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over its invasion of Ukraine.Foreign companies are also barred from including buyback options on the sale of their Russian assets for two or
more years, the publication reported.Companies with buyback options already in place would be required to pay a market price and take into
requires new owners to place up to 20% of the purchased assets on the Russian stock market within a year and finish the listing within three
Timesreported in June that President Vladimir Putin had signed a confidential decree giving the Russian government priority rights to buy
Western assets at knockdown prices so they could be sold at a profit.The move was seen as another effort to complicate Western corporate
that have seized Russian assets abroad.Hundreds of mostly Western companies have either fully exited or scaled back operations in Russia
following the launch of Moscow's invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.
