Wednesday, June 17

Economy

Shares in Raiffeisen Bank International (RBI) rallied around 12% on Wednesday shortly after the banking group announced plans for its Russian unit to purchase a stake in Austrian construction giant, Strabag.

Vladimir Smerkis, the former chief executive of Binance in the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), has cautioned that the United States will persist in applying sanctions pressure on Russian cryptocurrency users.

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