After the Central Bank of Russia limited withdrawals of foreign currencies, Russians turned to crypto as a way of hedging and liquidising their assets.
The flow of board directors leaving Russian companies has increased in recent days, with Steel giant Evraz and supermarket chain Lenta losing swathes of directors.
The war between two of the world’s top grain exporters, Russia and Ukraine, has sent prices to record levels and forced importers to urgently seek out alternative sources.
International rating agency Fitch has downgraded Russia's sovereign rating to “imminent default” on March 8 and said that a default is “inevitable.” Is Russia going to repeat its default of 1998?
What to expect from the Russia-backed separatist republic on Ukraine's western flank.
What to expect from the Russia-backed separatist republic on Ukraine's western flank.
The price of gas on the Dutch TTH spot market soared to a new all-time high of over $3,000 per thousand cubic metres on March 7 as energy traders fear Ukraine's gas pipelines and storage tanks are in danger from the war.
More than 20,000 Russians have already fled to Georgia in the days since their country launched the invasion of Ukraine. Many Georgians say they are not welcome.
The Kremlin has need of soldiers that will not baulk from a fight, and whose deaths are likely to provoke little opprobrium. Enter Ramzan Kadyrov, the brutal, mercurial ruler of Chechnya, and his personal army.
The idea that the Eurasian Economic Union can help Moscow violate sanctions is exaggerated.
Pensioners, an MP and a former beauty queen are among the women who have taken up arms and vowed to fight to defend Ukraine.
Central and Eastern Europe’s arms industry should also benefit from the shift of defence up the list of political priorities.
With the exception of Latvia, women in countries across the region are among the almost 2.4bn worldwide that don’t enjoy the same economic rights as men.
NGOs question government strategy of paying Poles to put up Ukrainians in their homes.
Hungary's strongman now tries to portray himself as the leader who can keep Hungary out of the Ukraine conflict.
For now, “balancing act has implicit OK from US-European coalition against Putin’s war”, says academic Louis Fishman. Ankara important for coalition as interlocutor with Russia, he adds.
Sanctions are hitting Belarus hard and the regime is running out of tools to handle it. How will this affect Belarusian society?
The economies are closely linked – and the trouble could not have come at a worse time.
Research group calculates 124%. Country braces for impacts from Ukraine war. Black Sea trade has simply stopped.
Bankers and investors are nervously watching Russia’s interbank interest rates for a spike that would foreshadow the start of a banking crisis. While rates have risen in the last days, they are not yet at the levels that would ring alarm bells.