The European Union’s highest court has removed two Russian oligarchs from the EU sanctions list. The General Court of the European Union said there wasn’t sufficient evidence that billionaires Mikhail Fridman and Petr Aven supported Russian President Vladimir Putin’s war against Ukraine. Carolyn Beeler talks about the significance of this ruling with Maximilian Hess, a fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute.
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