changes Daily Time In Announcing Official Exchange Rates
- Russia Urges Allies To Dump Dollar & Euro In Trade
- Rotterdam Port Feels Pain Of Russian Sanctions
- Air Lease to Write Off Value of 27 Jets Stranded in Russia
- Hotel Groups Under Pressure To Exit Russian Assets
Monday, April 25
- How Russia Avoided Economic Run Despite Sanctions
- Russian Oil Exports Resilient to Sanctions & Boycotts as Trade Routes Adjust
- EU Ship Fuel Runs Low As Russian Trade Flows Shift
- The Coming Russian Struggle for New Markets for its Oil
- The Economic Cost OF Trade Restrictions On Russia
- US Signals Iran-Type Ban On Russia Trade
- Indian Exporters Get Pending Payments for Shipments Made to Russia
- Armenia & Russia To De-Dollarize Bilateral Trade
- Russia’s Amsterdam Trade Bank Declared Bankrupt
- Russia Blocks Economic Data, Hiding Effect Of Western Sanctions
Sunday, April 24
- UN Secretary-General To Meet Putin, Lavrov In Moscow On Tuesday
- VTB: Russian Default Out Of The Question – Financial Situation Is Stable
- UK To Open First New Coal Mine In Thirty Years
- Germany Can’t ‘Isolate Russia’ – Schroeder
- Global Growth Forecast Slashed
Saturday, April 23
- Breaking: UK PM Johnson Says ‘Russian Victory A Realistic Possibility’
- Russia To Secure Nuclear-Free, Neutral Status of Ukraine — Russian Ambassador to US
- EU Fails To Agree Russian Energy Ban
- Abrupt Embargo on Russian Gas Harmful for German, European Economy — Scholz
- Central Bank Survey Says Russia’sEconomic Outlook Has Worsened
- Russian Inflation To Hit 22% in 2022, GDP Fall 9.2%, Zero 2023 Growth – Analysts
- Russia Unveils Plans for Digital Ruble, Domestic PaymentSystem
- Sovcombank To Offer Eurobond Holders Exchange For New Russian Bonds
- Russia Classifies Its Customs Data
- Mark Zuckerberg Banned From Russia
- Russia’s RZD Logistics Eyes Incresed Caspian & INSTC Shipments
- VEB Consortium Plans To Establish Chinese JV For Wind Farm Production In Russia
Friday, April 22
- ‘Worst Crisis Since The Second World War’ – Germany & Gas Imports
- Russian Government Focused On Operations Of Foreign Companies In Russia
- Novatek Working On Launching, Financing Arctic LNG 2 Pipeline
- Central Bank: Russia Can Use Available Gold, Forex Reserves To Pay For Imports
- VTB Pays Subordinated Dollar Eurobonds in Rubles
- Kazakhstan’s CenterCredit Buying Russia’s Alfa-Bank Subsidiary
- Russian Central Bank’s Key Lending Rate To Return To 7%-7.5% Once Inflation Returns To 4%
Thursday, April 21
- OFSI Updates Its Russia Sanctions Guidelines
- Russia Reaps Rewards of Domestic Payment System After Visa and Mastercard Withdraw
- Japan Revokes Russia’s ‘Most Favoured Nation’ Status
- UK Tax Service Revokes MOEX Status
- EU To Pay For Most Of Ukraine’s Reconstruction
- Construction of Cargo Fleet for Northern Sea Passage Sees Cooperation With Chinese, South Korean Shipyards
- SAP To End Service In Russia
- Almost 200,000 Workers In Russia Still On Western Payrolls
Wednesday, April 20
- Eurasian Development Bank Buys Back US$200 Million 2022 Bonds
- Russia’s Conflict With Ukraine Means Market Forces Can No Longer Dominate Trade
- Russia, Iran, Discuss Joint National Food Security Programmes
- India Set To Boost Russian Energy Imports
- Russia Seeks Medical Equipment From India as War Disrupts Trade
- India Restarts Tea, Rice, Other Exports To Russia
- Murmansk & Indiga Ports Set To Receive Increased Energy Export Infrastructure
- Minsk, Moscow Discussing Increased Trade & Economic Cooperation
Tuesday, April 19
- Situation in Russian Economy, Ruble Exchange Rate Stabilizing
- Putin: Western ‘Economic Blitzkrieg’ Has Failed
- China’s Russia Trade Up 28.7% In Q1 2022
- Bank of Russia Starts Legal Battle For Its Frozen Reserves
- Russian Companies Can Maintain Listings On Foreign Exchanges Until May 5
- Russian Government Backs Subsidizing Of Interest Rates For Arctic, Far East Russia Projects
- Russian State Budget Must Effectively Saturate Economy With Liquidity Amid Credit Squeeze
Monday, April 18
- Congress Votes to Impose Trade Punishments on Russia and Belarus, Will Consider Tax and Procurement Measures
- Global – Russia Sanctions Tracker
- China-Russia 2022 Trade Surges 30%
- Fitch Ratings Opinions On 2022 CIS States Growth Rates
- Russia Boosts Fertilizer Exports By 700,000 Tonnes
- First China-Russia Railway Bridge Will Boosting Trade, Slash Delivery Times
- No Rupee-Ruble Trade With Russia: India Commerce Secretary
- Russia-Ukraine Conflict Puts Fragile Global Trade Recovery At Risk
Sunday, April 17
- Russia’s European Goodbye
- Moscow Bans UK Prime Minister, Foreign, And Other Senior Ministers From Visiting Russia
- US Urged To Issue Visa Ban For UK Lawyers Representing Russian Oligarchs
- Ukrainian Oligarch Vows To Rebuild Mariupol
- Russia’s Ruble Standoff With EU Risks De Facto Gas Embargo
- Russia Lifting Restrictions On Agriculture Imports From Turkey
- Russia Working To Legalize Crypto
- Uzbekistan Concerned About Sanctions Banking Risks
- West Must Prepare For The ‘Coming Collapse Of Russia’
Saturday, April 16
- Russia Near To Defaulting On Debts: Moodys
- Russia’s China Trade Up 12% In March Over 2021 Figures
- Russia-Germany Trade Rupture Could Cause Global Financial Shock
- Russia Positions Itself For Move To A Gold Standard
- Wall Street Details Russia Losses And Warns Of Volatility
- Several Russian Gas Purchasers Agree To Pay In Rubles
- Russian Trucks In Long Queues To Leave Poland As EU Sanctions Deadline Nears
Friday, April 15
- Beijing To Act Over Sanctions Pressures On Its Companies
- Russia’s EU Borders & Trade Compared With Russia’s Asian Borders & Trade
- Russia-China Trade Surges In 2022
- Russian Central Bank Believes Russia Banks Could Lose Half Their Capital But Still Survive
- IMF: Ukraine Is Massive Set Back For Global Recovery
- Russian Oil Is Rebounding, But Exports Must Travel Much Further
- After Buying Cheap Russian Oil, India Is Now Looking At Russian Coal
- The Simple Economics Of Tariffs On Russian Energy Exports
Thursday, April 14
- Initial Restructuring Of Russian Economy To Take Two Years If Sanctions Remain In Place
- Energy, Military & Technical Cooperation Priorities For Russia & India
- Russia Expects Pakistan Stream Gas Pipeline To Continue
- Russian Airlines To Receive New Russian-Built PD-14 Aero Engines From 2024
- Foreign Suppliers Begin Returning Advance Payments To Russia For Agricultural Equipment
- Russian Foreign Debt Falls To 13 Year Low
- European Space Agency Discontinues Cooperation With Russia
Wednesday, April 13
- Russia Relies On ‘Payment Theatre’ As Bondholders Prepare For Default
- Borrowers Advised To Remit Separate Payments to Russian, Foreign Eurobond Holders, and Redeem in Rubles
- Russia’s Capital Outflows Reached US$50 Billion In February-March
- Putin Assures Russia It Will Not Shrink Into Isolation
- Putin: Russia, Belarus Must Enhance Integration Amid Western Sanctions
- Hollywood Stops Releasing Films In Russia
Tuesday, April 12
- Kremlin Will Take Legal Action If Russia Is Pushed To Default
- Lavrov: Ukraine Invasion Meant To End US Global Dominance
- Austrian Chancellor: Talks With Putin Were Open, Harsh, and Direct
- SocGen To Exit Russia With Sale Of Business To Oligarch
- Seizure Of Russian Diplomatic Property May Impact Both Parties
- Russia Preparing Countermeasures Over EU Blacklisting Airlines
- Russia Expecting To Reach Full Replacement Imports For Rail By 2024
Monday, April 11
- World Bank Sees Russian GDP Shrinking 11.2%, Investment Falling 17%
- US Votes To Suspend Russia Trade Status
- US Suspends ‘Most Favored Nation’ Status For Russia. This Is What it Means
- Russian Developers Launch Service To Transfer Channels From YouTube To VKontakte
- South Ossetia’s Presidential Election Ruled Valid
- Ukraine Needs An Ambitious Marshall Plan
- Oil And Gas Revenues Give Russia A US$3.4 Billion Cushion
- Despite Sanctions, The Russian Ruble Just Hit A Four Month High. Why?
- Standard & Poors Lowers Russia’s Foreign Currency Rating
- Iran-Russia Trade Expected To Top US$10 Billion In Two Years
Sunday, April 10
- Soaring Fertilizer Prices Sending Food Inflation Through The Roof
- Indian Central Bank Cuts Growth Forecast On Ukraine Fears
- Ukraine May Get EU Candidate Status In June
- Former SWIFT CEO Calls For Tightening Russian Sanctions
- Swedbank Ceasing Financial Transactions With Russia and Belarus
Saturday, April 9
- Medvedev: Unprecedented Sanctions On Russia Will Collapse International Institutions
- Russian, Belarus Nationals Open 12,000 Bank Accounts In Kazakhstan In Six Weeks
- Russia Bans UK Think Tank Chatham House
- Bank Of Russia Cuts Key Rate To 17%, More Reductions Could Follow
- Russian Government Increases Industrial Loan Finance By US$1.55 Billion
- Sanctions On Russian Ships In EU Ports Does Not Apply To Agricultural Or Energy Products
- Russia Redirects Planned EU Coal Exports To Other Markets
- Russia Redirecting Oil Supplies To Asia
- Russia’s Increasing Partnerships In Central Asia, Turkmenistan & Caspian
- Chinese Foreign Minister: Ukraine Crisis Caused By Imbalance In European Security System
- Belarus Suspends Payments To ‘Unfriendly’ Foreign Residents
- Japan Bans New Investment In Russia In Addition To Vodka & Timber Imports
Friday, April 8
- Russia’s March Industrial Production Rises 4.5% Despite Sanctions
- Financial Warfare: Will There Be A Backlash Against The Dollar?
- Banks Seek Clarity Against ‘Over-Compliance’ With Russia Sanctions
- These Companies Are Struggling To Leave Russia
- Ukraine Conflict Reverberates In Europe’s Factories
- Russia’s Ministry of Finance Suggests Russian Banks Forgo 2022 Dividends
- Cryptocurrencies Cannot be Used As Payment In Russia
- Shell Writes Down US$5 Billion After Offloading Russian Assets
Thursday, April 7
- Global Trade Falls 2.8% As Russia’s Ukraine Conflict Hits Container Traffic
- Where Global Trade In The Shipping Industry Is Most Affected
- DeGlobalisation: Will Backlash Against Russia Lead To A Trade Downturn?
- Putin Advisor Vows Legal Battles Over Attempts To Seize Russian Assets
- Serbia To Maintain Friendship With Russia While Seeking EU Membership
- Additional US Sanctions To Ban Investment Into Russia
- China Calls On US To Remove Russian Sanctions To Resolve Ukraine Conflict
Wednesday, April 6
- Impact Of The Ukrainian Conflict On China & Asia: Regional Overviews
- Inflationary Forces Spell Long Term Trouble For Central Banks
- EU Expels 200 Russian Diplomats In Past Two Days
- Russian Agriculture To Receive (Rubles Equivalent) Of US$1.8 Billion In Soft Loans
- Paks2 Hungary Nuclear Power Deal Continues With Russia’s Rostacom
- Russian Lada Factory Town ‘”Going Out Of Business”
- “Not My Yacht” How Western Offshore Structures Cloud Oligarch Ownership
Tuesday, April 5
- US Stops Russia From Making Bond Payments
- World Bank: Ukraine Conflict To Slow Economic Growth In Asia
- Asia-Pacific Trade Ties Mean China Can Avoid Criticizing Russia
- Global Grain Worth US$163 Billion Withdrawn From Markets By Russia
- World Looks To Replace Russia In Trade
- Putin Ends ‘Simplified Visas’ For Unfriendly Countries
- Belarus To Export Products Via Russia, China
Monday, April 4
- Mocow Outbound Investment Back Offices Move To Dubai
- Sanctions On Russian Individuals: Where Is The Due Process?
