Reported by Monika Pronczuk and Valerie Hopkins A powerful Russian businessman who has been under financial sanctions for nearly a decade has nevertheless used American and European banks to raise money for orphanages in a region that is at the heart of the Kremlin’s program of deporting Ukrainian children to Russia, records show. The businessman, Konstantin […]

Arkady Volozh’s decision to publicly condemn the war ‘poses a tricky question’ for the EU, according to western officials © Andrey Rudakov/Bloomberg Reported by Henry Foy in Brussels and Max Seddon in Riga Arkady Volozh, co-founder of Russian tech giant Yandex, has formally requested that the EU lift sanctions against him in the first big […]