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The EU is weighing up new sanctions that would hit some €5bn in trade with Russia, including export restrictions on technologies used for military purposes.

The trip aims to boost France’s energy security, in keeping with a wider European effort to diversify away from the Russian fossil fuels on which the bloc was formerly so reliant.

French President Emmanuel Macron is making an eye-catching drive to strengthen partnerships with Central Asian states, seeking to boost Europe's influence in a strategic region where China, Russia, Turkey…

French President Emmanuel Macron is making an eye-catching drive to strengthen partnerships with Central Asian states, seeking to boost Europe's influence in

French President Emmanuel Macron is making an eye-catching drive to strengthen partnerships with Central Asian states, seeking to boost Europe's influence in a strategic region where China, Russia, Turkey…

Macron courts Central Asian strongmen in quest for influence

French President Emmanuel Macron is making efforts to strengthen partnerships with Central Asian states...

As the invasion of Ukraine drains Russia's forces, Moscow's grip on its former Soviet backyard in the Caucasus and Central Asia is loosening with unpredictable consequences, experts say.

Ukraine war saps Russian sway over Caucasus, Central Asia