On April 6, 2020, the U.S. State Department designated the Russian Imperial Movement (RIM) as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist (SDGT) entity pursuant to Executive Order 13224. At the same time, also pursuant to Executive Order (E.O.) 13224, the State Department designated three of the group’s leaders, Stanislav Anataolyevich Vorobyev, …

A decision by the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) and non-OPEC producers like Russia to temporarily end a price war and cut production amounts to a time-out rather than an end to what is likely to erupt at some point in the future as a tripartite war.

The coronavirus pandemic sweeping the world will turn global economic growth “sharply negative” in 2020, triggering the worst fallout since the 1930s Great Depression, with only a partial recovery seen in 2021, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva said.