Given the huge demand for luxury Western goods rich Russians are sure that Western brands will themselves come rushing back once they can. "It's only a matter of time," said Andrei.

even the paper for tea bags — to cross the frontier on a journey that usually starts in Turkey and ends in Russian towns and cities where Western goods are in high demand. The war in Ukraine ...

lasers and other products with civilian and military uses headed for Russia, according to Western officials and data compiled by The Wall Street Journal. U.S. and European Union exports of ...

Despite more than two years of Western punitive measures, Russia is still getting its hands on prohibited goods, with the help of cunning businesses that go to great lengths to dodge the embargo.