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EU proposes ban on video game sales to Russia in new sanctions

The European Union plans to propose a phased ban on imports of aluminum from Russia as part of its next sanctions package, according to Bloomberg reports.
The new sanctions package will include penalties on aging oil-exporting tankers and restrict aluminum exports from Russia, as stated by two EU diplomats.
The EU's 16th sanctions package will not include a full ban on Russian liquefied natural gas imports, despite pressure from some member states, as reported by Politico.
Hungary and Slovakia have criticized the EU's sanctions on Russia, arguing that they harm the EU more than Russia, according to various reports.

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EU wants to ban sales of game consoles to Russia. The occupiers use them to control drones

The head of EU diplomacy, Kaja Kallas, said that the European Union is considering including a ban on the sale of PlayStation, Nintendo and Xbox game consoles in the 16th package of sanctions against Russia, because the occupiers use them to control drones, which, in addition to attacking cities and on the front, are deliberately killing civilians. The British newspaper The Financial Times (FT) reports this. The consoles are no longer sold by co…

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EU may ban video game console sales to Russia

The European Union is considering banning video game console sales to Russia so that they be used to fly drones in Ukraine.

4 months ago·United States

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EU proposes ban on video game sales to Russia in new sanctions

The European Commission included restrictions on sales of video games and joysticks to Russia in its 16th package of sanctions on Moscow, the proposal document showed.

4 months ago·United Kingdom

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E.U. reportedly plans to ban more than half a dozen more Russian media outlets

The European Union’s next sanctions against Russia will include restrictions on several popular pro-Kremlin media outlets. The planned measure will target the news agency TASS, the online publication Lenta.ru, the Russian Defense Ministry’s TV channel Zvezda, the newspaper Krasnaya Zvezda, the pro-Kremlin Crimean website NewsFront, and other propaganda media outlets, according to investigative journalists at RFE/RL’s Sistema project who obtained…

4 months ago·Riga, Latvia

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EU Observer

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New EU sanctions to strike at Russia's Tass 'news' agency

Russia's historic Tass news agency is to go offline in the EU and people who run Russia’s oil-tanker ‘shadow fleet’ will be blacklisted in future under new sanctions.

4 months ago·Brussel, Belgium

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