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The country’s finance minister confirmed that nearly $300 billion of Russia’s forex holdings have been seized The latest sanctions imposed on Russia over its military offensive in Ukraine have frozen about half of the country’s gold and foreign exchange reserves, according to Finance Minister Anton Siluanov.

Under the current circumstances, demands for Ukraine to reclaim its 1991 borders are a call “for genocide,” Sergey Lavrov argues Ukraine’s conditions for ending the conflict with Russia, as declared in the ‘peace formula’ presented by President Vladimir Zelensky last year, are impossible to implement, and any support for it is futile, Moscow’s top diplomat…