Yandex CEO in Russia and HR director of the company Elena Bunina left Russia, The Bell found out. She announced this at an internal corporate forum. “I will not return: I cannot work in a country that is at war with its neighbors,” the head of the Russian company wrote (the message is available to The Bell). According to Bunina, she has not been to Russia since the end of February, and now she works in the Israeli office of Yandex.

Despite painful financial and economic sanctions, Russia will receive almost $321 billion from oil and gas exports in 2022, a third more than in 2021, Bloomberg . reports But this is only possible if there is no embargo on energy sales. “The single biggest driver of Russia's current account surplus remains strong,” the Institute for International Finance (IIF) said in a report.

New sanctions The U.S. and U.K. imposed new sanctions Tuesday, three days after evidence emerged of the summary execution of civilians by Russian troops in Bucha. The U.S. focused on the financial sector as it has already imposed an embargo on Russian energy products. The new measures include further sanctions on state-owned Sberbank and leading private lender Alfa Bank. On paper, this means asset seizures and a ban on any transaction with these banks involving U.S. citizens or organizations.

Pause negotiations, sanctions for a long time and the fate of oil and gas exports The Russian-Ukrainian negotiations in Istanbul at the beginning of the week gave rise to cautious optimism, but since then no breakthrough has occurred, and the prospects for the ceasefire have remained vague.