Bjarke Smith-Meyer, Koen Verhelst    Twentieth round of sanctions finally enters force after Hungary and Slovakia drop their veto.

Graham Lanktree    Britain’s top diplomat will host foreign ministers from the five Central Asian countries in London on Thursday.

Koen Verhelst, Gabriel Gavin, Eliza Gkritsi, Camille Gijs, Antonia Zimmermann    Firms from the UAE, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan feature on a list of entities to be blacklisted by Brussels.

Izabella Kaminska    A new U.S. law threatens to cement the dominance of a shape-shifting dollar over the euro and every other currency.

Koen Verhelst    Vietnam and Malaysia are the next destinations on EU envoy David O’Sullivan’s mission to stop Russia from beating EU sanctions.

Agathe Demarais    The fact Moscow is so keen to discredit export controls may well be a clue that the measures aren’t ineffective.

Gabriel Gavin    Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan accuses the Moscow-led CSTO of failing to honor its obligations.

Gabriel Gavin    The controversial legislation echoes rules used by Russia, Hungary and Kyrgyzstan, legal experts warn.

Denis Leven    After deadly Moscow terror attack, authorities have targeted vulnerable scapegoats.

Inge Brees, Harriet Mackaill-Hill    The green transition must be sensitive to prevent the emergence of new disputes.

Gabriel Gavin    More Western interest helps ’strengthen the agency of Central Asian countries like Kazakhstan in dealing with all other partners in the world,’...

Gabriel Gavin    Countries like Armenia and Kazakhstan have seen trade with Russia soar. Now they’re determined not to be hit by EU restrictions.

Sergey Panov, Sarah Anne Aarup, Douglas Busvine    A POLITICO investigation finds that Russian companies have declared hundreds of thousands of rounds obtained from Western suppliers.

Gabriel Gavin    After a year of setbacks in Ukraine, Russia’s military arsenal looked distinctly depleted.

Nicolas Camut    No hits were made, with no casualties,’ head of Kyiv military administration says.

Jacopo Barigazzi, Barbara Moens, Leonie Kijewski    Third countries that help Russians get banned goods could be hit with sanctions, under plans being drafted by the European Commission.

Gabriel Gavin, Sarah Anne Aarup    Pressure is growing on the EU to prevent countries from helping Russia circumvent sanctions.

Lili Bayer    Zoltán Varga, one of Hungary’s last independent media moguls, tells POLITICO Viktor Orbán has taken his tactics to a ’new level.’

Gabriel Gavin    A summit of former Soviet states was supposed to project Moscow’s power. Instead, it showed the Kremlin’s regional influence is crumbling.

Paul Taylor    Central Asia sees danger and opportunity in Putin’s flailing assault on Ukraine.

Gabriel Gavin    The Kremlin wants to return to the age when Russia dominated its neighbors across Eurasia. Instead, it’s driving them away.

Gian Volpicelli    Border clashes between the two countries have left 81 dead.

Stuart Lau, Saim Saeed    It’s the second setback for Moscow, a day after Putin admitted China’s Xi has ’questions’ over his Ukraine war.

Phelim Kine    Saudi’s Chinese flirtation reflects a leverage bid with Biden administration.

Phelim Kine    A soured US-Saudi relationship has given Beijing a diplomatic windfall. Can the president claw it back?

Sarah Anne Aarup, Cristina Gallardo    It’s only a matter of time before Russia starts pulling tricks on ships at sea and sending goods via friendly countries to avoid and evade sanctions.

Victor Jack    Comments ease off earlier Russian rhetoric about ’far-reaching consequences.’

Eugene Rumer    The West should support those running from persecution in Russia.

David M. Herszenhorn    Josep Borrell announces restrictions on transit from six countries to thwart ’trafficking.’

Andrew Desiderio, Lara Seligman    In a classified hearing with senators, top generals detailed negotiations for over the horizon staging locations to strike al Qaeda.

POLITICO Studio