- Russia To Increase Use Of Alternative Trade In Currencies
- Russia, India To Trade In Non-Western Currencies
- US Warns Of Consequences Over India’s Rupee-Ruble Trade Deal With Russia
- “Language Of Coercion, Not Diplomacy” – India Hits Back At US Sanctions Threats
- Iran Wants To Trade With Russia In National Currencies
- Imran Khan Claims United States Threatened Him And Wants To See Him Ousted
- Global Lumber Trade Flows Halted By Russian Sanctions
- Russia Sanctions Create Trade Fallout For Trade Credit Insurers
Sunday, April 3
- Russia-Ukraine Conflict Will Have A Multifold Impact On The Global Business Environment
- China Says Trade With Russia Will Remain Unaffected
- Russia Pushes Alternatives To SWIFT To Keep Trade Going
- Ukraine — In A War Of Rival Imperialisms, Whoever Wins, We Lose
- Bitcoin May Serve Many Masters In The War In Ukraine
Saturday, April 2
- Russia, India Will Find Ways To Trade: Lavrov
- Gazprom Is Notifying Counterparts On New Payment Procedures
- Shell Unable To Buy Russian Gas
- China Warns Of Spectre Of Trouble For Asia Plotted By US
- EU Pushes China To Rethink Russia Ties
- China Calls On EU To Act Independently Of United States
- Russia-Ukraine Supply Chain Impact
- Aircraft Parts Can be Made In Kazan By 2023
- Kazakhstan To Abide By Wests Sanctions On Russia
Friday, April 1
- Corporate Rejection Of Russia Marks New Era Of Political Risk
- Central Bank of Russia Eases Restrictions On Money Transfers Abroad For ‘Friendly Countries’
- EU: Snow & Freezing Weather Set To Return To Europe
- Putin Signs Order For Gas Supplies To EU Be Paid In Rubles Or Be Cut Off On April 1
- Putin Says EU Gas Buyers Need Ruble Accounts From April 1
- Russia Sanctions Will Reduce US Dollar Dominance: IMF
- EU Leaders Pressed To Impose Sanctions On China
- West Unlikely To Cease Sanctioning Russia For Next Decade: Putin
- Share Of Domestic Russian-Built Commercial Aircraft Must Grow Substantially
- Russia To Ban Exports Of Rapeseed, Sunflower Seeds And Oils From April 1
- EBRD Expects Russian GDP To Shrink 10%
Impact Of Sanctions On Russia: March 2022
Thursday, March 31
- Why Is Vladimir Putin Demanding Russian Gas Is Paid For In Rubles?
- Russia Adds Chemicals, Components, Food To Duty-Free List
- Japan Has No Plans To Leave Sakhalin-2 Project
- Central Bank of Russia Lifts Ban On Short-Selling Russian Stocks
- Russia’s Pivot To Asia: New Issue Of Asia Investment Research
- Medvedev: West Has Failed To Globally Bind Russia, Was Prepared For Sanctions
- China, Russia Stand Firm On ‘New, Fair, Multipolar World Order’
- Oligarchs On UK Sanctions List Were Granted ‘Golden Visas’
- China Warns Against Western Powers Turning Asian Countries Into Political ‘Tools’
- Russian Foreign Minister Says China, Russia, Part Of ‘Emerging, Just World Order’
- Beijing Praises Russian-Chinese Cooperation ‘In Resisting Hegemony’
- South Ossetian President Say Republic Will Join Russia
- Putin, Scholz Talk, Discuss Rubles Payment For Russian Gas
- Russian Ministry Of Trade Proposes Allocating Rubles 55 Billion To Auto Industry
- Belarus Making International Payments In Chinese RMB Yuan
Wednesday, March 30
- Germany Close To Gas Rationing As It Activates Emergency Fuel Plans
- Russian Railways Send First Train To Finland As Services Resume
- Beijing Praises Russian-Chinese Cooperation In Resisting Hegemony
- China Warns Against Turning Asian Countries Into Western Tools
- Russian Foreign Minister Praises China As Part Of New Emerging World Order
- Russian State Duma Suggests Expanding List Of Russian Exported Goods To Be Paid For In Rubles
- Outcome Of Istanbul Talks
- Russia’s Pivot To Central Asia
- Russians Eye Departed Western Brands Trademarks
- Johnson & Johnson, Decathlon, Depart Russia
- Russia Unveils Domestic Instagram Competitor, ‘Rossgram’
- Economic Development Ministry Proposes De-Listing Russian Securities On International Exchanges
- VTB Removes Brand Name From Investment & Brokerage Assets Ahead Of Transfer To Third Parties
Tuesday, March 29
- Russia’s Eurochem To Buy Controlling Stake In Brazil’s Fertilizantes Heringer
- Japan Bans Sales Of Luxury Cars To Russia
- National Depository Received Funds To Pay Russia’s 2035 Bond
- World Bank: Ukraine Conflict Will Create Poverty In Developing Economies
- Russia Works On Visa Moves Against ‘Unfriendly Countries’
- List Of Public Companies Still Operating In Russia
- G7 Rejects Russian Plan To Sell Gas In Rubles
- Russia’s Pivot To Asia: India
- Will The Russia-Ukraine Conflict Affect Biopharmaceutical Licensing Agreements?
- Carlsberg To Sell Russia’s Biggest Brewer ‘Baltica’
- Dnipro Water Fills North Crimean Canal After 8 Years
Monday, March 28
- Putin, Erdogan Agree To Hold Tomorrow’s Russia-Ukraine Meeting In Istanbul
- Zelenskiy Says Ukraine Willing To Discuss Neutrality
- Finland Halts Freight Rail Traffic With Russia
- Heineken Leaves Russia, Hands Business To Local Partner
- Russia’s Western Partners ‘Will Adjust’ To Paying For Gas In Rubles
- Sinopec Cancels US$380 Million Investment Into Russia
- Jersey, Guernsey Suspend Russia Tax Cooperation
- Isle Of Man Halts Russian Tax Cooperation
- Monaco Clamps Down On Russian Owned Assets
- Renewed Spotlight On Caymans As Russia Tax Haven
- Russia Drops Gold Tax To Encourage Savers to Dump Dollars
- Putin’s ‘Rubles For Russian Gas’ Demand Is A Security Threat
Sunday, March 27
- Blinken Says US Is Not Seeking Russian Regime Change
- Russia’s Invasion Is Crushing China’s Belt And Road Ambitions (Oil Price)
- China’s ‘No Limits’ Relationship With Russia Is Under Strain (Commonspace)
- War In Ukraine Is Hamstringing China’s ‘Belt And Road’ (Responsible Statescraft)
- China-Russian Relations Carry Deep Memories Of Mutual Respect – And Scorn (The Observer)
Saturday, March 26
- Breaking: Polish General Wants Kaliningrad Returned
- Investors Bet Ukraine War Will Prompt Companies To Bring Production Onshore
- EU Readies Tough New Sanctions On EU, Ukraine
- Need For Russian Central Bank Cryptocurrency Regulations
- Can Russian Retailers Survive?
Friday, March 25
- Russian Shares Rise As Moscow Stock Exchange Reopens
- Private Investors Accounted For over 50% Of Equities Trading After MOEX Reopening
- Hedge Funds Search For Bargains In Russian Bonds
- BlackRock’s Fink Says Ukraine War Marks The End Of Globalization
- US Economic War Against Russia Will Collapse Bilateral Relations
- The Impact Of Foreign Investors Leaving Russia On The Russian Commercial Real Estate Market
- New UK Sanctions Target Sberbank CEO And More Russian Banks
Thursday, March 24
- The West Is Rash To Assume The World Is On Its Side Over Ukraine
- Breaking: Moscow Stock Exchange Reopens To Trading Of 30 Stocks, Early Gains Of 10%
- Russia To Lift Border Crossing Restrictions In Kazakhstan & Mongolia
- Russian Renewables Projects Likely To See One-Two Year Delays
- Russia Extends Closure Of Southern Airports Until April 1st.
- South Korea To Recommence Visa-Free Travel For Russians From April 1st
- Russia To Decide Buying out Foreign Aircraft Ownership Worth US$20 Billion
- Russian Sovereign Wealth Fund Declined By US$6.8 Billion In February
- Google Confirms Restricted Russia Access
- Renault Suspends Russia Production
- New Risk Assessment Protocols For Foreign Investors In Russia
- Russian Stock Market To Reopen Today (Thursday) After Unpredecented Pause
- Putin Orders Gas Supplies To ‘Unfriendly Countries’ To Be Paid For In Rubles Only
- Russia’s Aviation Regulator Clears Rossiya To Carry Out Boeing, Airbus Maintenance
- Russia Introduces Aluminum Nitrate Export Ban
- Nestle Stops Production And Sales Of Non-Essential Goods In Russia
- Some Anti-Russia Protests Are Empty Gestures
Wednesday, March 23
- More Than 1 Million China-EU Containers Now Stuck At Belarus, Russian Ports
- Russian Prosecutor General’s Office Leaving International Association of Prosecutors
- What All The Big Law Firms Are Saying About Future Russia Business
- Evraz Confirms Transfer Of Eurobonds Due Payments
- Breaking: Russia To Be Excluded From G20 Talks
- EU To Set Up Trust Fund To Reconstruct Ukraine
- Russian Economy Faces ‘Massive Structural Changes’: Central Bank
- Russian Industry and Trade Ministry, Steelmakers Agree To Move From LME, Calculate Domestic Prices in Rubles
- Russia, Iran To Begin Banking And Finance Cooperation
- Malaysia, Vietnam, Oppose Russian Sanctions
- East German Business Lobby Defends Continued Activities in Russia
- Maersk Closes Russian Operations
- 800 Passenger Jet Aircraft Re-Registered In Russia, 78 Impounded Overseas
- New Sapsan High Speed Train Contract Suspended
Tuesday, March 22
- Russia Terminates Peace Treaty Talks With Japan
- Renault Resumes Car Production In Russia
- $17 Billion Of Global Assets Linked To 35 Russians With Links To Vladimir Putin
Monday, March 21
- Breaking: Russia has reopened the Moscow Stock Exchange today (Monday), resuming trading exclusively in federal government bonds.
- US Threatens Chinese Banks With SWIFT Disconnection
- Moody’s Analytics Sees Only Small APAC Impact On Supply Chain Losses
- India To Boost Wheat Exports In Light Of Ukraine Shortages
- Polish Authorities Seek To Confiscate Russian Property & Assets
- France Freezes Russian Central Bank’s Assets Worth Euro 22 Billion
- Russia Turns To Gold, Platinum, Diamonds and Rare Earths As Ruble Value Diminishes
- Russia Reschedules Belarus’ Debt For 5-6 Years
Sunday, March 20
- Medvedev: Russia’s Economy Won’t Collapse
- Ukraine War Sparking Turmoil In Global Markets
- Turkey: Russia’s Case For New Security Architecture Must Be Heard
- Prince Michael Quits As Head Of Russia-Britian Business Council
- Australia Bans Exports Of Aluminum Ores and Bauxite to Russia
- Halliburton Ceases Operations In Russia
Saturday, March 19
- Breaking: US senators have introduced a new bill that prevents China from using CIPS – its SWIFT alternative – to conduct financial transactions with Russia. Chinese banks that use CIPS for cross-border payments with Russia will be removed from the SWIFT network. The bill aims to deflect a challenge from China and Russia to dedollarize global finance.
- Russia Avoids Sovereign Debt Default
- Biden and Xi Fail To Bridge Differences Over Russia and Ukraine
- India Adopts a ‘Balanced Position’ Over Ukraine
- Transition To Rubles In EAEU In Customs Settlements By Belarus & Russia; Armenia, Kazakhstan And Kyrgyzstan To Keep Using Dollars
- Central Bank Of Russia Holds Key Rate At 20%
- If Regime Change Came To Moscow
- UK Revokes RT’s License To Broadcast
Friday, March 18
- What Happens When A Major Economy Can’t Pay Its Debt In Dollars? We’re About To Find Out
- China’s Turning Point: Will It Side With Russia And Divide The World?
- From Pasta Shortages To Iodine Pills, Panic Buying Hits Europe
- UK Suspends Tax Cooperation With Russia
- Russian Businesses Looking At Asia May Open Bank Accounts In Some ASEAN Countries
Thursday, March 17
- Russia Makes Bond Payment, Up To US To Execute It And Pay Out
- Putin Appreciates Foreign Companies Staying In Russia
- Latest On Russia-India Trade And Ruble-Rupee Payment Corridors
- India Aims To Become World’s Largest Wheat Exporter
- Russian Digital Development Ministry Proposes Elimination Of Import Duties on Electronic Products
- Samsung Pay Will Continue To Work In Russia
- Russia Expelled From Council Of Europe
- Sheremetyevo Shutting Third Runway, Pausing Investment Projects as Air Traffic Plummets
- Munich Re Not To Renew Expiring Russian Insurance Contracts
Wednesday, March 16
- How Will Sanctions Against Russia Impact Global Trade?
- US Senators Unveil Bipartisan Bill To Seize Russian Assets
- Goodbye Petrodollar? Saudi To Pay For Oil In Chinese RMB
- Fitch Downgrades 31 Russian Banks To ‘CC’
- Russia May Be Able To Pay Off Sovereign Debt Default Using Gold Reserves
- Russia Places Personal Sanctions On Biden, Blinken
- Instagram Exit Hits Russia’s SMEs
Tuesday, March 15
- Breaking: The UK will deny Russia and Belarus access to WTO most-favoured nation tariffs for hundreds of their exports, with an initial list of goods now facing additional 35% tariffs. Russian vodka is among products affected by the increases, while a UK export ban to Russia affects areas such as luxury vehicles, high-end fashion and works of art going from the UK to Russia.
