#Sanctions Circumvention

Russia has imported nearly €1 billion ($1.2 billion) in Airbus and Boeing aircraft spare parts, exposing gaps in sweeping Western sanctions aimed at grounding Moscow’s aviation sector.

A stablecoin pegged to the Russian ruble has quietly become one of Moscow’s most powerful tools for evading Western sanctions—channeling more than $9.3 billion through a Kyrgyz-based crypto exchange in just four months.

Russia is navigating one of the most turbulent chapters “in the history of humanity,” according to Sergei Chemezov, head of the state-run defense and industrial conglomerate Rostec, as the country struggles under the weight of war, sanctions, and economic isolation.

Russia has begun fielding a newly upgraded version of its Geran-2 suicide drone—based on the Iranian Shahed-136 design—featuring artificial intelligence and a range of advanced electronic components.

A historic $215.9 million penalty on GVA Capital, a San Francisco-based venture capital firm specializing in AI, exposes how Russian oligarch Suleiman Kerimov’s wealth slipped through the cracks of US sanctions. Despite being blacklisted in 2018, his investments, funneled through offshore networks, continued to grow—until the US stepped in.