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A Russian billionaire and three associates were criminally charged in New York on Thursday with conspiring to violate U.S. sanctions and plotting to ensure his child was born in the United States.

A U.S. ban on seafood imports from Russia over its invasion of Ukraine was supposed to sap billions of dollars from Vladimir Putin’s war machine

The European Union has imposed sanctions on two adult daughters of Russian President Vladimir Putin as part of a new package of measures targeting Russia for its invasion of Ukraine, according to two EU officials

The West has used “financial nuclear weapons” against Russia, and its economy will really see the worst of the effects of sanctions by the end of the year, says George Washington University professor of international affairs and business Scheherazade Rehman. As 2022 continues, Russia’s monetary reserves will run low and there will be shortages and high inflation. That might turn...

Luxury fashion brand Chanel says it will stop selling its clothes, perfumes and other luxury goods to Russian customers abroad if they plan to take the products back to the country

The Dutch government says it is making sure a dozen yachts ordered by super-wealthy Russians are not delivered to anyone as part of sanctions imposed over the war in Ukraine

The penalties cut all of Putin’s close family members off from the U.S. financial system and freezes any assets they hold in the United States.

The Treasury Department will not allow any Russian government debt payments from accounts at U.S. financial institutions to be made in U.S. dollars, an agency official says

The DOJ alleges in a warrant the yacht should be forfeited because billionaire Viktor Vekselberg violated U.S. bank fraud, money laundering and sanctions statutes.

Merrick Garland spoke after authorities seized a yacht from a Russian oligarch in Spain.

The comments to reporters came after Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy visited Bucha, one of the towns surrounding Kyiv where Ukrainian officials say the bodies of civilians have been found.

Speaking from the NATO Summit in Brussels on Thursday, President Joe Biden announced $1 billion in humanitarian aid to Ukraine and new sanctions against Russia. “NATO has never been more united than it is today. Putin is getting exactly the opposite of what he intended to have as a consequence of going into Ukraine.”

Economists said the move appeared designed to try to support the ruble, which has collapsed against other currencies after Western countries hit Russia with far-reaching sanctions

Russian forces continue their assault on the Ukraine port city of Mariupol on Saturday, shelling a mosque that was sheltering more than 80 people, including children, according to the Ukrainian government. Fighting also raged on the outskirts of Ukraine’s capital, Kyiv.

What sanctions have been imposed on Russia? Western nations have been largely united in punishing Russia economically. Here’s a list of actions taken by the global community over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

The U.S. will also ban imports of Russian seafood, alcohol and diamonds.

An attempt to evacuate civilians from the besieged port of Mariupol was thrown into jeopardy by continued fighting Tuesday as conditions grew more desperate inside the city of 430,000, with corpses in the streets and hungry residents breaking into stores for food.

As the conflict with Ukraine continues, some Russian banks have not been hit with U.S. sanctions, says Joel Rubin, a former U.S. deputy assistant secretary of state. The sanctions currently in place have devalued the Russian ruble and hurt President Vladimir Putin’s financial system, and the longer they stay, the more it will hurt Putin.

Russian oligarchs are connected to many properties in New York, including a posh townhouse in the West Village — but seizing that property is not simple, as the NBC New York I-Team found that Russian real estate is often hiding behind webs of shell companies

The Biden administration is ordering new sanctions against Russian oligarchs and others in President Vladimir Putin’s inner circle as Russian forces pummel Ukraine, but here’s why it’s not easy to put those sanctions into action. NBC New York’s Chris Glorioso reports.