At a briefing in the White House, Steven Mnuchin, US Secretary of the Treasury said that the US Department of the Treasury will introduce new sanctions against Russia in the coming weeks.

 "We are working on Russia sanctions. I can assure you that is in the process. I will be back here [at this White House] within the next several weeks to talk about that," he said.

US Treasury Secretary also stressed that the Department is actively working with the FBI on sanctions against individual …

The Latvian Ministry of Foreign Affairs has banned 49 persons named in the Magnitsky list from entering the country, as announced by Edgars Rinkēvičs, Latvian Minister for Foreign Affairs, on his Twitter feed.

"Pursuant [to the] resolution of [the] Saeima (Parliament of Latvia), and based on Immigration law, I have banned 49 individuals from entering the territory of the Republic of Latvia, sending [a] clear signal that rule of law and human rights matter," Rinkēvičs wrote.

In early February, …

Ivan Bliznyuk, a local police officer and the son of Russian immigrants, was detained at Ministro Pistarini International Airport in Buenos Aires, Argentina after arriving from Rome with an acquaintance on February 21. He is suspected of involvement in the creation of a cocaine supply chain to Russia. This was reported by the local publication Clarin.

Thanks to his knowledge of the language, he acted as the "connecting link" between Argentine police and the Ministry of Internal Affairs of …