- China Declares ‘It Must Not Be Affected’ By Russia Sanctions
- India Looks To Boost Non-US Dollar Trade With Russia
- Three Belarus Banks Cut Off From SWIFT Move To Russia’s SPFS
- Southern, Russia-Avoiding Belt & Road Multimodal Route Receives First China Blockchain Rail Cargo In Azerbaijan For Dispersal To Turkey, Bulgaria And Romania
- Unblocking Caucasus Transport Corridors Between Russia & Azerbaijan
- Sanctions Spell The End Of Cheap Russian Biomass Wood Pellets
- Blinken Ready To Meet With Lavrov Next Week
- Gazprom Continues Supplying Gas on Schedule for Transit via Ukraine
- Belarussian PM Says Western Companies Will Regret Exiting Russia
- Minsk & Moscow Agree To Stop Using US Dollar In Settlements
- Three Belarus Banks Cut Off From SWIFT, Switch To SPFS
- Russian Wheat Exports Plunge
- Kyrgyzstan Prepares For Russian Emigre Influx
Monday, March 14
- Putin Signs Law On Foreign Aircraft Registration Rights
- Eurobond Payment in Rubles Will Be Fulfillment of Obligations
- Breaking: South Korea’s Hyundai Merchant Marine has halted container shipping services to Russia’s Far Eastern Ports, Korean Air cancels Seoul-Vladivostok flights.
- Exemptions from FX restrictions for branches, dividends, and accounts of Russian residents
- British-American Tobacco Leaving Russia
- Azko-Nobel Expects Russia Business Operations To Collapse
- Wealthy Russians Turn To Dubai To Park Their Wealth
- US National Security Advisor: Beijing Will Face Sanctions If It Helps Moscow
- How Could US Sanctions On Russia Speed Up De-Dollarization And Help The Rise Of The Chinese RMB Yuan?
- Breaking: Senior Chinese Minister Yang Jiechi is meeting with the U.S. National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan in Rome today to discuss Ukraine.
- Russia’s Invasion To Have Enormous Impact On World Food Supplies
- Turkey Will Not Join Western Sanctions Against Russia
- Serbia Will Remain Neutral And Will Not Join NATO
- Half Of Russia’s Foreign Exchange Reserves Frozen: Finance Minister
- Bermuda Grounds 768 Russian Aircraft Registered There For Airworthiness
Sunday, March 13
- Breaking: Russian Central Bank to keep Stock Exchange closed until March 18. Date for trading in shares yet to be decided.
- Revised Russian 2022 GDP And Economic Forecast
- Russia’s War Heralds A Dark Isolated Economic Era
- US To Ban Imports Of Russian Vodka, Seafood & Diamonds From March 25
- Sanctions Could See Creditors Lose Billions In Russian Loans
Saturday, March 12
- Breaking: US To Establish Legal Authority To Ban Any Investment In Russia
- US, Allies, To Revoke Russia’s ‘Most Favored Nation’ Status
- Washington Bans Dollar Supply To Russia
- G7 Nations Drawing Up Plans To Impose Heavy Tariffs On Russia
- Marriott Suspends Planned Russia Expansion
- UEFA Suspends Russia From All International Football Activities
- Deutsche Bank Winding Down Business In Russia
- Avon Cosmetics To Relocate Production From Russia To Poland
- Russia Media Watchdog Restricts Instagram Access
- Russia To Launch Criminal Case Against Facebook
Friday, March 11
- Breaking: EU won’t impose sanctions on Russian gas or oil
- What Happens If Russia Can’t Pay Its Debts After Western Sanctions?
- Russia Asks For UN Security Council Meeting On Ukrainian Biolabs
- Facebook, Instagram, To Permit Calls For Violence Against Russian Citizens
- What Will The Blowback Be From Anti-Russian Sanctions?
- EU Leaders Reject Ukraine’s Fast-Track Membership Application
- Beijing Vows Harsh Measures If US Imposes Sanctions On It Concerning Ukraine
- Russian, Chinese Diplomats Hold Wide Ranging Talks
- Lavrov: ‘Never Again Will We Rely Upon Or Trust The West’
- Russian Oligarch Superyachts Being Hunted After Sanctions
- Abramovich Unable To Sell Chelsea FC After New Sanctions And Freezing Of Assets
- Western Union Suspends Russia Transaction Services
- Russian Sanctions Create Stock Market Profiteering Frenzy In Asian Markets
- Russia May ‘Nationalise’ Assets Of Ikea, Apple and McDonalds
Thursday, March 10
- UK freezes assets of seven Russian oligarchs including Roman Abramovich
- Russia To Cease Participation With Council Of Europe
- Toyota Halts Production & Parts Exports To Russia
- Concerns Over Grain Shortages As Wheat Prices Reaches 14-Year High
- Russia To Look For Aircraft Maintenance & Spare Parts Alternatives In India, China, Turkey
- Breaking: Sri Lanka’s Bank of Ceylon permits foreign passport holders with tourist visas to open USD / Euro accounts
- US Threatens China Over Russia Trade
- UK Orchestra Bans Tchaikovsky From Its Classical Repertoire
- Russia‘s UAC To Increase Production Of Commercial Aircraft
- Breaking: Carlsberg, KFC suspend operations in Russia
- Impact Of Russia-Ukraine Conflict On FIEs In China
- New EU Sanctions Target Belarus
- Amazon Quits Deliveries To Belarus & Russia
- Agri, Pharma Can Emerge As Key Trade Areas Of India’s Cooperation With Russia
- US Oil Import Ban Will Case Russia To Shift To Asian Markets
- Preparations Made With Belarus To Connect It With Chernobyl Operational Grid
Wednesday, March 9
- Russian Bond Default Imminent: Fitch
- Saudi & UAE Leaders Deny Calls From Biden Over Oil
- Breaking: Russia’s Central Bank allows Russians with foreign currency accounts to withdraw US$10,000 in cash until September 9th.
- Breaking: McDonalds, Pepsi, Coca-Cola, Starbucks all exit Russia market
- US Negotiating With WTO Over Russia’s Membership
- Breaking: US To Ban Imports Of Russian Oil
- Putin Signs Russian Anti-Crisis Domestic Economic Package
- Chinese Foreign Ministry Position On Russia And Ukraine
- China Wants US Answers Over Military Biolabs In Ukraine
- Russia Examines Legal Protocols For Seizure Of Foreign Assets
- Japan’s JCB Card Payment System Ceases Work In Russia
- Turkey May Use Ruble For Russian Trade
Tuesday, March 8
- CISCO Systems Departs Russia
- Coinbase Cryptocurrency Platform Blocks 25,000 Russian Accounts
- Japan Unveils New Russia Sanctions
- Breaking: Mutual US/Russian energy sanctions could push price of oil to US$300 a barrel
- Head Of US Congress Propose Bill Banning Energy Imports From Russia
- Russia Could Ban Pumping Of Gas Through Nordstream1
- Russia Publishes List Of ‘Unfriendly Countries’ – Has Foreign Remittance Implications
- United Russia Urges Nationalisation Of Factories Left By Exiting Foreign Companies
Monday, March 7
- Breaking: Three of the big four global audit firms, KPMG, EY, and PwC announce plans to leave Russia.
- US, Allies, In Discussions To Ban Russian Oil Imports
- How Damaging Are Russian Sanctions On China-EU Rail Trade And The Belt & Road Initiative?
- Netflix Suspends Russia Service
- TikTok Suspends Live Streaming In Russia
- Mastercard and Visa Block in Russia Does Not Stop Domestic Purchases in Russia
- Russian Companies Are Now Allowed To Pay Foreign Creditors In Rubles
- Russian Banks Switch To China’s Union Pay
- Moody’s Downgrades Russian Stocks To ‘Pre-DeFault’
- CBR To Restrict Disclosure Of Banks Financial Results
- Pakistan Strikes Key Deal To Buy Russian Gas & Wheat
- US TV Channels Stop Broadcasting In Russia
- Russia Intends To Strengthen CSTO & SCO
Sunday, March 6
- IBM To Stop Selling Technology To Russia
- Azerbaijan Suspends Flights To Russia
- Aeroflot Suspending All International Flights From Tuesday, March 8
- Visa and Mastercard Suspend Operations In Russia
- India Wants To Bypass Dollar To Keep Russian Trade
- Hollywood Blacklists Russian Films
Saturday, March 5
- Singapore places financial and export sanctions on Russian businesses
- Paypal Suspends Russian Services
- Central Asia To Benefit As Sanctions Force Russian Manufacturers To Relocate
- Samsung Suspends Deliveries To Russia
- SWIFT’s Disconnection Of Russia’s Key Banks: Portfolios & Implications
- Microsoft Suspends Business In Russia
Friday, March 4
- Russia Reacts To US Senators Putin Assasination Plea
- Russia Halts Payments On Bonds, Shares To Foreigners
- AIIB and NDB Freeze All Infrastructure Financing Activities Related To Russia, Belarus
- Russia State Duma Criminalizes Calling For Sanctions
- Breaking: The China backed Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) has suspended all investments into Russia and Ukraine. Russia is the third largest shareholder in the multilateral bank.
- Billionaire Predicts Brutal Financial Crisis For Russia, Recovery To ‘Take Several Years’
- Russia To Limit Foreign Investment Being Pulled From The Country
- US Considers Sanctions Against India
- Foreign Brands & Businesses That Have Suspended Operations In Russia
- Google Suspends Online Advertising Sales In Russia
- Russia’s Main Pipeline Stops European Supplies
- Fitch, Moody’s Slash Russia’s Sovereign Debt To Junk
- Sberbank Europe To Declare Bankruptcy
- Russia May Nationalize Boeing And Airbus Jets
- IKEA, BooHoo, H&M and Burberry Exit Russia
- Russian Forces Seize Key Strategic Port, Cuts Ukraine Off From Sea Access
Thursday, March 3
- London Stock Exchange Suspends Trading In 27 Companies With Strong Links To Russia
- Disabled Russian Athletes Banned From Beijing 2022 Winter Paralympics
- Russia’s Roscosmos Stops Deliveries Of Rocket Engines To United States
- Ukrainian President Says 16,000 Foreign Mercenaries Are Going To Fight Against Russia
- Ukraine Bans Use Of Russian And & Belarus Issued Credit & Debit Cards
- Georgia To Fast-Track Application For EU Membership
- Lavrov: West Rejected Dialogue On Establishing A New Security Dialogue
- Formula 1 Cancels 2022 Sochi Grand Prix
- Russia Faces Loss Of Digital Sovereignty
- Journalistic Unions: EU Censorship Of RT & Sputnik Is Counterproductive
- Russia Is Now Exclusively A Ruble Nation
- Western Accountants And Consultants Under Pressure To Abandon Russia
- Grushko: NATO Expansion East Is Like Searching For An Enemy
- European Commission: Russia Sanctions Could Backfire On EU
- EU Cuts Seven Russian Banks From SWIFT
- France Detains Foreign Mercenaries On Bus To Ukraine
Wednesday, March 2, 2022
- Chinese Nationals In Kiev Targeted By Ukrainian Anger
- Russia Steel Giant Severstal To Stop Deliveries To Europe
- Breaking: China won’t join the United States and European governments in imposing financial sanctions on Russia, the country’s bank regulator has announced.
- Breaking: EU imposes additional sanctions on Belarus, will impact Government and Military officials, stop Belarus exports to EU and hits Belarus economic sectors in timber, steel, and potassium industries.
- Ukrainian ‘Azov Battalion’ Fascist Group Won’t Let Ukrainian Citizens Leave Mariupol
- DHL Suspends Inbound Services To Russia
- Ukraine Would Demand Legally Binding Guarantees If NATO Shuts Door On Membership
- Breaking: Russia-Britain Business Council suspends business advisory services for UK companies in Russia
- More Ukraine-Russia Talks Today
- Sberbank Leaving European Markets
- Maersk Stops Shipping To Russia
- Breaking: Nationalist EU hatred emerging as eyewitness reports of Russian nationals and suspected Russian nationals in EU and UK being physically abused, beaten, harassed in public streets, and vilified online begin to appear.
- US Closes Its Airspace To Russian Flights
- Moscow Seeking Legally Binding Security Guarantees From NATO
- Nigeria Condemns EU Treatment Of Africans Trying To Flee Ukraine
- Denounce Putin Or Lose Your European Job
- Russian Opera Star Fired From Bavarian State Opera
- American Express No Longer Working With Russia’s Sanctioned Banks
- Could Putin Be Exploring Cryptocurrencies To Bypass Western Sanctions?
Tuesday, March 1
- Breaking: Ukraine withdraws Ambassadors from Georgia and Kyrgyzstan after Tblisi and Bishkek bar charter flights of mercenaries to Kiev.
