Berlin’s economy minister called the decision ‘urgently necessary’ to maintain the country’s energy supply Germany has taken ownership of a local branch of Russia’s state-owned energy giant Gazprom. Berlin’s energy regulator will temporarily control the company despite Moscow’s previous insistence that such a move would be illegal.

[unable to retrieve full-text content]

The global body and UEFA issued a wave of sanctions against Russian football in the wake of the Ukraine conflict World football’s governing body, FIFA, is withholding compensatory payments for Russian teams related to last year’s World Cup in Qatar due to sanctions levied against the Russian Football Union (RFU), its Secretary General Maxim Mitrofanov…