Politics● LowSep 21 · Sep 21, 2026, 3:59 PM
EU Reportedly Set To Remove Sanctions On Russian Oligarchs Usmanov and Fridman
GlobeAlert Desk · curated from RFE/RL · Western Europe
The European Union looked set to remove Russian-Uzbek oligarch Alisher Usmanov and Russian-Israeli oligarch Mikhail Fridman from its sanctions list while prolonging the asset freezes and visa bans for the near 3,000 other individuals and entities on the blacklist by an unprecedented three years.
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