- Nordstream 2 May File For Bankruptcy
- Lavrov: Presence Of Nuclear Weapons In Europe Is Unacceptable
- Fears For ‘Bloody Fight’ For Kiev As Huge Russian Army Gathers On Outskirts
- ‘No Plans To Occupy Ukraine’ Russia Tells UN
- Russians Face Economic Point Of No Return
- Russians Race For Cash As Ruble Plummets
- Russia Thrown Out Of FIFA World Cup And All International Football Banned
- Putin Bans Transferring Money Abroad
- Ukraine Issues Visa-Free Status For Foreign Mercenaries
- Georgian PM Says Opposition Wants To Drag Country Into War With Russia
- Putin To Macron: Ukraine Solution Only Possible If Russian Security Issues Are Considered
- Russia, Ukraine Agree To Return For Further Talks, Macron Speaks With Putin
- US Closes Embassy In Belarus
- Huge Belarussian Convoy Of Tanks & Troop Carriers Seen Near Ukrainian Border
- Russia Bans Airlines From 36 Countries
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Monday, February 28
- Russian Exporters Ordered To Convert Foreign Currency Into Rubles
- Ukraine Names Key Points For Russia Talks
- Bank Of Russia Increases Key Interest Rates To 20%
- Baker & McKenzie To Axe Major Russian Clients
- Borrell: Russia Placed Reserves Where Sanctions Cannot Reach Them
- Talks Between Russia And Ukraine To Go Ahead Monday Morning
- Ruble Crashes 25%
- EU Commissioner: ‘Ukraine Belongs To Us And We Want Them In’
- EU To Provide Weapons To Ukraine
- Aeroflot Cancels Flights To All European Destinations
- Turkey Closes Black Sea Straits
- EU Bans RT And Sputnik News Outlets
Sunday, February 27
- Russia Puts Nuclear Defense Systems On High Alert
- Ukraine Will Meet Russia For Negotiations On Belarus Border
- US, UK, EU & Canada To Block Russian Access To SWIFT
- West Kicks Russian Banks Off SWIFT, Paralyzes Central Bank Assets
- EU Countries To Close Airspace For Russian Planes
- Vladimir Putin Sits Atop A Crumbling Pyramid Of Power
- Ukraine Reports Zelensky Proposes Baku For Negotiations
- Ukraine Suggests Gomel, Belarus As Venue For Talks With Russia
- Biden Says Alternative To Sanctions Would Be World War 3
- Ukraine Invites Foreign Troops To Fight Under ‘International Legion’
- Germany Closes Airspace To Russia
- Is Russia’s Invasion Going As Expected
Saturday, February 26
- Council Of Europe Suspends Russia’s Representation
- Medvedev: Russia Could Cut Diplomatic Ties With Entire West
- NATO Sending More Weapons To Ukraine
- Zelensky Accepts Putin’s Proposal, Ready For Talks
- Kiev Under Siege As Ukrainians Try To Hold Off Russian Forces
- China Calls For Sustainable European Security Mechanism
- Western Powers Have Realized Russia Is Immune To Sanctions
- Zakharova: Russia-West Relations ‘Nearing Point Of No Return’
- Turkey Declines Ukraine Request To Stop Russian Warships
Friday, February 25
- Ukraine President Offers Talks With Putin If Opportunity Exists
- Russia Will Retaliate Over Western Sanctions
- Putin Bans All UK Flights From Flying Over, Or Too Russia
- Anonymous Hackers Take Down RT Media Outlet
- Lavrov: West Turned A Blind Eye To Ukrainian Regime War Crimes In Donbas
- Kiev To Fall By The Weekend As Troops Encircle Capital
- Ukraine Fights For Survival As Putin Presses Forward
- Biden Imposes New Sanctions: ‘America Stands Up To Bullies’
- Kiev Furious As EU Wavers On Banning Russia From SWIFT
- Lavrov: Russia Always Welcome For Dialogue That Will Return All To UN Charter
- Ukraine Forces Vastly Outnumbered By Russia
- Russia’s Ukraine Operation Does Not Start A War, It Prevents One – Putin
- Russia Says Destroyed Over 70 Ukraine Military Targets
- ‘Amongst The Darkest Hours For Europe’ – Borrell
- Russia’s Central Bank Buys Up Rubles To Prevent Financial Meltdown
- Nordstream 2 To Enforce Compensation Claims
- Shelling Largely Over, Ukrainian Troops Changing Sides
Thursday, February 24
- Ukraine Breaks Diplomatic Relations With Russia
- Ukrainian Troops Leaving Their Positions, Dropping Weapons
- Ukraine Disconnected From Russia, Belarussian Energy Systems
- News Flash: Putin has asked Ukrainian military to stand down and not get involved, saying Russia has no desire to inflict casualties, the Ukrainian military is ultimately there to protect the Ukrainian people rather than politics, and that the conflict is solely the responsibility of the Ukrainian Government.
- Russia Invades Ukraine As Putin Declares War To ‘Demilitarize’ Its Neighbour
- Russian Troops Arrive In Odessa, Maripol & Kharkiv
- Understanding Putin’s Narrative About Ukraine Is The Master Key To This Crisis
- Kiev Declares National State Of Emergency
- US Imposes Sanctions On Nordstream2 Operator
- US Warns Of Full-Scale Ukraine Invasion With 48 Hours
- Fighting Intensifies In Eastern Ukraine
- NATO Accuses Russia Of Trying To Rewrite Entire Global Security Infrastructure
- UN Secretary-General Made Comments Incompatible With His Status: Lavrov
- Polish President: Russian Nationals May Be Barred From Entering Poland
Wednesday, February 23
- EU Poised To Announce Wide-Ranging Sanctions On Russia
- Harsh Conditions Means That Russian Troops On Ukrainian Border Will Need To Be Moved Soon
- Putin Says Russia’s Interests Are Non-Negotiable
- Blinken Cancels Planned Meeting With Lavrov
- Ukraine President Calls Up Reservists
- Why I Blame The Arrogant, Foolish West For The Ukraine Crisis
- Ensuring Russia’s Security Is Our Primary Aim: Putin
- Blinken Says Meeting Lavrov ‘Nonsensical’
- Biden Announces Sanctions That Will Cut Russia Off From Western Financing
- Sanctions Against Russia Come At A Cost To The West
- An Introduction To The Donetsk & Lugansk Republics
- Bolton Predicts Putin Will Walk All Over Biden And Is Waiting For Trumps Return
- Russia’s Poodle Parliament Cronies Authorise Use Of Force Outside Russia
- Kremlin Says How Donbas Borders Will Be Redefined
Tuesday, February 22
- Germany Pauses NordStream2 Certification
- Ukraine Says Will Consider Cutting Ties With Russia
- Russia Strongly Condemned At United Nations After Putin Orders Troops Into Eastern Ukraine
- Dismay And Condemnation As West Begins To Impose Sanctions On Russia
- Putin Orders Russian Military To Act As Peacekeepers In Ukraine Regions
- Biden Says Russia’s Recognition Of Donetsk & Lugansk Threatens US National Security
- Putin Signs Decree Recognizing Donetsk And Lugansk as Republics
- Putin Orders Troops Into Eastern Ukraine To Keep Peace
- Russia Orders Troops Into Ukrainian Territories
- US To Impose Sanctions On Donbas
- Macron Demands Targeted Sanctions On Moscow
Monday, February 21
- Kiev Calls For Urgent Sanctions On Russia
- Kremlin Says Talk Of Biden-Putin Summit Is Premature
- US, NATO Must Substantively Respond To Russia’s Security Demands: Putin
- Biden – Putin Summit Agreed In Principle
- US Embassy Warns About Terror Attacks In Russia
- US Officials Say Russian Commanders Given Final Orders To Attack
- Putin And Macron Agree To Try And Secure Ceasefire
- Russia Extends Military Drills In Belarus
Sunday, February 20
- Russia Plans Biggest War Since 1945: Johnson
- West Plans To Arm Resistance In Russia Invades Ukraine
- Kiev Shells Donetsk
- EU Condemns Donbass Shelling
- East Ukraine Separatist Regions To Evacuate Citizens To Russia
Saturday, February 19th
- Biden ‘Convinced’ Putin Plans Invasion
- US Unlikely To Kick Russia Off SWIFT – White House
- Two Powerful Gas Pipeline Explosions In Lugansk
- Huge Explosions Rock East Ukraine
Friday, February 18
- Biden To Host Call With NATO Allies As Invasion Fears Grow
- Blinken And Lavrov To Meet ‘Within Days’ As Tensions Become Perilous
- Russia Wil Be ‘Forced To Respond’ If US Does Not Engage On Security Demands
- US Unresponsive In Proposal To Remove Nuclear Weapons
- Donetsk Opens Fire In Response To Ukrainian Shelling
- Biden Declares War? Ukrainian Forces Target Civilians
- Joe Biden Accuses Russia Of Running ‘False Flag Operation’ To Justify Attacks
- Fresh Shelling Breaks Out in Eastern Ukraine as U.S. Accuses Russia of Invasion ‘Pretext’
- Russia Demands US Pulls All Troops From ‘Central and Eastern Europe’ and Expels US Deputy Ambassador
Thursday, February 17
- US Official Claim Russia Has Sent 7,000 More Troops To Ukraine Border
- US Troop Reinforcements Arrive On Polish Border
- US Deploys F-35 Fighter Jets To Germany
- Russia Ridicules Western Media Over ‘Day Of No Invasion’
- Anti-Russian Hysteria Affecting US Ability To Be Objective Over Ukraine
Wednesday, February 16
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- Biden: Ukraine Invasion Still Possible Despite Russian Claims
- Scholz: Russia Doesn’t Want War
- NATO Says It Has Yet To See Any Significant Russian Withdrawal
- Tanks Leave Russia’s Southern Border As Troops Are Redeployed
- Russian State Duma Sends Appeal To Declare Donbass Republics As Sovereign States
- Lavrov: Ukraine Dropping NATO Bid Would Relieve Europe
- Where Does Belarus Stand In The Russia-West Standoff?
Tuesday, February 15
- Russia Sending Thousands More Troops To Ukrainian Border
- The West’s Focus On Imminent Invasion May Backfire
- US Stoking Russia-Ukraine Tensions Draws Global Concerns
- How European Leaders Are Dealing With The Ukraine Crisis: From Dealmaking France To Hawkish Poland
- Ukrainian Envoy Walks Back NATO Membership Comments
- Russian Lawmakers Urge Putin To Recognize Breakaway Ukrainian Regions
- Western States Want To Spark Conflict In Ukraine But Not Fight Themselves – Lukashenko
Monday, February 14
- German Leader To Fly To Moscow Amidst Fears Time Is Running Out
- Kiev Seeks Urgent Meeting With Russia & Vienna Document Signatories
- The Edge Of War: What Exactly Does Putin Want?
- Explainer: What Are The Minsk Agreements?
- !2 Reasons A Russian Attack On Ukraine Looks Imminent
- Details Of Biden-Putin Call
- Biden Warns Putin Ukraine Attack Would Bring ‘Severe Costs’
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Monday May 16
- Finland Confirms Intent To Join NATO
- Russia Is On Track For A Record Trade Surplus
- Novel Sanctions Against Business-Related Services Connected to Russia and Additional Export Restrictions
- Ban On Russian Gas Risks Reviving Populism in Europe
- UniCredit, Citi Consider Swapping Assets With Russian Institutions
Sunday May 15
- China, Russia Tipped To Power Up Energy Ties As Europe Weans Itself Off Putin’s Oil and Gas
- Western Trade and Transport Sanctions on Russia
- Global Diamond Trade Fractures Under The Weight of Russia Sanctions
- How Russian Is It?: A Very Crude Question
Saturday May 14
- Supply Chain Pressure To Persist, Leading To Permanent Changes In Trade
- Europe Battles To Secure Steel Following Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine
- Russia’s Inter RAO to Halt Power Exports to Finland Due Lack of Payment
Friday May 13
- Indian Businesses Take UAE Route for Russian Payments
- Russian Shipping Traffic Remains Strong as Sanctions Take Time to Bite
- Russia Overshadows EU-US Tech and Trade Talks
- Panic Grips Billion-Dollar Trade Over Russian Diamond Ban
- India Bans Wheat Exports To Tame Prices As Heatwave Curtails Output
- Kazakhstan Bans Sugar Exports For Six Months
- Japan To Ban Export Of High-Tech Equipment To Moscow
- Wildberries Ecommerce Opens Three New Logistics Centers in Russia
Thursday May 12
- Russian Oil Tankers Turn To Stealth Shipments Under Sanctions
- Russian Importers Reach Out to India’s Smaller Firms to Sidestep Sanctions
- Hyatt Removes Russia Hotels Effective Immediately
- Russia Oil Revenue Up 50% This Year Despite Boycott, IEA Says
- Russia’s Grain Harvest Could Total 130 Million Tonnes in 2022, Including Record Wheat Harvest
Wednesday May 11
- Turkey Looks To Kazakhstan To Form New Trade Route To Bypass Russia
- Trade In Times Of War: Indian Imports From Russia Rise 3x Since Ukraine
- Implications Of Russia’s Invasion Of Ukraine For Its Value Chains
- UK Announces Expansion of Trade Sanctions Against Russia and Belarus
- Russia Imposes Blocking Sanctions on Yamal-Europe Gas Pipeline
- Czechia Takes Russia’s Place In UN Human Rights Council
Tuesday May 10
- Russia And Belarus Sanctions And Export Controls: Update
- Renault’s Russia Exit Plans Mix Logic and Delusion
Monday May 9
- China-Russia Trade Up 25.9% in January-April
- Ukraine War Cuts Foreign Investors Off From Their Russian Assets
Sunday May 8
Saturday May 7
- Potential Economic Effects of Sanctions on Russia: An Allied Trade Embargo
- Russia Hails Growth In Trade With Central Asia Despite Turbulent Geopolitical Situation
Friday, May 6
- European-Asian Geopolitics – The Implications Of Shifting Supply Chains In Wake Of The Russia-Ukraine Conflict
- Russia Seeking to be Good Neighbors with Central Asia – Lavrov
- Russian Oil Ban – Details In Full
- Bulgaria To Seek Exemption from EU Russian Oil Embargo
- Italy Calls for Clarity on Putin’s Ruble Order as Gas Bills Loom
- Russian Economy Could Weather Impact of EU Oil Ban
- Supply Chain Bottleneck Warning Issued
- ‘We Are Already At Zero’: Italian Resort Counts Cost as Russian Visits Dry Up
Thursday, May 5
- Russia Averts Sovereign Default
- Ruble Hits Two Year High Against Dollar & Euro
- EU Imposes New Sanctions Russia Oil & Orthodox Church Patriarch
- UK Bans Provision Of Services To Russian Businesses
- German Exports To Russia Sink
- Russian Conflict Leads EU To Push For Faster Trade Deals
- Russia Blacklists Japanese Prime Minister
- Ukraine Begins Process To Cancel Russian Double Tax Agreement
- Moscow Court Freezes Google’s Russian Assets
Wednesday, May 4
- Anti-Russia sanctions not to be removed without Moscow-Kiev agreements — Scholz
- EU threatens Russia with fresh SWIFT restrictions
- Oil trade patterns will be radically reshaped by the Russia-Ukraine conflict
- EU may offer Hungary, Slovakia exemptions from Russian embargo
- We’ve to look after our interests: Hardeep Puri on India’s oil trade with Russia
- Russia-Ukraine Conflict: How Nigeria Can Facilitate International Trade
- Russia-China dirty tanker trade soars 94% after Ukraine invasion
Tuesday, May 3
- Why Sanctions Against Russia May Not Work
- Hungary Opposes Ban on EU’s Import of Russian Energy Resources
- Ten EU Countries Quietly Buying Russian Gas With Rubles
- EU to Terminate Russian Coal Imports in Summer
- Huge Rise in Russian Gas Supplies to China
- Japan Pushes Ahead With Plan to Add Russian Gas Imports
- Renault To Sell Russian Assets For One Ruble
- Turkey’s Gemlik Port Transshipments Shoot Up March & April
Monday, May 2
- China’s UnionPay Shuns Russian Banks as Sanctions Force Caution
- Bank of Russia Lowers Key Rate by 3 Percentage Points to 14% per annum
- Sberbank to Make Coupon Payments on Dollar-Denominated Eurobonds In Rubles
- Gazprom Terminates Depositary Receipts Listing on London, Singapore Exchanges
- Serbia Promises Decision on Russia Sanctions
- Citing War, Georgia’s Borjomi Suspends Production
- Sanction the Right People in Russia
Friday, April 29
- European Gas Firms Seek Ways To Pay After Putin’s Rubles Demand
- India’s FIEO Calls For A Way For Rupee-Ruble Trade with Russia
- Bank of Russia Seeks to Allow Stock Exchanges to Trade Digital Assets
- Russian Industry & Trade Ministry Intends to Coordinate with Foreign Automakers on Operations in Russia by Summer
- Russian GDP Growth Slowed to 1.6% in March, Estimated at 3.7% in Q1 – Economics Ministry
- Estonia Approves Ban on Procurements from Russian Companies & Individuals
- Inchcape Leaving Russia, Selling Business to Local Management for €76 million
Thursday, April 28
- Gazprom Suspends Gas Supplies to Bulgaria, Poland Due to Failure to Pay in Rubles
- European Gas Prices Soar After Supply Disruption
- Estonia Not Planning To Pay for Russian Gas in Rubles
- Bulgaria to Receive Azerbaijani Gas through Greek Gas Interconnector in Late Q3
- Rubles-for-Gas Scheme Does Not Undermine Sanctions – Uniper
- Schneider Electric to Sell Russian Assets to Local Management
- Russia Set to Withdraw from UN World Tourism Organisation
- China Issues ‘Color Revolution’ Warning
- Where is Transnistria and Why is it Being Drawn into Ukraine Conflict?
