Sentences with phrase «western sanctions»

According to Rosfinmonitoring, the total number of real estate brokers in Russia, including individual entrepreneurs, is estimated at more than 11,000, and despite the current crisis in the country caused by Western sanctions, it continues to grow.

Oreshkin says the financial downturn in Russia, caused by Western sanctions, has made sellers less likely to use the services of real estate brokers.

Then Russia slapped sanctions on foreign cheese in retaliation for Western sanctions.

State - controlled oil producer OAO Rosneft said it has paid back $ 7 billion of a bridge loan it had taken to acquire TNK - BP, the largest foreign debt repayment by a Russian company since Western sanctions were imposed.

Western sanctions due to Russia's support of rebel forces in Ukraine have...

And given Russia's currently ongoing major economic decline due to Western sanctions, the idea to be with a American man has become even more attractive to Russian women.

Among oil companies, Exxon Mobil began drilling in Russia's Arctic on Aug. 9 despite Western sanctions on its Russian partner Rosneft over Ukraine crisis.

And the damage from sanctions by Russian government upon Russian population is by orders of magnitude greater than damage from Western sanctions upon Russian government.

«The drop was due to the Western sanctions on Iran being lifted.

Vladimir Putin brushed aside Western sanctions against his closest aides yesterday by recognising Crimea as a sovereign state.

While the Iranian option was most favorable to India, heavy Western sanctions have made businesses weary of trading through this route.

Failure by the State in question to support such a committee — should result in Western sanctions of the severest kind.

Iran was producing that much before Western sanctions reduced its exports.

Putin's actions, in open breach of international law and UN treaties, led to a protracted conflict in Ukraine, the imposition of western sanctions against Russia, and Russia's expulsion from the G8 group of countries.

Mergers and acquisitions involving Russian companies, including Morgan Stanley's planned sale of its global oil - trading unit to Rosneft, are threatened by Western sanctions on Moscow over the Ukraine crisis.

President Nicolas Maduro hopes the country's own digital currency will help it to make financial transactions and get around Western sanctions.

Analysts and investors in Moscow said the sanctions could consign Russia to years of low growth, frustrating government efforts to stimulate a rebound from a two - year downturn brought on by low oil prices and Western sanctions over Moscow's role in the Ukraine crisis.

A Bloomberg investigation has uncovered a plan by Venezuela and Syria to circumvent Western sanctions on the Middle Eastern nation and ship its crude oil to Aruba to refine it and then market it internationally, including in the U.S.

The venerable oil and gas giant lost its AAA rating from Standard and Poor in April 2016, which thought a symbolic loss (it shared the rating with Microsoft and Johnson & Johnson) indicated the damage wrought by years of low prices and some pretty terrible luck, notably Tillerson's lost $ 500 billion deal in Russia as the result of Western sanctions.

«Rising domestic socioeconomic stresses in Russia — caused by dwindling oil revenues and the impact of Western sanctions — will fuel President Putin's anti-western rhetoric and increase the likelihood of him seeking foreign «distractions»,» Alastair Newton, senior political analyst at Nomura, said in a note Wednesday.

The oil price decline, coupled with Russia's conflict with Ukraine which has led to Western sanctions on Russia, has hit the economy as well as investor confidence in the country.

Low domestic demand for gas due to low economic growth: Even before the imposition of western sanctions, Russia's domestic economy had already started slowing down.

Furthermore, Western sanctions to protest Russia's intervention in eastern Ukraine have created concerns for Russia about market access.

The Russian forex has practically halved in benefit considering that the summer as it faces a «perfect storm» of lower oil rates, looming economic downturn and Western sanctions more than Ukraine.

MILESTONES By Michael Shari A fissure is opening in the bulwarks of Western sanctions that have isolated Iran from the global banking system since the early 1980s.

What the report didn't mention, however, was the outlook for Iran in 2016 as it returns to the world market now that it's free of Western sanctions.

Policymakers see raising the pension age - currently 55 for women and 60 for men - as a way of spurring faster growth at a time when Western sanctions are a drag on the economy.

BEIJING / LONDON (Reuters)- Exxon Mobil (XOM.N) is pushing ahead with efforts to develop its $ 15 billion Far East Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) project with Russia's Rosneft (ROSN.MM) despite being forced to exit some joint ventures due to Western sanctions.

