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By Iain Withers LONDON (Reuters) – HSBC will halt commercial payments by business customers to and from Russia and Belarus, the bank said on Friday, as lenders tighten restrictions beyond …

By Tom Balmforth and Stefaniia Bern KYIV (Reuters) – Ukraine’s human rights commissioner has called for more international pressure on Moscow to help Kyiv bring home thousands of Ukrainian children …

By Philip Pullella ABOARD THE PAPAL PLANE (Reuters) – Pope Francis acknowledged on Monday that his recent comments on Russia, seen by Ukraine as praise for imperialism, were badly phrased …

ANKARA (Reuters) – Turkey’s top economic policymakers are visiting Russia for meetings on Monday, a source said, travelling along with President Tayyip Erdogan who will meet Kremlin chief Vladimir Putin …

By Andrew Osborn LONDON (Reuters) – Armenia’s prime minister has said his country’s policy of solely relying on Russia to guarantee its security was a strategic mistake because Moscow has …

(Reuters) – Some 280,000 people have signed up so far this year for professional service with Russia’s military, the deputy chair of the Russian Security Council, former President Dmitry Medvedev, …

MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian Deputy Finance Minister Alexei Moiseev said on Friday that the government would not allow foreign banks to leave Russia easily. “We have stated our position and …

By Alexander Marrow and Elena Fabrichnaya (Reuters) – Accelerating inflation will force Russia to maintain double-digit interest rates deep into next year, a Reuters poll showed on Friday, while the …

By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres said on Thursday that he had sent Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov “a set of concrete proposals” aimed …

MOSCOW (Reuters) -A Russian restaurateur and a pro-Kremlin rapper who together bought Starbucks’ business in Russia last year are now taking over the Russian assets of Domino’s Pizza, they announced …

(Reuters) – Russia said it shot down a Ukrainian drone flying towards Moscow in the early hours of Monday in an incident that once again briefly disrupted flights over the …

By Alexander Marrow (Reuters) – Russian authorities are working on a draft presidential decree to give the country’s retail investors a way to unblock their frozen assets held in overseas …

By David Gauthier-Villars and Gleb Stolyarov DUBAI (Reuters) – A Ural Airlines Airbus landed in the Russian city of Yekaterinburg on Nov. 14 last year. Then it remained grounded on …

By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States does not encourage or enable attacks inside Russia, a U.S. State Department spokesperson said after Russian authorities said they downed drones …

MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday that inflationary risks were rising and he told the government and central bank to keep the situation under control. The …

BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The euro zone swung back into a large trade surplus in June from a similar size deficit 12 months earlier, as imports from both Russia and China …

KYIV (Reuters) – The Ukrainian government is to build new fortifications and military infrastructure in northeast regions that border Russia and Belarus at a cost of nearly $35 million, Prime …