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Dutch prime minister Mark Rutte greets press at the EU summit in Brussels on Thursday (Photo: consilium.europa.eu)

Russian fertiliser kings to get EU sanctions relief

Russia's fertiliser and chemicals barons will partly get off the hook on EU sanctions after a last-minute deal in Brussels on Thursday (15 December).

Fertiliser magnates Andrey Melnichenko and his wife Aleksandra, fertiliser tycoons Andrey Guryev and Moshe Kantor, chemicals mogul Dmitry Mazepin, and farming billionaire Vadim Moshkovich are all under existing EU asset-freezes and visa-bans for supporting Russia's war effort.

Kantor is also the former head of the European Jewish C...

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Andrew Rettman is EUobserver's Foreign Affairs Editor. He has been writing about foreign and security affairs for EUobserver since 2005. He is Polish but grew up in the UK. He has also written for The Guardian, The Telegraph, and The Times of London.

Dutch prime minister Mark Rutte greets press at the EU summit in Brussels on Thursday (Photo: consilium.europa.eu)

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Andrew Rettman is EUobserver's Foreign Affairs Editor. He has been writing about foreign and security affairs for EUobserver since 2005. He is Polish but grew up in the UK. He has also written for The Guardian, The Telegraph, and The Times of London.

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