In this week's newsletter, RFE/RL Europe Editor Rikard Jozwiak looks at two issues: the EU’s next sanctions package on Russia ...

The economic penalties target the leaders of a bloody crackdown and companies that support Tehran’s illicit oil trade.

A Venezuelan economist weighs in on the role of Trump, oil and the sidelining of the Nobel Prize-winning opposition leader ...

The biggest harbinger that things were about to fall apart in Iran didn’t come from the thwarted anger of the country’s ...

Finland and Sweden have proposed new, tougher economic sanctions against Russia, according to Finnish Foreign Affairs ...

Explore how socialist market economies operate in China, Cuba, and North Korea, balancing state control and market elements ...

The Venezuela Operation was more focused on controlling energy and disciplining a leftist government than the welfare of the ...

"The Iranian economy is on the ropes," Bessent told the Economic Club of Minnesota, underscoring President Donald Trump's warning to Tehran to avoid harming protesters.

Economic sanctions are widely viewed by academics and policymakers as a better alternative to military interventions to ...

President Donald Trump’s maximum pressure sanctions on Iran, imposed during his first administration, have battered Iran’s economy and helped intensify the current protest movement that began with ...

In a move to circumvent Western financial sanctions, Iran is reportedly offering to sell advanced weapons systems to foreign governments in exchange for cryptocurrency. Iran To Sell Missiles For ...

Today the Council renewed the EU restrictive measures in view of the Russian Federation’s continuing actions destabilising the situation in Ukraine for a further 6 months, until 31 July 2026. These ...