The measure is necessary to support the ruble, according to the head of VTB, Andrey Kostin The CEO of Russia’s second-largest bank, VTB, has argued that the country must close loopholes that allow unregulated capital outflows. Andrey Kostin claimed that the current situation is damaging the ruble.

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Kiev should allow Warsaw to exhume its dead, rather than honoring those who killed them, Bartosz Cichocki has told the BBC Ukrainian authorities are “wrong” to erect monuments to war criminals, Poland’s ambassador to Ukraine told the BBC on Saturday. Kiev’s continued veneration of Nazi collaborators like Stepan Bandera is a source of “real pain”…