️🇪🇺🇷🇺 Reuters: EU envoys have agreed to lift sanctions on Russian businessmen Alisher Usmanov and Mikhail Friedman, as long as a member state does not object in the coming hours, as part of a broader package to renew sanctions on thousands of other Russian people and entities for three years.

️🇪🇺🇷🇺 Reuters: EU envoys have agreed to lift sanctions on Russian businessmen Alisher Usmanov and Mikhail Friedman, as long as a member state does not object in the coming hours, as part of a broader package to renew sanctions on thousands of other Russian people and entities for three years.

France, under what it said was pressure from Azerbaijan to detain French nationals, pushed for Usmanov's delisting, while Luxembourg demanded the same for Friedman, who is separately seeking $16 billion from the country in a sanctions-related arbitration case.