Hungary demanded that the EU lift sanctions against three Russian oligarchs
Hungary demanded that three Russian businessmen, Alisher Usmanov, Pyotr Aven and Viktor Rashnikov, be removed from the EU sanctions list, media reported. This could become an obstacle to the extension of some of the sanctions against Russia, which expire on September 15. The extension should have been a technicality, as it has always been before, but Hungary's position complicates matters.