While the shock from Trump’s «diesel deal» with Putin and the American president’s statement that Ukraine needs a different president instead of Zelensky has not yet passed, I will try to explain from the standpoint of dispassionate economics why what happened is bad first and foremost for the United States itself.

#Analytics #VladimirZelensky #VladimirPutin #WarinUkraine #diesel #dollar #DonaldTrump #MunichAgreement #Russia #sanctions #USA #exportofpetroleumproducts

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Norilsk Nickel President Vladimir Potanin said in an interview with RBC that the tax burden on business has already exceeded the level after which it begins to hurt budget revenues. He named the shortage of investment as the key internal problem for the coming years.

#budget #Taxation #NorilskNickel #potanin #rbc #sanctions

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Russian authorities asked the US to lift sanctions during negotiations on an «energy ceasefire», The Kyiv Independent writes, citing Ukrainian and American sources. According to them, Moscow is also trying to tie sanctions relief to a ceasefire in the Black Sea.

#DonaldTrump #Russia #sanctions #USA #Ukraine #EnergetikaUkrainy

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Montenegrin authorities will expel from the country the founder of the Telegram channel «Rybar», Mikhail Zvinchuk, his wife, and three employees. Zvinchuk’s detention became known on the morning of October 9; Montenegrin law enforcement said they had prevented potentially dangerous activity by these people on the country’s territory.

#EuropeanUnion #MihailZvinchuk #Fisherman #sanctions #Montenegro

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Democratic and Republican leaders in the U.S. Senate — the ranking Democrat on the Foreign Relations Committee, Jeanne Shaheen, and the chairman of the Armed Services Committee, Roger Wicker — urged Donald Trump’s administration to impose sanctions on Russia more quickly. They sent a letter to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Secretary of State Marco Rubio.

#WarinUkraine #Democrats #DonaldTrump #Republicans #Russia #sanctions #USA

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In Vienna and the German city of Neustadt an der Weinstraße, raids were carried out on two entrepreneurs suspected of supplying cars to Russia in circumvention of European Union sanctions. This was reported by the Kaiserslautern prosecutor’s office; the court seized assets worth about 7 million euros.

#Austria #Belgium #Germany #EuropeandRussia #EU #Russia #sanctions

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Donald Trump approved the idea of easing American sanctions against Russia in exchange for the release of some Russian political prisoners, The Atlantic пишет. The initiative is at an early stage: the specific individuals involved and the list of possible sanctions concessions have not yet been disclosed.

#AlexandrLukashenko #VladimirZelensky #DonaldTrump #politicalprisoners #Russia #sanctions #USA #Ukraine

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The European Union imposed sanctions on 10 people and 17 organizations that the EU considers involved in the illegal deportation of Ukrainian children to Russia and to occupied territories, as well as in the «suppression of democratic opposition» in Russia. The restrictions affected Tatarstan head Rustam Minnikhanov, Russian officials in occupied territories, and the Songdowon children’s camp in North Korea.

#EU #odd #LevShlosberg #RussiaandEurope #sanctions #Apple

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While ordinary Russians are being denied the opportunity to obtain visas to the EU, sanctions are being lifted from two emblematic figures of Putin’s Russia. The negative consequences of this decision are clear. But are there any positive ones? 

#AlisherUsmanov #Analytics #VladimirPutin #WarinUkraine #doublestandards #EuropeanUnion #compromises #Luxembourg #MikhailFridman #oligarchs #sanctions #France #elites

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Lithuania has banned Russian billionaires Alisher Usmanov and Mikhail Fridman from entering the country for five years after the EU did not extend the restrictions against them. Both have been added to the national list of undesirable persons, and the ban took effect on September 25.

#AlisherUsmanov #europe #EU #Lithuania #MikhailFridman #sanctions

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On September 28, Vladimir Putin signed a decree that restricted access to information about the fuel and energy sector. It is now forbidden to distribute this information through the media and the internet, except for data that companies disclose themselves about their activities.

#VladimirPutin #oil #oilrefinery #Russia #Rosstat #sanctions #fuelcrisis

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In the referendum in Switzerland, 70.15% of participants voted against the initiative, which proposed enshrining a stricter interpretation of neutrality in the Constitution and limiting the country's ability to impose sanctions against states involved in wars. It was not supported by a single canton.

#ProSuisse #neutrality #sanctions #FederalCouncil #Switzerland #SwissPeoplesParty

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Bloomberg reported that Russian billionaires are studying the circumstances of the EU sanctions being lifted from Alisher Usmanov and Mikhail Fridman, hoping to use this experience in disputes with the European Union. At least two of the publication’s sources intend to view Fridman’s case as a precedent for their own lawsuits.

#AlisherUsmanov #EU #MikhailFridman #Russia #sanctions

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Leonid Volkov called the European Union’s decision to lift sanctions on Mikhail Fridman and Alisher Usmanov «shameful» and creating a «terrible precedent». He reminded that in 2022 he himself signed a letter to the European Commission asking for sanctions to be lifted on Fridman and other top managers of Alfa Group if a number of conditions were met.

#AlisherUsmanov #EU #LeonidVolkov #MikhailFridman #sanctions #FBK #JuliaNavalnaya

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U.S. President Donald Trump signed the law on «hellish sanctions» against Russia on Friday, September 18. The law also took effect on that date. But are these sanctions really so terrible? Or is this just another declaration of intent without an effective enforcement mechanism?

#Analytics #WarinUkraine #Putin #Russia #sanctions #USA #shadowfleet #Trump #finance

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Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council Dmitry Medvedev proposed that Russia move from transferring Western companies’ assets into temporary management to their gratuitous seizure. He linked this to the West’s reaction to Vladimir Putin’s decree on transferring the Russian assets of Nestle and Auchan into the temporary management of JSC «L. E. V. Management».

#auchan #nestlé #VladimirPutin #DmitryMedvedev #sanctions #SecurityCounciloftheRussianFederation

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Инвесткомпания Grizzly Research опубликовала расследование о работе австрийского Raiffeisen Bank International в России и заявила, что нашла торговые операции на $1,19 млрд с товарами, подпадающими под западные санкционные и экспортные ограничения. После публикации акции RBI в моменте падали почти на 9%.

#GrizzlyResearch #RaiffeisenBankInternational #Iran #Raiffeisenbank #Russia #sanctions

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Raiffeisen Bank International shares fell 9% during trading on September 17 after a report by short-sellers Grizzly Research. The report accused the bank of helping to circumvent sanctions against Russia.

#GrizzlyResearch #UKIA #RaiffeisenBankInternational #EuropeanCentralBank #Russia #sanctions

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Since the beginning of 2026, 12 new settlement non-bank credit institutions (RNCOs) have appeared in Russia, according to data from the Bank of Russia. This is already more than for the entire year of 2025, when 11 such organizations received licenses.

#Russia #sanctions #finance #CentralBank

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France is seeking from European Union countries the lifting of sanctions on Russian billionaire Alisher Usmanov in exchange for the release of several French citizens who are imprisoned in Azerbaijan. Because of this dispute, EU ambassadors on Monday agreed only to a one-week postponement and extended sanctions against nearly 3,000 individuals and legal entities until September 22.

#Azerbaijan #AlisherUsmanov #WarinUkraine #EU #sanctions #Ukraine #France

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