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CNN  —  The United States government took a slew of actions against Russia on Tuesday, sanctioning those whom it says support Russia’s defense industrial base,…

WASHINGTON — Four months into the war in Ukraine, the countries aligned against Russia face growing economic pain even as sanctions and energy embargoes are showing little impact on Russian President Vladimir V. Putin’s military campaign…

Traders of Russian commodities are rushing to set up businesses in Dubai as Switzerland makes it increasingly challenging for them to deal with Moscow. Switzerland has for decades been home to middlemen helping to match Russian producers…

Russia has been preparing for sanctions since 2014, after it annexed Crimea. Moscow was already hit by a range of Western-led sanctions after the annexation.…

Sanctions have affected many aspects of life in Russia, but one particular shortage has sent the wealthy elite into a spin: beauty clinics are running out of Botox. The business daily newspaper Kommersant reported this month that Botox…

Russian companies have been plunged into a technological crisis by western sanctions that have created severe bottlenecks in the supply of semiconductors, electrical equipment and the hardware needed to power the nation’s data…

Russia Ukraine News Live: Canadian Minister of Foreign Affairs Melanie Joly announced on Tuesday that Canada is imposing new sanctions on Russia's financial sector.In a news release, the minister said the new measures would impose…

Kyiv has been unable to export grain supplies due to Russia’s invasion, which has sent global food prices soaring.Russian President Vladimir Putin has told the leaders of France and Germany that Moscow was “ready” to look for ways to…

Saudi Arabia has signalled it will stand by Russia as a member of the Opec+ group of oil producers despite tightening western sanctions on Moscow and a potential EU ban on Russian oil imports.Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman, the…

WASHINGTON — The most punishing sanctions that U.S. officials have threatened to impose on Russia could cause severe inflation, a stock market crash and other forms of financial panic that would inflict pain on its people — from…