Wednesday, April 27
- Breaking: Russia Cuts Gas Supplies To Bulgaria & Romania, EU Gas Prices Immediately Rise 24%
- Russian Commodities Exports Down in March
- U.K. Bans More Exports to Russia, Cuts Ukraine Tariffs
- Russian Retailer Magnit Opening First Store in Uzbekistan, Planning To Expand
- Russia Wants To Increase Settlements in National Currencies with BRICS, EAEU, SCO Countries
- Belarus Finalizing Connection to Chinese Version of SWIFT
- Western Supply Lines To Ukraine Destroyed
- Rostacom Estimates Northern Sea Passage Traffic To Remain Similar To 2021 Levels
- Russian GDP Could Shrink 10-12% in 2022, 2023 Figure Uncertain
Tuesday, April 26
- NATO Looking At Marine Navy Escorts In Black Sea
- Turkey At Odds With NATO Over Black Sea Plans
- Russian Ruble Emerges Stronger Three Months Into Ukraine Conflict
- Bank of Russia Changes Daily Time In Announcing Official Exchange Rates
- Russia Urges Allies To Dump Dollar & Euro In Trade
- Rotterdam Port Feels Pain Of Russian Sanctions
- Air Lease to Write Off Value of 27 Jets Stranded in Russia
- Hotel Groups Under Pressure To Exit Russian Assets
Monday, April 25
- How Russia Avoided Economic Run Despite Sanctions
- Russian Oil Exports Resilient to Sanctions & Boycotts as Trade Routes Adjust
- EU Ship Fuel Runs Low As Russian Trade Flows Shift
- The Coming Russian Struggle for New Markets for its Oil
- The Economic Cost OF Trade Restrictions On Russia
- US Signals Iran-Type Ban On Russia Trade
- Indian Exporters Get Pending Payments for Shipments Made to Russia
- Armenia & Russia To De-Dollarize Bilateral Trade
- Russia’s Amsterdam Trade Bank Declared Bankrupt
- Russia Blocks Economic Data, Hiding Effect Of Western Sanctions
Sunday, April 24
- UN Secretary-General To Meet Putin, Lavrov In Moscow On Tuesday
- VTB: Russian Default Out Of The Question – Financial Situation Is Stable
- UK To Open First New Coal Mine In Thirty Years
- Germany Can’t ‘Isolate Russia’ – Schroeder
- Global Growth Forecast Slashed
Saturday, April 23
- Breaking: UK PM Johnson Says ‘Russian Victory A Realistic Possibility’
- Russia To Secure Nuclear-Free, Neutral Status of Ukraine — Russian Ambassador to US
- EU Fails To Agree Russian Energy Ban
- Abrupt Embargo on Russian Gas Harmful for German, European Economy — Scholz
- Central Bank Survey Says Russia’sEconomic Outlook Has Worsened
- Russian Inflation To Hit 22% in 2022, GDP Fall 9.2%, Zero 2023 Growth – Analysts
- Russia Unveils Plans for Digital Ruble, Domestic PaymentSystem
- Sovcombank To Offer Eurobond Holders Exchange For New Russian Bonds
- Russia Classifies Its Customs Data
- Mark Zuckerberg Banned From Russia
- Russia’s RZD Logistics Eyes Incresed Caspian & INSTC Shipments
- VEB Consortium Plans To Establish Chinese JV For Wind Farm Production In Russia
Friday, April 22
- ‘Worst Crisis Since The Second World War’ – Germany & Gas Imports
- Russian Government Focused On Operations Of Foreign Companies In Russia
- Novatek Working On Launching, Financing Arctic LNG 2 Pipeline
- Central Bank: Russia Can Use Available Gold, Forex Reserves To Pay For Imports
- VTB Pays Subordinated Dollar Eurobonds in Rubles
- Kazakhstan’s CenterCredit Buying Russia’s Alfa-Bank Subsidiary
- Russian Central Bank’s Key Lending Rate To Return To 7%-7.5% Once Inflation Returns To 4%
Thursday, April 21
- OFSI Updates Its Russia Sanctions Guidelines
- Russia Reaps Rewards of Domestic Payment System After Visa and Mastercard Withdraw
- Japan Revokes Russia’s ‘Most Favoured Nation’ Status
- UK Tax Service Revokes MOEX Status
- EU To Pay For Most Of Ukraine’s Reconstruction
- Construction of Cargo Fleet for Northern Sea Passage Sees Cooperation With Chinese, South Korean Shipyards
- SAP To End Service In Russia
- Almost 200,000 Workers In Russia Still On Western Payrolls
Wednesday, April 20
- Eurasian Development Bank Buys Back US$200 Million 2022 Bonds
- Russia’s Conflict With Ukraine Means Market Forces Can No Longer Dominate Trade
- Russia, Iran, Discuss Joint National Food Security Programmes
- India Set To Boost Russian Energy Imports
- Russia Seeks Medical Equipment From India as War Disrupts Trade
- India Restarts Tea, Rice, Other Exports To Russia
- Murmansk & Indiga Ports Set To Receive Increased Energy Export Infrastructure
- Minsk, Moscow Discussing Increased Trade & Economic Cooperation
Tuesday, April 19
- Situation in Russian Economy, Ruble Exchange Rate Stabilizing
- Putin: Western ‘Economic Blitzkrieg’ Has Failed
- China’s Russia Trade Up 28.7% In Q1 2022
- Bank of Russia Starts Legal Battle For Its Frozen Reserves
- Russian Companies Can Maintain Listings On Foreign Exchanges Until May 5
- Russian Government Backs Subsidizing Of Interest Rates For Arctic, Far East Russia Projects
- Russian State Budget Must Effectively Saturate Economy With Liquidity Amid Credit Squeeze
Monday, April 18
- Congress Votes to Impose Trade Punishments on Russia and Belarus, Will Consider Tax and Procurement Measures
- Global – Russia Sanctions Tracker
- China-Russia 2022 Trade Surges 30%
- Fitch Ratings Opinions On 2022 CIS States Growth Rates
- Russia Boosts Fertilizer Exports By 700,000 Tonnes
- First China-Russia Railway Bridge Will Boosting Trade, Slash Delivery Times
- No Rupee-Ruble Trade With Russia: India Commerce Secretary
- Russia-Ukraine Conflict Puts Fragile Global Trade Recovery At Risk
Sunday, April 17
- Russia’s European Goodbye
- Moscow Bans UK Prime Minister, Foreign, And Other Senior Ministers From Visiting Russia
- US Urged To Issue Visa Ban For UK Lawyers Representing Russian Oligarchs
- Ukrainian Oligarch Vows To Rebuild Mariupol
- Russia’s Ruble Standoff With EU Risks De Facto Gas Embargo
- Russia Lifting Restrictions On Agriculture Imports From Turkey
- Russia Working To Legalize Crypto
- Uzbekistan Concerned About Sanctions Banking Risks
- West Must Prepare For The ‘Coming Collapse Of Russia’
Saturday, April 16
- Russia Near To Defaulting On Debts: Moodys
- Russia’s China Trade Up 12% In March Over 2021 Figures
- Russia-Germany Trade Rupture Could Cause Global Financial Shock
- Russia Positions Itself For Move To A Gold Standard
- Wall Street Details Russia Losses And Warns Of Volatility
- Several Russian Gas Purchasers Agree To Pay In Rubles
- Russian Trucks In Long Queues To Leave Poland As EU Sanctions Deadline Nears
Friday, April 15
- Beijing To Act Over Sanctions Pressures On Its Companies
- Russia’s EU Borders & Trade Compared With Russia’s Asian Borders & Trade
- Russia-China Trade Surges In 2022
- Russian Central Bank Believes Russia Banks Could Lose Half Their Capital But Still Survive
- IMF: Ukraine Is Massive Set Back For Global Recovery
- Russian Oil Is Rebounding, But Exports Must Travel Much Further
- After Buying Cheap Russian Oil, India Is Now Looking At Russian Coal
- The Simple Economics Of Tariffs On Russian Energy Exports
Thursday, April 14
- Initial Restructuring Of Russian Economy To Take Two Years If Sanctions Remain In Place
- Energy, Military & Technical Cooperation Priorities For Russia & India
- Russia Expects Pakistan Stream Gas Pipeline To Continue
- Russian Airlines To Receive New Russian-Built PD-14 Aero Engines From 2024
- Foreign Suppliers Begin Returning Advance Payments To Russia For Agricultural Equipment
- Russian Foreign Debt Falls To 13 Year Low
- European Space Agency Discontinues Cooperation With Russia
Wednesday, April 13
- Russia Relies On ‘Payment Theatre’ As Bondholders Prepare For Default
- Borrowers Advised To Remit Separate Payments to Russian, Foreign Eurobond Holders, and Redeem in Rubles
- Russia’s Capital Outflows Reached US$50 Billion In February-March
- Putin Assures Russia It Will Not Shrink Into Isolation
- Putin: Russia, Belarus Must Enhance Integration Amid Western Sanctions
- Hollywood Stops Releasing Films In Russia
Tuesday, April 12
- Kremlin Will Take Legal Action If Russia Is Pushed To Default
- Lavrov: Ukraine Invasion Meant To End US Global Dominance
- Austrian Chancellor: Talks With Putin Were Open, Harsh, and Direct
- SocGen To Exit Russia With Sale Of Business To Oligarch
- Seizure Of Russian Diplomatic Property May Impact Both Parties
- Russia Preparing Countermeasures Over EU Blacklisting Airlines
- Russia Expecting To Reach Full Replacement Imports For Rail By 2024
Monday, April 11
- World Bank Sees Russian GDP Shrinking 11.2%, Investment Falling 17%
- US Votes To Suspend Russia Trade Status
- US Suspends ‘Most Favored Nation’ Status For Russia. This Is What it Means
- Russian Developers Launch Service To Transfer Channels From YouTube To VKontakte
- South Ossetia’s Presidential Election Ruled Valid
- Ukraine Needs An Ambitious Marshall Plan
- Oil And Gas Revenues Give Russia A US$3.4 Billion Cushion
- Despite Sanctions, The Russian Ruble Just Hit A Four Month High. Why?
