Pro-Kremlin media write that he is suspected of financing extremism In Yekaterinburg, security forces came to search the house of Mikhail Volkov, the father of opposition leader and former director of the Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK) Leonid Volkov. Kremlin-controlled media write that he was detained on suspicion of financing FBK, which Russian authorities consider an extremist organization. Leonid Volkov, however, does not confirm this information.

The White House said that sanctions imposed on Russia already exclude any “meaningful trade” with it US President Donald Trump announced the introduction of tariffs on imports of goods from 185 countries. The only countries not included in the list are Russia, Belarus, Cuba and the DPRK. As the White House explained , US sanctions imposed on Russia are already preventing any “meaningful trade” with it.

This is the first visit by a Russian high-ranking official to the US capital since the start of the war. The head of the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) and Vladimir Putin's special envoy Kirill Dmitriev flew to Washington to meet with Donald Trump's special envoy for the Middle East Steve Witkoff. This is the first visit by a high-ranking Russian official to the US capital since the start of Russia's full-scale war against Ukraine.