Wealthy customers hit with hefty charges as importers forced to take longer routes
Customs records show middlemen are keeping high-end fashion flowing to Moscow despite sanctions
Bloc received 16.5mn tonnes of liquefied natural gas by mid-December despite efforts to reduce supplies from Russia
Central bank holds interest rate at 21%
Tankers carrying Russian oil must show they have adequate cover when passing through European waters
One vessel’s prow breaks off and another craft runs aground in Kerch Strait off Crimea
Ozon and Wildberries welcome Chinese sellers looking for new markets as sanctions hit both countries’ traders
One of only two Europeans sanctioned for trading Russian oil says he was duped by an alleged ‘conman’
G7’s $50bn loan is no substitute for transferring blocked foreign exchange reserves to Ukraine
Measures adopted so far are too cumbersome to match Russia’s artful ways of circumventing them
Multibillion-dollar ring across London, Moscow and Dubai connected cash-rich criminals with sanctions evaders
Danish brewer had previously accused the Kremlin of ‘stealing’ the business
Western commentators should take care not to be misled by statistics that the Kremlin has turned into a weapon of war
Pressure on currency set to continue as curbs against lenders such as Gazprombank hit export payments
Move in effect bans state-owned bank from global financial system in blow to payments for Moscow’s war effort
US founder of private equity firm Baring Vostok says ordeal ‘could happen to anybody’
Purchases of vehicles from Asian nation’s automakers reach fresh records as Russians ‘vote with their wallets’
Economy ministry instructs import terminal to refuse planned shipment of LNG
Pitch by Sergei Tsivilev, a relative of Vladimir Putin, aimed to tighten oversight of Rosneft and nationalise Lukoil
Trump victory puts a twist in the tale of Moscow vs America’s biggest bank
A quick look at a largely untradeable Trump trade
Deal would signal Moscow’s diminishing influence on Balkan energy networks
Technological and geopolitical competition between democracies and autocracies are two sides of the same coin
Moscow pushes Soviet-style trade after western sanctions cause months-long payment delays
About 400 companies and individuals in China, India, Turkey and other countries are added to sanctions list