- Standard & Poors Lowers Russia’s Foreign Currency Rating
- Iran-Russia Trade Expected To Top US$10 Billion In Two Years
Sunday, April 10
- Soaring Fertilizer Prices Sending Food Inflation Through The Roof
- Indian Central Bank Cuts Growth Forecast On Ukraine Fears
- Ukraine May Get EU Candidate Status In June
- Former SWIFT CEO Calls For Tightening Russian Sanctions
- Swedbank Ceasing Financial Transactions With Russia and Belarus
Saturday, April 9
- Medvedev: Unprecedented Sanctions On Russia Will Collapse International Institutions
- Russian, Belarus Nationals Open 12,000 Bank Accounts In Kazakhstan In Six Weeks
- Russia Bans UK Think Tank Chatham House
- Bank Of Russia Cuts Key Rate To 17%, More Reductions Could Follow
- Russian Government Increases Industrial Loan Finance By US$1.55 Billion
- Sanctions On Russian Ships In EU Ports Does Not Apply To Agricultural Or Energy Products
- Russia Redirects Planned EU Coal Exports To Other Markets
- Russia Redirecting Oil Supplies To Asia
- Russia’s Increasing Partnerships In Central Asia, Turkmenistan & Caspian
- Chinese Foreign Minister: Ukraine Crisis Caused By Imbalance In European Security System
- Belarus Suspends Payments To ‘Unfriendly’ Foreign Residents
- Japan Bans New Investment In Russia In Addition To Vodka & Timber Imports
Friday, April 8
- Russia’s March Industrial Production Rises 4.5% Despite Sanctions
- Financial Warfare: Will There Be A Backlash Against The Dollar?
- Banks Seek Clarity Against ‘Over-Compliance’ With Russia Sanctions
- These Companies Are Struggling To Leave Russia
- Ukraine Conflict Reverberates In Europe’s Factories
- Russia’s Ministry of Finance Suggests Russian Banks Forgo 2022 Dividends
- Cryptocurrencies Cannot be Used As Payment In Russia
- Shell Writes Down US$5 Billion After Offloading Russian Assets
Thursday, April 7
- Global Trade Falls 2.8% As Russia’s Ukraine Conflict Hits Container Traffic
- Where Global Trade In The Shipping Industry Is Most Affected
- DeGlobalisation: Will Backlash Against Russia Lead To A Trade Downturn?
- Putin Advisor Vows Legal Battles Over Attempts To Seize Russian Assets
- Serbia To Maintain Friendship With Russia While Seeking EU Membership
- Additional US Sanctions To Ban Investment Into Russia
- China Calls On US To Remove Russian Sanctions To Resolve Ukraine Conflict
Wednesday, April 6
- Impact Of The Ukrainian Conflict On China & Asia: Regional Overviews
- Inflationary Forces Spell Long Term Trouble For Central Banks
- EU Expels 200 Russian Diplomats In Past Two Days
- Russian Agriculture To Receive (Rubles Equivalent) Of US$1.8 Billion In Soft Loans
- Paks2 Hungary Nuclear Power Deal Continues With Russia’s Rostacom
- Russian Lada Factory Town ‘”Going Out Of Business”
- “Not My Yacht” How Western Offshore Structures Cloud Oligarch Ownership
Tuesday, April 5
- US Stops Russia From Making Bond Payments
- World Bank: Ukraine Conflict To Slow Economic Growth In Asia
- Asia-Pacific Trade Ties Mean China Can Avoid Criticizing Russia
- Global Grain Worth US$163 Billion Withdrawn From Markets By Russia
- World Looks To Replace Russia In Trade
- Putin Ends ‘Simplified Visas’ For Unfriendly Countries
- Belarus To Export Products Via Russia, China
Monday, April 4
- Mocow Outbound Investment Back Offices Move To Dubai
- Sanctions On Russian Individuals: Where Is The Due Process?
- Russia To Increase Use Of Alternative Trade In Currencies
- Russia, India To Trade In Non-Western Currencies
- US Warns Of Consequences Over India’s Rupee-Ruble Trade Deal With Russia
- “Language Of Coercion, Not Diplomacy” – India Hits Back At US Sanctions Threats
- Iran Wants To Trade With Russia In National Currencies
- Imran Khan Claims United States Threatened Him And Wants To See Him Ousted
- Global Lumber Trade Flows Halted By Russian Sanctions
- Russia Sanctions Create Trade Fallout For Trade Credit Insurers
Sunday, April 3
- Russia-Ukraine Conflict Will Have A Multifold Impact On The Global Business Environment
- China Says Trade With Russia Will Remain Unaffected
- Russia Pushes Alternatives To SWIFT To Keep Trade Going
- Ukraine — In A War Of Rival Imperialisms, Whoever Wins, We Lose
- Bitcoin May Serve Many Masters In The War In Ukraine
Saturday, April 2
- Russia, India Will Find Ways To Trade: Lavrov
- Gazprom Is Notifying Counterparts On New Payment Procedures
- Shell Unable To Buy Russian Gas
- China Warns Of Spectre Of Trouble For Asia Plotted By US
- EU Pushes China To Rethink Russia Ties
- China Calls On EU To Act Independently Of United States
- Russia-Ukraine Supply Chain Impact
- Aircraft Parts Can be Made In Kazan By 2023
- Kazakhstan To Abide By Wests Sanctions On Russia
Friday, April 1
- Corporate Rejection Of Russia Marks New Era Of Political Risk
- Central Bank of Russia Eases Restrictions On Money Transfers Abroad For ‘Friendly Countries’
- EU: Snow & Freezing Weather Set To Return To Europe
- Putin Signs Order For Gas Supplies To EU Be Paid In Rubles Or Be Cut Off On April 1
- Putin Says EU Gas Buyers Need Ruble Accounts From April 1
- Russia Sanctions Will Reduce US Dollar Dominance: IMF
- EU Leaders Pressed To Impose Sanctions On China
- West Unlikely To Cease Sanctioning Russia For Next Decade: Putin
- Share Of Domestic Russian-Built Commercial Aircraft Must Grow Substantially
- Russia To Ban Exports Of Rapeseed, Sunflower Seeds And Oils From April 1
- EBRD Expects Russian GDP To Shrink 10%
Thursday, March 31
- Why Is Vladimir Putin Demanding Russian Gas Is Paid For In Rubles?
- Russia Adds Chemicals, Components, Food To Duty-Free List
- Japan Has No Plans To Leave Sakhalin-2 Project
- Central Bank of Russia Lifts Ban On Short-Selling Russian Stocks
- Russia’s Pivot To Asia: New Issue Of Asia Investment Research
- Medvedev: West Has Failed To Globally Bind Russia, Was Prepared For Sanctions
- China, Russia Stand Firm On ‘New, Fair, Multipolar World Order’
- Oligarchs On UK Sanctions List Were Granted ‘Golden Visas’
- China Warns Against Western Powers Turning Asian Countries Into Political ‘Tools’
- Russian Foreign Minister Says China, Russia, Part Of ‘Emerging, Just World Order’
- Beijing Praises Russian-Chinese Cooperation ‘In Resisting Hegemony’
- South Ossetian President Say Republic Will Join Russia
- Putin, Scholz Talk, Discuss Rubles Payment For Russian Gas
- Russian Ministry Of Trade Proposes Allocating Rubles 55 Billion To Auto Industry
- Belarus Making International Payments In Chinese RMB Yuan
Wednesday, March 30
- Germany Close To Gas Rationing As It Activates Emergency Fuel Plans
- Russian Railways Send First Train To Finland As Services Resume
- Beijing Praises Russian-Chinese Cooperation In Resisting Hegemony
- China Warns Against Turning Asian Countries Into Western Tools
- Russian Foreign Minister Praises China As Part Of New Emerging World Order
- Russian State Duma Suggests Expanding List Of Russian Exported Goods To Be Paid For In Rubles
- Outcome Of Istanbul Talks
- Russia’s Pivot To Central Asia
- Russians Eye Departed Western Brands Trademarks
- Johnson & Johnson, Decathlon, Depart Russia
- Russia Unveils Domestic Instagram Competitor, ‘Rossgram’
- Economic Development Ministry Proposes De-Listing Russian Securities On International Exchanges
- VTB Removes Brand Name From Investment & Brokerage Assets Ahead Of Transfer To Third Parties
Tuesday, March 29
- Russia’s Eurochem To Buy Controlling Stake In Brazil’s Fertilizantes Heringer
- Japan Bans Sales Of Luxury Cars To Russia
- National Depository Received Funds To Pay Russia’s 2035 Bond
- World Bank: Ukraine Conflict Will Create Poverty In Developing Economies
- Russia Works On Visa Moves Against ‘Unfriendly Countries’
- List Of Public Companies Still Operating In Russia
- G7 Rejects Russian Plan To Sell Gas In Rubles
- Russia’s Pivot To Asia: India
- Will The Russia-Ukraine Conflict Affect Biopharmaceutical Licensing Agreements?
- Carlsberg To Sell Russia’s Biggest Brewer ‘Baltica’
- Dnipro Water Fills North Crimean Canal After 8 Years
Monday, March 28
- Putin, Erdogan Agree To Hold Tomorrow’s Russia-Ukraine Meeting In Istanbul
- Zelenskiy Says Ukraine Willing To Discuss Neutrality
- Finland Halts Freight Rail Traffic With Russia
- Heineken Leaves Russia, Hands Business To Local Partner
- Russia’s Western Partners ‘Will Adjust’ To Paying For Gas In Rubles
- Sinopec Cancels US$380 Million Investment Into Russia
- Jersey, Guernsey Suspend Russia Tax Cooperation
- Isle Of Man Halts Russian Tax Cooperation
- Monaco Clamps Down On Russian Owned Assets
- Renewed Spotlight On Caymans As Russia Tax Haven
- Russia Drops Gold Tax To Encourage Savers to Dump Dollars
- Putin’s ‘Rubles For Russian Gas’ Demand Is A Security Threat
Sunday, March 27
- Blinken Says US Is Not Seeking Russian Regime Change
- Russia’s Invasion Is Crushing China’s Belt And Road Ambitions (Oil Price)
- China’s ‘No Limits’ Relationship With Russia Is Under Strain (Commonspace)
- War In Ukraine Is Hamstringing China’s ‘Belt And Road’ (Responsible Statescraft)
- China-Russian Relations Carry Deep Memories Of Mutual Respect – And Scorn (The Observer)
Saturday, March 26
- Breaking: Polish General Wants Kaliningrad Returned
- Investors Bet Ukraine War Will Prompt Companies To Bring Production Onshore
- EU Readies Tough New Sanctions On EU, Ukraine
- Need For Russian Central Bank Cryptocurrency Regulations
- Can Russian Retailers Survive?
Friday, March 25
- Russian Shares Rise As Moscow Stock Exchange Reopens
- Private Investors Accounted For over 50% Of Equities Trading After MOEX Reopening
- Hedge Funds Search For Bargains In Russian Bonds
- BlackRock’s Fink Says Ukraine War Marks The End Of Globalization
- US Economic War Against Russia Will Collapse Bilateral Relations
- The Impact Of Foreign Investors Leaving Russia On The Russian Commercial Real Estate Market
- New UK Sanctions Target Sberbank CEO And More Russian Banks
Thursday, March 24
- The West Is Rash To Assume The World Is On Its Side Over Ukraine
- Breaking: Moscow Stock Exchange Reopens To Trading Of 30 Stocks, Early Gains Of 10%
- Russia To Lift Border Crossing Restrictions In Kazakhstan & Mongolia
- Russian Renewables Projects Likely To See One-Two Year Delays
- Russia Extends Closure Of Southern Airports Until April 1st.
- South Korea To Recommence Visa-Free Travel For Russians From April 1st
- Russia To Decide Buying out Foreign Aircraft Ownership Worth US$20 Billion
- Russian Sovereign Wealth Fund Declined By US$6.8 Billion In February
- Google Confirms Restricted Russia Access
- Renault Suspends Russia Production
- New Risk Assessment Protocols For Foreign Investors In Russia
- Russian Stock Market To Reopen Today (Thursday) After Unpredecented Pause
- Putin Orders Gas Supplies To ‘Unfriendly Countries’ To Be Paid For In Rubles Only
- Russia’s Aviation Regulator Clears Rossiya To Carry Out Boeing, Airbus Maintenance
- Russia Introduces Aluminum Nitrate Export Ban
- Nestle Stops Production And Sales Of Non-Essential Goods In Russia
- Some Anti-Russia Protests Are Empty Gestures
Wednesday, March 23
- More Than 1 Million China-EU Containers Now Stuck At Belarus, Russian Ports
- Russian Prosecutor General’s Office Leaving International Association of Prosecutors
- What All The Big Law Firms Are Saying About Future Russia Business
- Evraz Confirms Transfer Of Eurobonds Due Payments
- Breaking: Russia To Be Excluded From G20 Talks
- EU To Set Up Trust Fund To Reconstruct Ukraine
- Russian Economy Faces ‘Massive Structural Changes’: Central Bank
- Russian Industry and Trade Ministry, Steelmakers Agree To Move From LME, Calculate Domestic Prices in Rubles
- Russia, Iran To Begin Banking And Finance Cooperation
- Malaysia, Vietnam, Oppose Russian Sanctions
- East German Business Lobby Defends Continued Activities in Russia
- Maersk Closes Russian Operations
- 800 Passenger Jet Aircraft Re-Registered In Russia, 78 Impounded Overseas
- New Sapsan High Speed Train Contract Suspended
Tuesday, March 22
- Russia Terminates Peace Treaty Talks With Japan
- Renault Resumes Car Production In Russia
- $17 Billion Of Global Assets Linked To 35 Russians With Links To Vladimir Putin
Monday, March 21
- Breaking: Russia has reopened the Moscow Stock Exchange today (Monday), resuming trading exclusively in federal government bonds.
