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Western Companies Are Now Paying for Russia Sanctions
After months of discussions over whether to confiscate Russian assets frozen in the West, G-7 nations decided in mid-June to use the future proceeds of those assets to provide a $50 billion loan to Ukraine. But that G-7 decision may leave Western companies …