Wendy Siegelman<p>Key Putin oligarchs still profiting from trade with Europe, despite sanctions</p><p>Companies partially owned by billionaires closely tied to Putin continue to export their products to Western markets without disruption</p><p>A loophole allowing firms to operate in EU if sanctioned individuals hold less than 50% of shares enables oligarchs like Gennady Timchenko, Alisher Usmanov, and Oleg Deripaska to reap profits</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Russianoligarchs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Russianoligarchs</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Russiansanctions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Russiansanctions</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Deripaska" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Deripaska</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Timchenko" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Timchenko</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Usmanov" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Usmanov</span></a></p><p><a href="https://theins.ru/en/corruption/277396" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">theins.ru/en/corruption/277396</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>