Financial transactions are a matter for the companies involved and not for the government, presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov has said The issue of compliance with US sanctions by Chinese banks falls outside the purview of the Kremlin, presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters on Tuesday.

The US has approved imposing secondary sanctions on institutions found aiding Moscow Chinese state-owned banks are tightening controls on servicing Russian clients after the US approved secondary sanctions on financial institutions found aiding Russia’s military-industrial complex, Bloomberg reported on Tuesday, citing people familiar with the matter.

The country’s population is increasingly sustained by immigrants and the elderly, government statistics show Births in France fell to their lowest number last year since the end of the Second World War, the country’s national statistics office has revealed. As in much of Europe, fertility rates in France are declining, while mass immigration keeps population…