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News Articles: Russia sanctions

Oil tankers are seen at the Sheskharis complex, part of Chernomortransneft JSC, a subsidiary of Transneft PJSC, in Novorossiysk, Russia, on Oct. 11. This is one of the largest facilities for oil and petroleum products in southern Russia.

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  • World

Russia has amassed a shadow fleet to ship its oil around sanctions

Russia would have to use tankers willing to get around sanctions to ship its crude to Asia. It's known in the oil industry as a "shadow fleet."

January 21, 2023
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By:
  • Jackie Northam
Russian President Vladimir Putin delivers a speech during an expanded meeting of the Russian Defense Ministry Board at the National Defense Control Center in Moscow on Wednesday.

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  • World

Russia's economy is still working but sanctions are starting to have an effect

Despite unprecedented sanctions, Russia's economy is still functioning and it's still attacking Ukraine. That's led to questions about whether the sanctions are effective.

December 27, 2022
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  • Jackie Northam
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  • World

Latest on Ukraine: A weekly recap and look ahead at Russia's war (Dec. 12)

Catch up on key developments and the latest in-depth coverage of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

December 12, 2022
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  • NPR Staff
An oil tanker is moored at the Sheskharis complex, part of Chernomortransneft JSC, a subsidiary of Transneft PJSC, in Novorossiysk, Russia, Oct. 11, one of the largest facilities for oil and petroleum products in southern Russia. The deadline is looming for Western allies to agree on a price cap on Russia oil.

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  • World

What to know about the West's new efforts to slash Russia's oil revenue

Plans take effect next week that would ban most Russian oil imports from Europe and put a price cap on the oil going elsewhere. But Russia could still make money off oil to fund its war in Ukraine.

December 02, 2022
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By:
  • Jackie Northam
A photograph taken Tuesday shows charred goods in a grocery store of the destroyed Amstor mall in Kremenchuk, central Ukraine, one day after it was hit by a Russian missile strike.

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  • Europe

Russia-Ukraine war: What happened today (June 28)

A roundup of key developments and the latest in-depth coverage of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

June 28, 2022
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  • NPR Staff
A photograph taken Tuesday shows charred goods in a grocery store of the destroyed Amstor mall in Kremenchuk, central Ukraine, one day after it was hit by a Russian missile strike.

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  • Europe

Russia-Ukraine war: What happened today (June 28)

A roundup of key developments and the latest in-depth coverage of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

June 28, 2022
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  • NPR Staff
Russian President Vladimir Putin meets with the head of Russia's Federal Financial Monitoring Service, Yury Chikhanchin, at the Kremlin in Moscow on Monday.

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  • Business

What's happening with Russia's 1st default on foreign debt in a century

The clock ran out on Russia's payments. But there's a twist: Russia does not consider itself in default because the country has the money, just its payments have been blocked by Western sanctions.

June 27, 2022
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By:
  • Alina Selyukh
From left, Romanian President Klaus Iohannis, Prime Minister of Italy Mario Draghi, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, France's President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz attend a press conference in Kyiv on Thursday. The French, German, Italian and Romanian leaders vowed to back Kyiv's bid to become an official candidate to join the European Union.

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  • World

Russia-Ukraine war: What happened today (June 16)

A roundup of key developments and the latest in-depth coverage of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

June 16, 2022
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  • NPR Staff
A boy plays in front of a destroyed house in the village of Andriivka, Kyiv region, on Friday, the 100th day of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

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  • Europe

Russia-Ukraine war: What happened today (June 3)

A roundup of key developments and the latest in-depth coverage of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

June 03, 2022
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By:
  • NPR Staff
A missile lies on the ground in the city of Lysychansk, in the eastern Ukrainian region of Donbas, on Thursday. Ukraine said the war in the region hit maximum level.

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  • World

Russia-Ukraine war: What happened today (May 26)

A roundup of key developments and the latest in-depth coverage of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

May 26, 2022
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By:
  • NPR Staff
Siemens headquarters in Munich, Germany, pictured in May 2019. The German industrial giant is ending operations in Russia after more than a century.

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  • Business

German industrial giant Siemens is leaving Russia after nearly 170 years

The company first arrived in Russia in 1851 to deliver devices for a major telegraph line. It primarily does maintenance work on high-speed trains these days — though it's now winding down operations.

May 12, 2022
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By:
  • Rachel Treisman
Pipes are seen at the gas transmission point in Rembelszczyzna near Warsaw, Poland, on Wednesday.

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  • Europe

What Russia cutting off energy to Poland and Bulgaria means for the world

It was seen as a way for Russia to prop up its currency and retaliate for Western sanctions, but it could cause global energy prices to spike. One analyst sees it as a warning to the rest of Europe.

April 28, 2022
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  • Joe Hernandez,
  • Jackie Northam,
  • and 1 more
The logo of Russia's energy giant Gazprom is pictured at a gas station in Moscow.

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  • Europe

Russia halts gas exports to Poland and Bulgaria, hitting back at Europe over sanctions

The move was widely seen as an effort to prop up the ruble and strike back at Europe amid an onslaught of Western penalties levied against Russian banks.

April 27, 2022
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  • Joanna Kakissis
Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin in 2017.

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  • Europe

200,000 could lose their jobs as Western companies withdraw, Moscow mayor says

The city is preparing to retrain some workers and give temporary public works jobs to thousands more as a growing number of Western companies distance themselves from Russia.

April 18, 2022
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  • Rachel Treisman
The luxury superyacht Dilbar sails off the coast of Monaco in 2017.

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  • Europe

Germany seizes the world's largest yacht (at least according to volume)

German authorities impounded the 15,917-ton yacht after confirming that sanctioned Russian billionaire Alisher Usmanov had transferred ownership to his sister, who is also under Western sanctions.

April 14, 2022
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  • Rachel Treisman
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