Russia’s government banned wholesale imports of fresh food products from the European Union in 2014 in retaliation for Western states imposing sanctions on Russia over its annexation of Crimea and support for separatists in eastern Ukraine, Reuters reports. Suren Matevosyan, ...

European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker has said that the European Commission will make a proposal for visa liberalization with Ukraine in April, Joinfo.ua reports with reference to UNIAN. “As far as visa liberalization is concerned, we have a shared interest ...

As Kommersant informs with reference to experts, Russian companies can not receive loans in Chinese banks, Joinfo.ua reports. Chinese banks also force the Russian companies to close their accounts and transfer funds to other banks. According to experts, Russian company ...

Deputy head of the Kerch city administration Roman Kirichenko says that the Kerch sea port plans to dismiss 710 employees on April 20, 2015, Joinfo.ua reports with reference to 15minut.org. The dismissal is caused by the slump of cargo turnover ...

December 22, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has imposed financial restrictions on 34 people and entities for helping Russian and Ukrainian companies evade U.S. penalties and other infractions, said in the press release, Joinfo.ua ...

The air traffic between Ukraine and Russia will stop from October 25. This was announced by  Minister of Infrastructure of Ukraine Andriy Pivovarsky during the German-Ukrainian business forum in Berlin. “For numerous requests of the Russian side, the technical consultations ...

A creative response to the new sanctions against Russia was made by the Omsk residents. One of the Omsk advertisers began to produce toilet paper with the text of Western sanctions, which EU and the US imposed against Russia, Joinfo.com reports ...