Tokyo and Seoul, however, will need to navigate territorial disputes, Russian objections to ballistic missile defense plans, and Western sanctions.

This is most visibly seen in infrastructure, while China also recently surpassed Germany as the main exporter to Russia of machinery.121 Combined with Western sanctions policies that have made Russia a less attractive place to do business, China's growing clout in Russia suggests that Chinese companies are able to undercut Western competitors in Russia.

Beyond the actual gas project and LNG sales, China's state - run shipping conglomerate COSCO has also secured a 50 percent stake in the four LNG shipping carriers serving Yamal.90 Chinese engineers and workers have been deployed to the Yamal Peninsula to help construct surrounding infrastructure, which includes a Chinese - produced polar drilling rig.91 Moreover, a Chinese oil and gas rig producer now provides Russia with about 60 percent of its imported oil rig supplies, indicating that China is becoming a dominant player in this sphere.92 Chinese media recently hailed Yamal as an example of China's construction and engineering prowess and a symbol of its transformation into an Arctic player.93 In return for China stepping into support the project, senior officials from Novatek, the main shareholder of the project, announced that the first LNG shipment would symbolically go to China.94 But a British subsidiary of Malaysia's Petronas purchased the first shipment of Yamal LNG and sold it to France's Engie, which then shipped the cargo to its Boston import facility for American use.95 Western sanctions on Novatek, Russia's largest independent national gas producer and a company with close ties to the Kremlin, made Yamal's pivot to China possible, as sanctions forced Russia to find an alternative source of investment and technology.

The rouble has weakened some 30 percent versus the dollar this year, as Western sanctions over the Ukraine crisis have made it harder for banks and companies to refinance foreign currency debts and as tumbling oil prices have hurt government revenue.

BEIJING / LONDON, May 3 Exxon Mobil is pushing ahead with efforts to develop its $ 15 billion Far East Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) project with Russia's Rosneft despite being forced to exit some joint ventures due to Western sanctions.

Russia is China's top crude supplier for the first time since October 2005 as it seeks new markets for its crude amid western sanctions over its dispute with Ukraine.

Everything changed in 2014, when a combination of Western sanctions and falling oil prices created a toxic environment not seen since the 1998 financial crisis.

Although the oil and gas industry is a major target of Western sanctions, financial strains have been partially alleviated by reducing capital expenditure and rouble devaluation, which cut operating costs by around 30 %.

The collapse of oil prices and Western sanctions have plunged the Russian economy into a death spiral.

The Ukraine crisis and Western sanctions on Russia had raised expectations Moscow would compromise to secure the gas deal.

For example, Chinese investment is pouring into African floating LNG projects, import terminals, tankers and traditional land - based plants such as the $ 12 billion invested in Russia's Yamal facility, used to skirt Western sanctions.

Western sanctions forced Exxon to exit some joint ventures with Rosneft in late February, but LNG is not part of the sanctions.

But a series of shocks to the market — including plunging oil prices, Western sanctions, recession and higher beer taxes — has diminished its weight in the brewer's earnings.

BEIJING / LONDON, May 3 - Exxon Mobil is pushing ahead with efforts to develop its $ 15 billion Far East Liquefied Natural Gas project with Russia's Rosneft despite being forced to exit some joint ventures due to Western sanctions.

The Russian economy has been hit by low oil prices and western sanctions and is set to contract 0.6 percent this year, according to data from the International Monetary Fund.

Exxon Mobil will exit some joint ventures with Russia's Rosneft, citing Western sanctions first imposed in 2014.

Some members of the group say they are being squeezed by a tough economy, Western sanctions on Russia, and powerful state - run companies that are muscling in on nearly all sectors of the economy.

The move comes at a time when Maduro's socialist government is in the midst of a crackdown on domestic freedoms and Caracas» financial transactions have been hamstrung by Western sanctions.

Instead, he has been scrambling to evade Western sanctions and find new sources of exports and investment in Asia.

An associate of Sechin's, the dossier claims, «said that the Rosneft President was so keen to lift personal and corporate Western sanctions imposed on the company, that he offered Page and his associates the brokerage of up to a 19 percent (privatised) stake in Rosneft.»

Maduro has said that he hopes the Petro will help the country skirt Western sanctions, though the U.S. Treasury has warned that it won't be that easy.

Iran has been working to regain market share after Western sanctions over its disputed nuclear program were lifted in 2016 under a deal between the country and six major powers.