Cellist and longtime Putin friend Sergei Roldugin is on the proposed list. The EU is also looking

The Russian president, who was blacklisted the day after his Feb.... A company placed on the entity list faces sweeping restrictions on shipments to Russia of both U.S. and foreign commodities, technology and software, if produced with U.S. equipment, technology or software. Putin sent his troops over the border on what he calls a special military operation on Feb.... Ukraine and its allies call this a baseless pretext for a war of aggression.( Reporting by Simon Lewis and Doina Chiacu; additi

The RBC media group had developed a distinctive line in investigative fact-based journalism, which was much more dangerous to the authorities than radical opinions. It could no longer be tolerated by the Kremlin or supported even by its liberal oligarch owner.