In this week's newsletter, RFE/RL Europe Editor Rikard Jozwiak drills down on two issues: When Russia could get sanctions relief and Marco Rubio’s first NATO ministerial

A senior German politician, Michael Kretschmer, has raised concerns that the economic sanctions imposed on Russia due to its invasion of Ukraine may be doing more harm to Europe than to Russia itself.

The European Union should stop pretending that its sanctions policy towards Russia may diverge from Washington's line. This is reported by Euractiv magazine.

The German government has no knowledge of any planned changes to EU sanctions against Russia despite Moscow's call for Russian banks' readmission to the SWIFT system. Russia seeks sanctions relief for a Black Sea security deal,

“Kleptotrace” is a project co-financed by the European Union which aims to address transnational high-level corruption and sanctions circumvention. A consortium of research teams are working towards best practices and policy recommendations, and Bogdanova and Silvia Allegrezza make up the Luxembourg team.

The Trump administration has restarted diplomatic conversations with Russia regarding the U.S.'s interest in seeing an end to their war in Ukraine.

The leader of the rebels who captured two key cities in eastern Congo says international sanctions and the planned minerals deal that the country has offered the U.S. will not stop the fighting in the

Cyprus says its cooperation with the U.S. to combat money laundering, sanctions evasion and other financial crimes remains “close and intensive” despite the disbanding of a U.S. program aimed at seizing the assets of Russian oligarchs.

Those flows could resume if sanctions are eased. Europe had been the main buyer of Russian oil and gas before the war. Several rounds of European Union sanctions - the latest package got extended ...