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Russia imposes sanctions against Ukraine companies, businessmen, politicians
Sergei Kuznetsov in Kyiv
Russia has imposed economic sanctions on 322 Ukrainian individuals and 68 legal entities, among which are public companies, oligarchs as well
as politicians, according to the special resolution signed by Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev on November 1.
The move comes after four years of bitter
Erdogan’s last mega- infrastructure hurrah? Turkish president opens one of world’s largest airports
bne IntelliNews
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan opened a $12bn Istanbul mega-airport with ambitions of becoming the world’s largest on October 29.
The populist president hailed the completion of the flagship airport’s first phase of construction as demonstrating Turkey’s strength and
sanctions tit-for-tat following Moscow's illegal annexation of Crimea in 2014 and its support for pro-Russian separatists in East Ukraine. Earlier, Moscow imposed a food import ban on Ukraine, which is widely considered to be Moscow's retaliation to Kyiv signing the Deep
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Istanbul Airport intends to become a superhub for travel across Europe, Africa and Asia.
resilience amid forces he said were trying to sabotage the country’s economy. Unfortunately for Erdogan, his boastful rhetoric comes just six weeks after Turkey announced it was freezing new government investment projects in a fiscal
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