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A comprehensive overview of UN sanctions
30 Jun 2025 09:21 GMT
… have diverged.[11]
Since Russia invaded Ukraine in November 2022 … main forum for debating the Russia-Ukraine war, its resolutions … national level was the UN Oil-For-Food inquiry, which named companies … measures on the Russian regime, given Russia’s position as …
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Gaddafi and Saddam: Targeted for Threatening US Dollar Hegemony?
23 Jun 2025 18:52 GMT
… billion in its UN-controlled oil-for-food account, all denominated in euros … global powers like China and Russia increasingly push for de-dollarization …
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Energy company touts oil-for-food scheme as Syrian aid route tightens
11 Jul 2022 21:19 GMT
… grain supplies because of Russia’s ongoing invasion of … States, the United Kingdom, Russia, Turkey and other regional actors … officials said.
Iraq’s oil-for-food program that was meant to … to the Kremlin or any Russian government authority,” Bell said. …
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Exclusive-Venezuela swapped PDVSA oil for food, then punished the dealmakers
24 Aug 2021 10:16 GMT
By Luc Cohen and Marianna Parraga CARACAS (Reuters) - With U.S. sanctions spooking key oil buyers and depriving its government of cash, Venezuela last year inked a deal with a little-known local company to swap crude for food, Reuters has learned. That …
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How Empire uses aid as a weapon of war
10 Jun 2025 15:44 GMT
… of Africa dominated by Stalinist Russia.
The US government saw aid … , 1990s
In the 1990s the Oil-for-Food Programme was spearheaded by the … dependent on rations from the Oil-for-Food Programme.
About £50 billion worth …
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Murtaza Lakhani: The trading tycoon steering Russia’s global oil business
14 Oct 2023 13:49 GMT
… a system known as the oil-for-food program, administered by the United … ’s appointment as Rosneft CEO in 2012, the Russian oil boss got … , Lebanese traders and Russian lawyers, who’ve helped Rosneft forge an alternative …
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The Trading Tycoon Steering Russia’s Global Oil Business
14 Oct 2023 11:50 GMT
… a system known as the oil-for-food program, administered by the United … ’s appointment as Rosneft CEO in 2012, the Russian oil boss got … , Lebanese traders and Russian lawyers, who’ve helped Rosneft forge an alternative …
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US Sanctions Shipping Companies, Torpedoes Venezuela Oil-for-Food Deal
03 Jun 2020 04:40 GMT
… based in Mexico, engaged in oil-for-food swap deals with the Venezuelan … sanctions against subsidiaries of Russian energy giant Rosneft, prompting the firm to … its Venezuela assets to a Russian state-owned holding company.
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Russian Billionaire Says Cops Used ‘Kompromat’ to Raid London Mansion
27 Jul 2023 13:43 GMT
(Bloomberg) -- Russian billionaire Mikhail Fridman claimed … during its oil-for-food program in Iraq, funded one of Russia’s … of Alfa Group, which includes Russia’s largest private bank. … to state-controlled oil giant Rosneft, pocketing $14 billion.
The …
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UN Chief vs Russia: A Second Battlefront in the Ukraine War
27 Jul 2023 05:49 GMT
… Guterres “strongly condemned the Russian missile attack on Odesa … a losing battle against Russian President Vladimir Putin? Are … correctly, working to delegitimize Russia, and rightly so. There … the implementation of the “Oil-for-Food” program which was aimed …