Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orbán was delighted to learn last week that Russia and the United States had chosen his country as the venue for another summit on ending the war in Ukraine.

A Russian official who remains subject to sanctions from the United States and the United Kingdom was reinstated to the FIA’s World Motor Sport Council earlier this year.

Kirill Dmitriev, a close Putin ally, says trip was scheduled before Treasury slapped restrictions on Rosneft and Lukoil

The European Union has agreed on a new raft of sanctions against Russia targeting its shadow fleet of oil tankers and banning its imports of liquefied natural gas, while EU leaders on Thursday also en

Reliance Industries Ltd , the top Indian buyer of Russian oil, will abide by Western sanctions against Moscow while maintaining its relationship with current oil suppliers, its spokesperson said in a statement.

The pace of the strikes has quickened in recent days from one every few weeks in September when they first began to three this week.

The European Union on Thursday heaped more economic sanctions on Russia, adding to U.S. President Donald Trump’s new punitive measures the previous day against the Russian oil industry. Russian President Vladimir Putin called Washington's move an “unfriendly act” that could backfire by spiking global oil prices.