Finland wants to speed up the procedure for confiscating the Helsinki Halli, a 15,500-seat indoor event centre, owned by Putin-affiliated oligarchs Gennadiy Timchenko and Roman Rotenberg, but is waiting for the final content of the new EU sanctions package.
Chinese car sales in Russia appear to have peaked as domestic production recovers after the exodus of Western automakers, data shared with Reuters showed, but recent growth in the market may stall as high import costs and interest rates begin to bite. The figures are early indicators that Russia's car market, and China's role in it, have stabilised after nearly two years of upheaval caused by sanctions placed on Moscow and Western companies' sudden exit in the wake of the invasion of Ukraine.
Russians who plan to buy property abroad are most interested in investing in Cyprus and Hungary, Russian media outlet RBC reported on Nov. 22, citing research from real estate agency NF Group.
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán threatens to block all aid from the European Union for Ukraine, as well as Ukraine's future EU accession, if the EU leaders do not agree to reconsider their whole strategy of support for Kyiv.
Canada is taking the information about the possible sale of a drone countermeasure system by the Canadian company Skycope Technologies to the Russians "very seriously", and law enforcement and intelligence agencies will conduct an investigation.