- US Threatens Chinese Banks With SWIFT Disconnection
- Moody’s Analytics Sees Only Small APAC Impact On Supply Chain Losses
- India To Boost Wheat Exports In Light Of Ukraine Shortages
- Polish Authorities Seek To Confiscate Russian Property & Assets
- France Freezes Russian Central Bank’s Assets Worth Euro 22 Billion
- Russia Turns To Gold, Platinum, Diamonds and Rare Earths As Ruble Value Diminishes
- Russia Reschedules Belarus’ Debt For 5-6 Years
Sunday, March 20
- Medvedev: Russia’s Economy Won’t Collapse
- Ukraine War Sparking Turmoil In Global Markets
- Turkey: Russia’s Case For New Security Architecture Must Be Heard
- Prince Michael Quits As Head Of Russia-Britian Business Council
- Australia Bans Exports Of Aluminum Ores and Bauxite to Russia
- Halliburton Ceases Operations In Russia
Saturday, March 19
- Breaking: US senators have introduced a new bill that prevents China from using CIPS – its SWIFT alternative – to conduct financial transactions with Russia. Chinese banks that use CIPS for cross-border payments with Russia will be removed from the SWIFT network. The bill aims to deflect a challenge from China and Russia to dedollarize global finance.
- Russia Avoids Sovereign Debt Default
- Biden and Xi Fail To Bridge Differences Over Russia and Ukraine
- India Adopts a ‘Balanced Position’ Over Ukraine
- Transition To Rubles In EAEU In Customs Settlements By Belarus & Russia; Armenia, Kazakhstan And Kyrgyzstan To Keep Using Dollars
- Central Bank Of Russia Holds Key Rate At 20%
- If Regime Change Came To Moscow
- UK Revokes RT’s License To Broadcast
Friday, March 18
- What Happens When A Major Economy Can’t Pay Its Debt In Dollars? We’re About To Find Out
- China’s Turning Point: Will It Side With Russia And Divide The World?
- From Pasta Shortages To Iodine Pills, Panic Buying Hits Europe
- UK Suspends Tax Cooperation With Russia
- Russian Businesses Looking At Asia May Open Bank Accounts In Some ASEAN Countries
Thursday, March 17
- Russia Makes Bond Payment, Up To US To Execute It And Pay Out
- Putin Appreciates Foreign Companies Staying In Russia
- Latest On Russia-India Trade And Ruble-Rupee Payment Corridors
- India Aims To Become World’s Largest Wheat Exporter
- Russian Digital Development Ministry Proposes Elimination Of Import Duties on Electronic Products
- Samsung Pay Will Continue To Work In Russia
- Russia Expelled From Council Of Europe
- Sheremetyevo Shutting Third Runway, Pausing Investment Projects as Air Traffic Plummets
- Munich Re Not To Renew Expiring Russian Insurance Contracts
Wednesday, March 16
- How Will Sanctions Against Russia Impact Global Trade?
- US Senators Unveil Bipartisan Bill To Seize Russian Assets
- Goodbye Petrodollar? Saudi To Pay For Oil In Chinese RMB
- Fitch Downgrades 31 Russian Banks To ‘CC’
- Russia May Be Able To Pay Off Sovereign Debt Default Using Gold Reserves
- Russia Places Personal Sanctions On Biden, Blinken
- Instagram Exit Hits Russia’s SMEs
Tuesday, March 15
- Breaking: The UK will deny Russia and Belarus access to WTO most-favoured nation tariffs for hundreds of their exports, with an initial list of goods now facing additional 35% tariffs. Russian vodka is among products affected by the increases, while a UK export ban to Russia affects areas such as luxury vehicles, high-end fashion and works of art going from the UK to Russia.
- China Declares ‘It Must Not Be Affected’ By Russia Sanctions
- India Looks To Boost Non-US Dollar Trade With Russia
- Three Belarus Banks Cut Off From SWIFT Move To Russia’s SPFS
- Southern, Russia-Avoiding Belt & Road Multimodal Route Receives First China Blockchain Rail Cargo In Azerbaijan For Dispersal To Turkey, Bulgaria And Romania
- Unblocking Caucasus Transport Corridors Between Russia & Azerbaijan
- Sanctions Spell The End Of Cheap Russian Biomass Wood Pellets
- Blinken Ready To Meet With Lavrov Next Week
- Gazprom Continues Supplying Gas on Schedule for Transit via Ukraine
- Belarussian PM Says Western Companies Will Regret Exiting Russia
- Minsk & Moscow Agree To Stop Using US Dollar In Settlements
- Three Belarus Banks Cut Off From SWIFT, Switch To SPFS
- Russian Wheat Exports Plunge
- Kyrgyzstan Prepares For Russian Emigre Influx
Monday, March 14
- Putin Signs Law On Foreign Aircraft Registration Rights
- Eurobond Payment in Rubles Will Be Fulfillment of Obligations
- Breaking: South Korea’s Hyundai Merchant Marine has halted container shipping services to Russia’s Far Eastern Ports, Korean Air cancels Seoul-Vladivostok flights.
- Exemptions from FX restrictions for branches, dividends, and accounts of Russian residents
- British-American Tobacco Leaving Russia
- Azko-Nobel Expects Russia Business Operations To Collapse
- Wealthy Russians Turn To Dubai To Park Their Wealth
- US National Security Advisor: Beijing Will Face Sanctions If It Helps Moscow
- How Could US Sanctions On Russia Speed Up De-Dollarization And Help The Rise Of The Chinese RMB Yuan?
- Breaking: Senior Chinese Minister Yang Jiechi is meeting with the U.S. National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan in Rome today to discuss Ukraine.
- Russia’s Invasion To Have Enormous Impact On World Food Supplies
- Turkey Will Not Join Western Sanctions Against Russia
- Serbia Will Remain Neutral And Will Not Join NATO
- Half Of Russia’s Foreign Exchange Reserves Frozen: Finance Minister
- Bermuda Grounds 768 Russian Aircraft Registered There For Airworthiness
Sunday, March 13
- Breaking: Russian Central Bank to keep Stock Exchange closed until March 18. Date for trading in shares yet to be decided.
- Revised Russian 2022 GDP And Economic Forecast
- Russia’s War Heralds A Dark Isolated Economic Era
- US To Ban Imports Of Russian Vodka, Seafood & Diamonds From March 25
- Sanctions Could See Creditors Lose Billions In Russian Loans
Saturday, March 12
- Breaking: US To Establish Legal Authority To Ban Any Investment In Russia
- US, Allies, To Revoke Russia’s ‘Most Favored Nation’ Status
- Washington Bans Dollar Supply To Russia
- G7 Nations Drawing Up Plans To Impose Heavy Tariffs On Russia
- Marriott Suspends Planned Russia Expansion
- UEFA Suspends Russia From All International Football Activities
- Deutsche Bank Winding Down Business In Russia
- Avon Cosmetics To Relocate Production From Russia To Poland
- Russia Media Watchdog Restricts Instagram Access
- Russia To Launch Criminal Case Against Facebook
Friday, March 11
- Breaking: EU won’t impose sanctions on Russian gas or oil
- What Happens If Russia Can’t Pay Its Debts After Western Sanctions?
- Russia Asks For UN Security Council Meeting On Ukrainian Biolabs
- Facebook, Instagram, To Permit Calls For Violence Against Russian Citizens
- What Will The Blowback Be From Anti-Russian Sanctions?
- EU Leaders Reject Ukraine’s Fast-Track Membership Application
- Beijing Vows Harsh Measures If US Imposes Sanctions On It Concerning Ukraine
- Russian, Chinese Diplomats Hold Wide Ranging Talks
- Lavrov: ‘Never Again Will We Rely Upon Or Trust The West’
- Russian Oligarch Superyachts Being Hunted After Sanctions
- Abramovich Unable To Sell Chelsea FC After New Sanctions And Freezing Of Assets
- Western Union Suspends Russia Transaction Services
- Russian Sanctions Create Stock Market Profiteering Frenzy In Asian Markets
- Russia May ‘Nationalise’ Assets Of Ikea, Apple and McDonalds
Thursday, March 10
- UK freezes assets of seven Russian oligarchs including Roman Abramovich
- Russia To Cease Participation With Council Of Europe
- Toyota Halts Production & Parts Exports To Russia
- Concerns Over Grain Shortages As Wheat Prices Reaches 14-Year High
- Russia To Look For Aircraft Maintenance & Spare Parts Alternatives In India, China, Turkey
- Breaking: Sri Lanka’s Bank of Ceylon permits foreign passport holders with tourist visas to open USD / Euro accounts
- US Threatens China Over Russia Trade
- UK Orchestra Bans Tchaikovsky From Its Classical Repertoire
- Russia‘s UAC To Increase Production Of Commercial Aircraft
- Breaking: Carlsberg, KFC suspend operations in Russia
- Impact Of Russia-Ukraine Conflict On FIEs In China
- New EU Sanctions Target Belarus
- Amazon Quits Deliveries To Belarus & Russia
- Agri, Pharma Can Emerge As Key Trade Areas Of India’s Cooperation With Russia
- US Oil Import Ban Will Case Russia To Shift To Asian Markets
- Preparations Made With Belarus To Connect It With Chernobyl Operational Grid
Wednesday, March 9
- Russian Bond Default Imminent: Fitch
- Saudi & UAE Leaders Deny Calls From Biden Over Oil
- Breaking: Russia’s Central Bank allows Russians with foreign currency accounts to withdraw US$10,000 in cash until September 9th.
- Breaking: McDonalds, Pepsi, Coca-Cola, Starbucks all exit Russia market
- US Negotiating With WTO Over Russia’s Membership
- Breaking: US To Ban Imports Of Russian Oil
- Putin Signs Russian Anti-Crisis Domestic Economic Package
- Chinese Foreign Ministry Position On Russia And Ukraine
- China Wants US Answers Over Military Biolabs In Ukraine
- Russia Examines Legal Protocols For Seizure Of Foreign Assets
- Japan’s JCB Card Payment System Ceases Work In Russia
- Turkey May Use Ruble For Russian Trade
Tuesday, March 8
- CISCO Systems Departs Russia
- Coinbase Cryptocurrency Platform Blocks 25,000 Russian Accounts
- Japan Unveils New Russia Sanctions
- Breaking: Mutual US/Russian energy sanctions could push price of oil to US$300 a barrel
- Head Of US Congress Propose Bill Banning Energy Imports From Russia
- Russia Could Ban Pumping Of Gas Through Nordstream1
- Russia Publishes List Of ‘Unfriendly Countries’ – Has Foreign Remittance Implications
- United Russia Urges Nationalisation Of Factories Left By Exiting Foreign Companies
Monday, March 7
- Breaking: Three of the big four global audit firms, KPMG, EY, and PwC announce plans to leave Russia.
- US, Allies, In Discussions To Ban Russian Oil Imports
- How Damaging Are Russian Sanctions On China-EU Rail Trade And The Belt & Road Initiative?
- Netflix Suspends Russia Service
- TikTok Suspends Live Streaming In Russia
- Mastercard and Visa Block in Russia Does Not Stop Domestic Purchases in Russia
- Russian Companies Are Now Allowed To Pay Foreign Creditors In Rubles
- Russian Banks Switch To China’s Union Pay
- Moody’s Downgrades Russian Stocks To ‘Pre-DeFault’
- CBR To Restrict Disclosure Of Banks Financial Results
- Pakistan Strikes Key Deal To Buy Russian Gas & Wheat
- US TV Channels Stop Broadcasting In Russia
- Russia Intends To Strengthen CSTO & SCO
Sunday, March 6
- IBM To Stop Selling Technology To Russia
- Azerbaijan Suspends Flights To Russia
- Aeroflot Suspending All International Flights From Tuesday, March 8
- Visa and Mastercard Suspend Operations In Russia
- India Wants To Bypass Dollar To Keep Russian Trade
- Hollywood Blacklists Russian Films
Saturday, March 5
- Singapore places financial and export sanctions on Russian businesses
- Paypal Suspends Russian Services
- Central Asia To Benefit As Sanctions Force Russian Manufacturers To Relocate
- Samsung Suspends Deliveries To Russia
- SWIFT’s Disconnection Of Russia’s Key Banks: Portfolios & Implications
- Microsoft Suspends Business In Russia
Friday, March 4
- Russia Reacts To US Senators Putin Assasination Plea
- Russia Halts Payments On Bonds, Shares To Foreigners
- AIIB and NDB Freeze All Infrastructure Financing Activities Related To Russia, Belarus
- Russia State Duma Criminalizes Calling For Sanctions
- Breaking: The China backed Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) has suspended all investments into Russia and Ukraine. Russia is the third largest shareholder in the multilateral bank.
- Billionaire Predicts Brutal Financial Crisis For Russia, Recovery To ‘Take Several Years’
- Russia To Limit Foreign Investment Being Pulled From The Country
- US Considers Sanctions Against India
- Foreign Brands & Businesses That Have Suspended Operations In Russia
- Google Suspends Online Advertising Sales In Russia
- Russia’s Main Pipeline Stops European Supplies
- Fitch, Moody’s Slash Russia’s Sovereign Debt To Junk
- Sberbank Europe To Declare Bankruptcy
- Russia May Nationalize Boeing And Airbus Jets
- IKEA, BooHoo, H&M and Burberry Exit Russia
- Russian Forces Seize Key Strategic Port, Cuts Ukraine Off From Sea Access
Thursday, March 3
- London Stock Exchange Suspends Trading In 27 Companies With Strong Links To Russia
- Disabled Russian Athletes Banned From Beijing 2022 Winter Paralympics
- Russia’s Roscosmos Stops Deliveries Of Rocket Engines To United States
- Ukrainian President Says 16,000 Foreign Mercenaries Are Going To Fight Against Russia
- Ukraine Bans Use Of Russian And & Belarus Issued Credit & Debit Cards
- Georgia To Fast-Track Application For EU Membership
- Lavrov: West Rejected Dialogue On Establishing A New Security Dialogue
- Formula 1 Cancels 2022 Sochi Grand Prix
- Russia Faces Loss Of Digital Sovereignty
- Journalistic Unions: EU Censorship Of RT & Sputnik Is Counterproductive
- Russia Is Now Exclusively A Ruble Nation
- Western Accountants And Consultants Under Pressure To Abandon Russia
- Grushko: NATO Expansion East Is Like Searching For An Enemy
- European Commission: Russia Sanctions Could Backfire On EU
- EU Cuts Seven Russian Banks From SWIFT
- France Detains Foreign Mercenaries On Bus To Ukraine
Wednesday, March 2, 2022
- Chinese Nationals In Kiev Targeted By Ukrainian Anger
- Russia Steel Giant Severstal To Stop Deliveries To Europe
- Breaking: China won’t join the United States and European governments in imposing financial sanctions on Russia, the country’s bank regulator has announced.
