The United States dished out another wave of sanctions against Russians deemed to be facilitators of the regime in Moscow, in an effort to disrupt Russia’s ongoing military campaign against Ukraine, the U.S. Department of the Treasury reported on Friday.

Japan’s state-backed tobacco company announced on Thursday that it would suspend planned investments in Russia, but failed to promise to shut down factories despite criticism that continuing operations would pump cash into a government that has come under heavy sanctions for its invasion of Ukraine.

New sanctions and restrictive measures have been taken concerning Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, including sanctions against 160 individuals, according to a press release from the European Union (EU).

As Russia’s invasion of Ukraine enters its second week, cybercriminals have already found ways to exploit the crisis.

The Russian Ministry of Justice declared Saturday that the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) and its Latvia-based partner Important Stories (Важные истории) or iStories, were designated as “undesirable organizations” which requires them to close operations in the country.

Moscow on Friday blocked Facebook and Twitter and cracked down even harder on journalists and media outlets whose reports on the Ukrainian war conflict with the Russian government’s narrative.

Over 120 environmental rights groups have called for a ban on Russian and Belarussian timber in response to Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine.

The United States announced on Thursday further sanctions against several Russian oligarchs as well as their family members in order to hinder their ability to direct their wealth and resources towards financing Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

France confiscated on Thursday the superyacht of former Russian politician and current CEO of Russia’s state-owned oil enterprise Rosneft Igor Sechin, following a wave of EU sanctions against Russian officials and oligarchs.

The day Russia invaded Ukraine, Russian state-owned VTB Bank, which got slapped by the U.S. with sanctions the same day, transferred its stake in Cyprus’ RCB Bank to the two remaining shareholders, both of which are companies registered in Cyprus.

The EU added a cellist and one of Vladimir Putin’s best friends to its list of officials and military figures who have been banned from traveling to the Union and whose assets there have been frozen.

Credit Suisse has asked its investors and business partners to destroy documents about the yachts and private jets of its wealthiest clients in an attempt to cover up the fact that the bank had granted loans to oligarchs that were later sanctioned, the Financial Times reported on Wednesday.

The United Kingdom acted together with the United States, European Union, Japan and Canada to cut Russia’s Central Bank off from the international market in response to the Kremlin-led aggressive invasion against Ukraine.

A Russian investigative journalist has fled the country after being threatened and labeled a terrorist by Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov, Hetq reported.

A Russian lawmaker from Chechnya on Tuesday vowed to decapitate the family of a human rights lawyer, whose mother has already been abducted by masked men from her home in Russia two weeks ago.

The European Union adopted on Monday sanctions against a group of Russian private military contractors, accusing them of human rights abuses in Libya, Syria, Ukraine and Africa.

A former deputy chief of staff for Russian leader Vladimir Putin, as well as a wealthy Russian businessman with reputed organized crime ties, were secretly involved in the illegal leasing of a lagoon for tourist developments in the Maldives, newly leaked documents show.

In 2009, a man known as “Putin’s masseur” bought a luxury villa on a Croatian island. The Pandora Papers show that behind the scenes a former Russian energy minister was playing a key role.

Since The Pandora Papers were unveiled less than 10 days ago, their findings have become the subject of European Commission media briefings, state leaders’ press conferences and government statements, while the world watches on to see what authorities will actually do.

The stepdaughter of Sergei Chemezov, the head of the giant state-owned military and defense conglomerate Rostec, is the beneficiary of a group of offshore companies with assets worth hundreds of millions of dollars, a superyacht, and businesses in European countries.