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  • Thursday, 10 October, 2024
    Unilever PLC
    Unilever sells Russian business for €520mn

    Local manufacturer Arnest had previously snapped up Russian assets of Heineken

    A large Unilever sign on the exterior of a building
  • Thursday, 26 September, 2024
    Law
    Russian businessman loses London lawsuit against sanctioned oligarch Andrey Guryev

    Alexander Gorbachev had claimed he was entitled to a stake in PhosAgro

    High court in London
  • Sunday, 15 September, 2024
    War in Ukraine
    Russian state banks open branches in eastern Ukraine

    Sberbank and VTB are building footprints in Ukrainian cities despite western sanctions

    The logo of Sberbank at a branch in Moscow
  • Wednesday, 11 September, 2024
    War in Ukraine
    Vladimir Putin hints at curbing uranium exports

    Move in retaliation over sanctions could affect western nuclear reactors, many of which rely on Russian supplies

    Rail trucks loaded with rocks containing uranium
  • Thursday, 5 September, 2024
    Court puts block on sale of Raiffeisen bank’s Russian arm

    Temporary injunction by Kaliningrad judge freezes share transfers and thwarts Austrian lender’s efforts to exit country

    A Raiffeisen advertising sign is taken down in Moscow
  • Thursday, 5 September, 2024
    Unilever agrees sale of Russia business to Arnest

    Planned exit awaits state approval and would mark a major U-turn for FTSE 100 consumer goods giant

    Signage for Unilever Plc at the company’s headquarters in Rotterdam, Netherlands
  • Wednesday, 4 September, 2024
    War in Ukraine
    Russia built covert trade channel with India, leaks reveal

    Files outline Moscow’s plan to spend rupees from oil sales on sensitive electronics for war effort

    A montage of a hand holding Indian bank notes, a plane, arrows and a computer chip
  • Monday, 26 August, 2024
    News in-depth
    Complex Russian share swap scheme falls short of targets

    Caution on part of foreign investors undermines attempts to return over $1bn to millions of country’s retail investors

    roubles, dollars, share price background and Russia flag
  • Sunday, 25 August, 2024
    Telegram
    Russian lawmakers hit back at arrest of Telegram chief Durov in France

    Billionaire detained at Paris airport for failing to adequately moderate criminal activity on his messaging platform

    Pavel Durov, chief executive officer of Telegram, speaks during a keynote session at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, on Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2016. Durov is wearing a black shirt and a headset microphone.
  • Friday, 23 August, 2024
    US threatens sanctions against countries hosting Russian banks

    Deputy Treasury secretary Adeyemo says Washington will ‘go after’ branches used by Moscow to circumvent trade restrictions

    The Russian national flag flies atop the Russian State Duma building in central Moscow
  • Friday, 16 August, 2024
    War in Ukraine
    Top US oil group expands in Russia as rivals pull out

    Texas-based company has signed new contracts and recruited hundreds of staff despite the war in Ukraine

    Schlumberger installation on a drilling site in Russia
  • Thursday, 8 August, 2024
    Anheuser-Busch InBev SA
    Kremlin rejects Budweiser owner AB InBev’s plan to exit Russia

    Authorities tell joint venture partner Anadolu Efes ‘the current structure of the transaction has not been approved’

    Bottles of beer move along a conveyor belt at the Anheuser-Busch InBev NV Budweiser bottling facility
  • Thursday, 1 August, 2024
    Free LunchChris Cook
    No time to give up on Russia sanctions Premium content

    Kremlin has not been stopped in its tracks — but it does have sand in its gears

    A Russian flag and missile cruiser
  • Thursday, 1 August, 2024
    Western business, the Kremlin and the war
    The warlord, the runaway wife and the fight for Russia’s ecommerce crown

    Ramzan Kadyrov turns mediator in dispute over Russian online retailer amid fiercest asset grab since 1990s

    A montage of Tatiana Bakalchuk, Vladislav Bakalchuk and Ramzan Kadyrov with bank notes in the background
  • Tuesday, 30 July, 2024
    Raiffeisen Bank International AG
    Raiffeisen warns over capital hit from attempted Russia exit

    Austrian lender generated more than half of its profits in Russia and Belarus in the first six months of the year

    Workers use a crane to dismantle a signboard advertising Raiffeisen Bank from a building in Moscow
  • Sunday, 28 July, 2024
    EU energy
    Plan to send Azeri gas to Europe may simply disguise Russian fuel, say experts

    Kyiv examining plan to replace Russia gas supplies with fuel from Azerbaijan

    A worker inserts a drill tube into a rotary mantle on a gas rig
  • Friday, 26 July, 2024
    The Big Read
    Russia’s surprising consumer spending boom

    Heavy government expenditure and labour shortages have led to a sharp rise in real wages and consumption but the economy risks overheating

    Montage image of cash, buildings and aircraft over a Russian flag
  • Monday, 22 July, 2024
    War in Ukraine
    Mysterious Russia-linked buyers amass LNG ‘dark fleet’

    Acquisition spree has driven up prices of older vessels as Moscow prepares for tighter trade restrictions

    A tanker used for LNG
  • Sunday, 21 July, 2024
    Spy-linked Russians restart trade with German toolmaker

    Heller Tools exported machinery to entities linked to a covert FSB smuggling network

    Machine tools in a Heller factory
  • Thursday, 18 July, 2024
    War in Ukraine
    UK targets more Russian-linked oil tankers with sanctions

    Western officials believe the strategy is proving effective in undermining Moscow’s ability to export crude

    An oil tanker in Novorossiysk, Russia
  • Tuesday, 16 July, 2024
    Arkady Volozh
    Yandex founder to build AI business in Europe after Russia exit

    Arkady Volozh tells the FT he will launch artificial intelligence venture Nebius mostly staffed by former Yandex employees

    Arkady Volozh
  • Tuesday, 9 July, 2024
    War in Ukraine
    Modi and Putin to boost trade despite Ukraine war

    Volodymyr Zelenskyy calls Indian PM’s trip to Russia a ‘devastating blow to peace efforts’

    Russia’s President Vladimir Putin and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi walk during an informal meeting at the Novo-Ogaryovo state residence outside Moscow on Monday
  • Monday, 8 July, 2024
    LetterOne Holdings SA
    LetterOne claims sanctions on founders pushing capital away from the west

    Chair Mervyn Davies urges governments to review policies that are limiting investment group’s ability to do business

    Mervyn Davies, chair of LetterOne
  • Tuesday, 2 July, 2024
    FT Investigations
    How a London fund with a thorny history in Russia won global influence

    Gemcorp’s past activities in Africa appear aligned with the Kremlin’s strategic priorities. Now it has senior Conservatives on the payroll

    Pictures of Sergei Chemezov, Sergei Adoniev, Lord Gerry Grimstone, Lord Edward Lister and Atanas Bostandjiev
  • Monday, 1 July, 2024
    UniCredit SpA
    UniCredit questions ECB order to reduce operations in Russia

    Italian bank, one of several regional lenders told to speed up exits, says it is seeking clarification

    A branch of Unicredit Bank in Moscow.
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