- Breaking: EU imposes additional sanctions on Belarus, will impact Government and Military officials, stop Belarus exports to EU and hits Belarus economic sectors in timber, steel, and potassium industries.
- Ukrainian ‘Azov Battalion’ Fascist Group Won’t Let Ukrainian Citizens Leave Mariupol
- DHL Suspends Inbound Services To Russia
- Ukraine Would Demand Legally Binding Guarantees If NATO Shuts Door On Membership
- Breaking: Russia-Britain Business Council suspends business advisory services for UK companies in Russia
- More Ukraine-Russia Talks Today
- Sberbank Leaving European Markets
- Maersk Stops Shipping To Russia
- Breaking: Nationalist EU hatred emerging as eyewitness reports of Russian nationals and suspected Russian nationals in EU and UK being physically abused, beaten, harassed in public streets, and vilified online begin to appear.
- US Closes Its Airspace To Russian Flights
- Moscow Seeking Legally Binding Security Guarantees From NATO
- Nigeria Condemns EU Treatment Of Africans Trying To Flee Ukraine
- Denounce Putin Or Lose Your European Job
- Russian Opera Star Fired From Bavarian State Opera
- American Express No Longer Working With Russia’s Sanctioned Banks
- Could Putin Be Exploring Cryptocurrencies To Bypass Western Sanctions?
Tuesday, March 1
- Breaking: Ukraine withdraws Ambassadors from Georgia and Kyrgyzstan after Tblisi and Bishkek bar charter flights of mercenaries to Kiev.
- Nordstream 2 May File For Bankruptcy
- Lavrov: Presence Of Nuclear Weapons In Europe Is Unacceptable
- Fears For ‘Bloody Fight’ For Kiev As Huge Russian Army Gathers On Outskirts
- ‘No Plans To Occupy Ukraine’ Russia Tells UN
- Russians Face Economic Point Of No Return
- Russians Race For Cash As Ruble Plummets
- Russia Thrown Out Of FIFA World Cup And All International Football Banned
- Putin Bans Transferring Money Abroad
- Ukraine Issues Visa-Free Status For Foreign Mercenaries
- Georgian PM Says Opposition Wants To Drag Country Into War With Russia
- Putin To Macron: Ukraine Solution Only Possible If Russian Security Issues Are Considered
- Russia, Ukraine Agree To Return For Further Talks, Macron Speaks With Putin
- US Closes Embassy In Belarus
- Huge Belarussian Convoy Of Tanks & Troop Carriers Seen Near Ukrainian Border
- Russia Bans Airlines From 36 Countries
Monday, February 28
- Russian Exporters Ordered To Convert Foreign Currency Into Rubles
- Ukraine Names Key Points For Russia Talks
- Bank Of Russia Increases Key Interest Rates To 20%
- Baker & McKenzie To Axe Major Russian Clients
- Borrell: Russia Placed Reserves Where Sanctions Cannot Reach Them
- Talks Between Russia And Ukraine To Go Ahead Monday Morning
- Ruble Crashes 25%
- EU Commissioner: ‘Ukraine Belongs To Us And We Want Them In’
- EU To Provide Weapons To Ukraine
- Aeroflot Cancels Flights To All European Destinations
- Turkey Closes Black Sea Straits
- EU Bans RT And Sputnik News Outlets
Sunday, February 27
- Russia Puts Nuclear Defense Systems On High Alert
- Ukraine Will Meet Russia For Negotiations On Belarus Border
- US, UK, EU & Canada To Block Russian Access To SWIFT
- West Kicks Russian Banks Off SWIFT, Paralyzes Central Bank Assets
- EU Countries To Close Airspace For Russian Planes
- Vladimir Putin Sits Atop A Crumbling Pyramid Of Power
- Ukraine Reports Zelensky Proposes Baku For Negotiations
- Ukraine Suggests Gomel, Belarus As Venue For Talks With Russia
- Biden Says Alternative To Sanctions Would Be World War 3
- Ukraine Invites Foreign Troops To Fight Under ‘International Legion’
- Germany Closes Airspace To Russia
- Is Russia’s Invasion Going As Expected
Saturday, February 26
- Council Of Europe Suspends Russia’s Representation
- Medvedev: Russia Could Cut Diplomatic Ties With Entire West
- NATO Sending More Weapons To Ukraine
- Zelensky Accepts Putin’s Proposal, Ready For Talks
- Kiev Under Siege As Ukrainians Try To Hold Off Russian Forces
- China Calls For Sustainable European Security Mechanism
- Western Powers Have Realized Russia Is Immune To Sanctions
- Zakharova: Russia-West Relations ‘Nearing Point Of No Return’
- Turkey Declines Ukraine Request To Stop Russian Warships
Friday, February 25
- Ukraine President Offers Talks With Putin If Opportunity Exists
- Russia Will Retaliate Over Western Sanctions
- Putin Bans All UK Flights From Flying Over, Or Too Russia
- Anonymous Hackers Take Down RT Media Outlet
- Lavrov: West Turned A Blind Eye To Ukrainian Regime War Crimes In Donbas
- Kiev To Fall By The Weekend As Troops Encircle Capital
- Ukraine Fights For Survival As Putin Presses Forward
- Biden Imposes New Sanctions: ‘America Stands Up To Bullies’
- Kiev Furious As EU Wavers On Banning Russia From SWIFT
- Lavrov: Russia Always Welcome For Dialogue That Will Return All To UN Charter
- Ukraine Forces Vastly Outnumbered By Russia
- Russia’s Ukraine Operation Does Not Start A War, It Prevents One – Putin
- Russia Says Destroyed Over 70 Ukraine Military Targets
- ‘Amongst The Darkest Hours For Europe’ – Borrell
- Russia’s Central Bank Buys Up Rubles To Prevent Financial Meltdown
- Nordstream 2 To Enforce Compensation Claims
- Shelling Largely Over, Ukrainian Troops Changing Sides
Thursday, February 24
- Ukraine Breaks Diplomatic Relations With Russia
- Ukrainian Troops Leaving Their Positions, Dropping Weapons
- Ukraine Disconnected From Russia, Belarussian Energy Systems
- News Flash: Putin has asked Ukrainian military to stand down and not get involved, saying Russia has no desire to inflict casualties, the Ukrainian military is ultimately there to protect the Ukrainian people rather than politics, and that the conflict is solely the responsibility of the Ukrainian Government.
- Russia Invades Ukraine As Putin Declares War To ‘Demilitarize’ Its Neighbour
- Russian Troops Arrive In Odessa, Maripol & Kharkiv
- Understanding Putin’s Narrative About Ukraine Is The Master Key To This Crisis
- Kiev Declares National State Of Emergency
- US Imposes Sanctions On Nordstream2 Operator
- US Warns Of Full-Scale Ukraine Invasion With 48 Hours
- Fighting Intensifies In Eastern Ukraine
- NATO Accuses Russia Of Trying To Rewrite Entire Global Security Infrastructure
- UN Secretary-General Made Comments Incompatible With His Status: Lavrov
- Polish President: Russian Nationals May Be Barred From Entering Poland
Wednesday, February 23
- EU Poised To Announce Wide-Ranging Sanctions On Russia
- Harsh Conditions Means That Russian Troops On Ukrainian Border Will Need To Be Moved Soon
- Putin Says Russia’s Interests Are Non-Negotiable
- Blinken Cancels Planned Meeting With Lavrov
- Ukraine President Calls Up Reservists
- Why I Blame The Arrogant, Foolish West For The Ukraine Crisis
- Ensuring Russia’s Security Is Our Primary Aim: Putin
- Blinken Says Meeting Lavrov ‘Nonsensical’
- Biden Announces Sanctions That Will Cut Russia Off From Western Financing
- Sanctions Against Russia Come At A Cost To The West
- An Introduction To The Donetsk & Lugansk Republics
- Bolton Predicts Putin Will Walk All Over Biden And Is Waiting For Trumps Return
- Russia’s Poodle Parliament Cronies Authorise Use Of Force Outside Russia
- Kremlin Says How Donbas Borders Will Be Redefined
Tuesday, February 22
- Germany Pauses NordStream2 Certification
- Ukraine Says Will Consider Cutting Ties With Russia
- Russia Strongly Condemned At United Nations After Putin Orders Troops Into Eastern Ukraine
- Dismay And Condemnation As West Begins To Impose Sanctions On Russia
- Putin Orders Russian Military To Act As Peacekeepers In Ukraine Regions
- Biden Says Russia’s Recognition Of Donetsk & Lugansk Threatens US National Security
- Putin Signs Decree Recognizing Donetsk And Lugansk as Republics
- Putin Orders Troops Into Eastern Ukraine To Keep Peace
- Russia Orders Troops Into Ukrainian Territories
- US To Impose Sanctions On Donbas
- Macron Demands Targeted Sanctions On Moscow
Monday, February 21
- Kiev Calls For Urgent Sanctions On Russia
- Kremlin Says Talk Of Biden-Putin Summit Is Premature
- US, NATO Must Substantively Respond To Russia’s Security Demands: Putin
- Biden – Putin Summit Agreed In Principle
- US Embassy Warns About Terror Attacks In Russia
- US Officials Say Russian Commanders Given Final Orders To Attack
- Putin And Macron Agree To Try And Secure Ceasefire
- Russia Extends Military Drills In Belarus
Sunday, February 20
- Russia Plans Biggest War Since 1945: Johnson
- West Plans To Arm Resistance In Russia Invades Ukraine
- Kiev Shells Donetsk
- EU Condemns Donbass Shelling
- East Ukraine Separatist Regions To Evacuate Citizens To Russia
Saturday, February 19th
- Biden ‘Convinced’ Putin Plans Invasion
- US Unlikely To Kick Russia Off SWIFT – White House
- Two Powerful Gas Pipeline Explosions In Lugansk
- Huge Explosions Rock East Ukraine
Friday, February 18
- Biden To Host Call With NATO Allies As Invasion Fears Grow
- Blinken And Lavrov To Meet ‘Within Days’ As Tensions Become Perilous
- Russia Wil Be ‘Forced To Respond’ If US Does Not Engage On Security Demands
- US Unresponsive In Proposal To Remove Nuclear Weapons
- Donetsk Opens Fire In Response To Ukrainian Shelling
- Biden Declares War? Ukrainian Forces Target Civilians
- Joe Biden Accuses Russia Of Running ‘False Flag Operation’ To Justify Attacks
- Fresh Shelling Breaks Out in Eastern Ukraine as U.S. Accuses Russia of Invasion ‘Pretext’
- Russia Demands US Pulls All Troops From ‘Central and Eastern Europe’ and Expels US Deputy Ambassador
Thursday, February 17
- US Official Claim Russia Has Sent 7,000 More Troops To Ukraine Border
- US Troop Reinforcements Arrive On Polish Border
- US Deploys F-35 Fighter Jets To Germany
- Russia Ridicules Western Media Over ‘Day Of No Invasion’
- Anti-Russian Hysteria Affecting US Ability To Be Objective Over Ukraine
Wednesday, February 16
Today is when US intelligence said Russia would invade Ukraine
- Biden: Ukraine Invasion Still Possible Despite Russian Claims
- Scholz: Russia Doesn’t Want War
- NATO Says It Has Yet To See Any Significant Russian Withdrawal
- Tanks Leave Russia’s Southern Border As Troops Are Redeployed
- Russian State Duma Sends Appeal To Declare Donbass Republics As Sovereign States
- Lavrov: Ukraine Dropping NATO Bid Would Relieve Europe
- Where Does Belarus Stand In The Russia-West Standoff?
Tuesday, February 15
- Russia Sending Thousands More Troops To Ukrainian Border
- The West’s Focus On Imminent Invasion May Backfire
- US Stoking Russia-Ukraine Tensions Draws Global Concerns
- How European Leaders Are Dealing With The Ukraine Crisis: From Dealmaking France To Hawkish Poland
- Ukrainian Envoy Walks Back NATO Membership Comments
- Russian Lawmakers Urge Putin To Recognize Breakaway Ukrainian Regions
- Western States Want To Spark Conflict In Ukraine But Not Fight Themselves – Lukashenko
Monday, February 14
- German Leader To Fly To Moscow Amidst Fears Time Is Running Out
- Kiev Seeks Urgent Meeting With Russia & Vienna Document Signatories
- The Edge Of War: What Exactly Does Putin Want?
- Explainer: What Are The Minsk Agreements?
- !2 Reasons A Russian Attack On Ukraine Looks Imminent
- Details Of Biden-Putin Call
- Biden Warns Putin Ukraine Attack Would Bring ‘Severe Costs’
