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Ukraine war: Russian diamonds set for ban under new EU sanctions

2023-11-15 23:56
One third of the world's diamonds come from Russia, which so far has escaped sanctions for the trade.
Ukraine war: Russian diamonds set for ban under new EU sanctions

Diamonds may be forever, but not when it comes to imports from Russia into the European Union.

Russia is the biggest producer of rough diamonds cut from hundreds of mines beneath the Siberian permafrost, where a third of the world's diamond supply comes from.

Now the European Commission has...