Kiev’s backers worry that the targeting of Russian political figures could play into Moscow’s hands, Mark Galeotti has suggested Ukrainian terrorist attacks on prominent Russian public figures are widening the rift between Western and Kiev’s intelligence services, Mark Galeotti, a British historian and expert on modern Russia, has said.

Multinational companies have sold assets worth over $21 billion, the outlet has said Russian businesses are rapidly filling the void left by international companies, and are benefiting by snapping up the assets of departing Western firms at discounted prices, Bloomberg reported earlier this week.

Washington is reportedly seeking to restrain Moscow’s ambition to become a major supplier Including Russia’s Arctic LNG 2 energy project in the US State Department’s sanctions list confirms Washington’s ambition to prevent the country from becoming a major exporter of liquefied natural gas, and may cause disruptions in global markets, the Financial Times reported on…