<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0" xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/"><channel><title><![CDATA[Stephanie Baker - Senior Writer]]></title><description><![CDATA[Stephanie Baker - Senior Writer]]></description><link>https://www.bloomberg.com/authors/AB8Ngx5snnQ/stephanie-baker</link><image><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/feeds/static/images/bloomberg_logo_black.png</url><title>Stephanie Baker - Senior Writer</title><link>https://www.bloomberg.com/authors/AB8Ngx5snnQ/stephanie-baker</link></image><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Mon, 25 Aug 2025 13:26:56 GMT</lastBuildDate><copyright><![CDATA[Copyright 2025 BLOOMBERG L.P. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED]]></copyright><language><![CDATA[en]]></language><atom:link href="https://www.bloomberg.com/authors/AB8Ngx5snnQ/stephanie-baker.rss" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title><![CDATA[Russia’s Secret War and the Plot to Kill a German CEO]]></title><description><![CDATA[Armin Papperger runs a German defense company arming Ukraine. The efforts have brought the weapons supplier unprecedented riches, and put a target on his back.]]></description><link>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2025-08-04/why-russia-plotted-to-kill-the-rheinmetall-ceo-arming-ukraine</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2025-08-04/why-russia-plotted-to-kill-the-rheinmetall-ceo-arming-ukraine</guid><category><![CDATA[world]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Stephanie Baker]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 04 Aug 2025 21:00:27 GMT</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/iWkpwFONN8T4/v0/piHJkQ_WoLj1E/-1x-1.jpg" type="image/jpeg"><media:thumbnail url="https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/iWkpwFONN8T4/v0/piHJkQ_WoLj1E/-1x-1.jpg"/><media:description/></media:content></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Bad Ukraine-Russia Deal Is Also a Terrible Deal for Europe]]></title><description><![CDATA[As Putin and Xi strengthen ties at Russia’s Victory Day parade, Trump is squandering his leverage to secure a meaningful peace deal.]]></description><link>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-05-09/a-bad-ukraine-russia-deal-is-also-a-terrible-deal-for-europe</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-05-09/a-bad-ukraine-russia-deal-is-also-a-terrible-deal-for-europe</guid><category><![CDATA[world]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Stephanie Baker]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2025 09:00:37 GMT</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/itTF9Jh4ac_Y/v0/piHJkQ_WoLj1E/-1x-1.jpg" type="image/jpeg"><media:thumbnail url="https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/itTF9Jh4ac_Y/v0/piHJkQ_WoLj1E/-1x-1.jpg"/><media:description/></media:content></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trump Administration Denies Parole to Harvard Scientist From Russia, Citing Threat to US Security]]></title><link>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-04-03/russian-harvard-scientist-denied-parole-by-trump-administration-on-security-risk</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-04-03/russian-harvard-scientist-denied-parole-by-trump-administration-on-security-risk</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Stephanie Baker]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 03 Apr 2025 15:17:34 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Punishing Putin Is More Important Than Ever]]></title><description><![CDATA[Whoever wins the White House, it’s critical to step up the pressure on the Russian economy.]]></description><link>https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2024-10-21/ukraine-war-punishing-putin-is-more-important-than-ever</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2024-10-21/ukraine-war-punishing-putin-is-more-important-than-ever</guid><category><![CDATA[world]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Stephanie Baker]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 21 Oct 2024 04:00:29 GMT</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/ivU.64U0oyxI/v1/piHJkQ_WoLj1E/-1x-1.jpg" type="image/jpeg"><media:thumbnail url="https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/ivU.64U0oyxI/v1/piHJkQ_WoLj1E/-1x-1.jpg"/><media:description>KHARKIV, UKRAINE - JUNE 30: The aftermath of the destruction caused by a missile strike One warehouse worker is killed and dozens injured in missile strike on June 30, 2024 in Kharkiv, Ukraine. An infant was among those injured as the result of a Russian strike hitting a civilian facility in Kharkiv. (Photo by Nikoletta Stoyanova/Getty Images)</media:description></media:content></item><item><title><![CDATA[US Chips Guided Russian Missile That Killed 6-Year-Old Girl]]></title><description><![CDATA[The weapons killing Ukrainian civilians are full of tech made by American companies.]]></description><link>https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2024-russian-missiles-us-tech-ukraine/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2024-russian-missiles-us-tech-ukraine/</guid><category><![CDATA[world]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Stephanie Baker]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 02 Oct 2024 21:00:27 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘They Have Stolen Our Business’: When You Leave Russia, Putin Sets the Terms]]></title><description><![CDATA[Western companies that exited Russia immediately after the invasion of Ukraine suffered big losses. Two years later, it’s clear that was as good as it got. An excerpt from the new book Punishing Putin.]]></description><link>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2024-09-05/book-excerpt-punishing-putin-inside-the-global-war-to-bring-down-russia</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2024-09-05/book-excerpt-punishing-putin-inside-the-global-war-to-bring-down-russia</guid><category><![CDATA[world]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Stephanie Baker]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 05 Sep 2024 04:01:31 GMT</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/ifLP2zjKjthw/v3/piHJkQ_WoLj1E/-1x-1.jpg" type="image/jpeg"><media:thumbnail url="https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/ifLP2zjKjthw/v3/piHJkQ_WoLj1E/-1x-1.jpg"/><media:description>The Golden Arches come down from a former McDonald’s in the Russian town of Kingisepp in June 2022.</media:description></media:content></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ukraine Sees Russia Land-Grab Attempt Before More Weapons Arrive]]></title><link>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-05-29/ukraine-sees-russia-land-grab-attempt-before-more-weapons-arrive</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-05-29/ukraine-sees-russia-land-grab-attempt-before-more-weapons-arrive</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Daryna Krasnolutska]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 29 May 2024 11:00:59 GMT</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/iDuoDmxZhgyA/v0/piHJkQ_WoLj1E/-1x-1.jpg" type="image/jpeg"><media:thumbnail url="https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/iDuoDmxZhgyA/v0/piHJkQ_WoLj1E/-1x-1.jpg"/><media:description>A Ukrainian heavy mortar fires toward Russian positions in Donetsk region. Photographer: Iryna Rybakova/AP Photo</media:description></media:content></item><item><title><![CDATA[Abramovich Slams Lithuania Over Calls to Review Citizenship Law]]></title><link>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-12-07/abramovich-slams-lithuania-over-calls-to-review-citizenship-law</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-12-07/abramovich-slams-lithuania-over-calls-to-review-citizenship-law</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Milda Seputyte]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 07 Dec 2023 17:53:07 GMT</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/iqn_4C6IedPM/v1/piHJkQ_WoLj1E/-1x-1.jpg" type="image/jpeg"><media:thumbnail url="https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/iqn_4C6IedPM/v1/piHJkQ_WoLj1E/-1x-1.jpg"/><media:description>Roman Abramovich</media:description></media:content></item><item><title><![CDATA[Russian Billionaire Says Cops Used ‘Kompromat’ to Raid London Mansion]]></title><link>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-07-27/billionaire-mikhail-fridman-says-cops-used-kompromat-to-raid-london-mansion</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-07-27/billionaire-mikhail-fridman-says-cops-used-kompromat-to-raid-london-mansion</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Stephanie Baker]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 27 Jul 2023 10:38:53 GMT</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/ixxBCy3UF2Z0/v1/piHJkQ_WoLj1E/-1x-1.jpg" type="image/jpeg"><media:thumbnail url="https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/ixxBCy3UF2Z0/v1/piHJkQ_WoLj1E/-1x-1.jpg"/><media:description>An entrance to the Athlone House mansion, frozen by sanctions on Russian billionaire Mikhail Fridman, in the Highgate district of London.</media:description></media:content></item><item><title><![CDATA[Police Raid Leaves Russian Billionaire’s Domestic Staff in Sanctions Limbo]]></title><description><![CDATA[The UK’s sanctions against billionaire Mikhail Fridman have led to some unintended consequences.]]></description><link>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-07-06/russian-oligarch-mikhail-fridman-police-raid-consequences-for-domestic-staff</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-07-06/russian-oligarch-mikhail-fridman-police-raid-consequences-for-domestic-staff</guid><category><![CDATA[world]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Stephanie Baker]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 06 Jul 2023 04:00:05 GMT</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/isvrBSRqQicU/v1/piHJkQ_WoLj1E/-1x-1.jpg" type="image/jpeg"><media:thumbnail url="https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/isvrBSRqQicU/v1/piHJkQ_WoLj1E/-1x-1.jpg"/><media:description>Mikhail Fridman, centre.</media:description></media:content></item><item><title><![CDATA[What Wagner’s Mutiny Means for Its Sprawling Business Empire]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Russian mercenary group’s extensive commercial network in the Central African Republic is set to come under pressure.]]></description><link>https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2023-wagner-presence-in-central-african-republic/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2023-wagner-presence-in-central-african-republic/</guid><category><![CDATA[world]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Simon Marks]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 27 Jun 2023 15:00:06 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Eric Schmidt Buys Abandoned Alfa Nero Superyacht for $67.6 Million]]></title><link>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-06-16/eric-schmidt-buys-ditched-alfa-nero-superyacht-for-67-6-million</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-06-16/eric-schmidt-buys-ditched-alfa-nero-superyacht-for-67-6-million</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Stephanie Baker]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 16 Jun 2023 15:35:15 GMT</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/i_I2VccHVHcA/v1/piHJkQ_WoLj1E/-1x-1.jpg" type="image/jpeg"><media:thumbnail url="https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/i_I2VccHVHcA/v1/piHJkQ_WoLj1E/-1x-1.jpg"/><media:description>The superyacht Alfa Nero docked in Falmouth Harbour in Saint Paul Parish, Antigua.</media:description></media:content></item><item><title><![CDATA[Abandoned Russian Superyacht to Be Auctioned After Sanctions Lifted]]></title><link>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-06-01/abandoned-russian-yacht-to-be-auctioned-after-sanction-delisting</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-06-01/abandoned-russian-yacht-to-be-auctioned-after-sanction-delisting</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Stephanie Baker]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 01 Jun 2023 13:45:00 GMT</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/iHhIK6_7yaf0/v1/piHJkQ_WoLj1E/-1x-1.jpg" type="image/jpeg"><media:thumbnail url="https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/iHhIK6_7yaf0/v1/piHJkQ_WoLj1E/-1x-1.jpg"/><media:description>The superyacht Alfa Nero docked in Falmouth Harbour in Antigua, on April 20.</media:description></media:content></item><item><title><![CDATA[The $120 Million Ghost Ship Antigua Is Desperate to Unload]]></title><description><![CDATA[Racking up over $100,000 a month in bills, the superyacht Alfa Nero has been docked in Antigua for more than a year. The government desperately wants to sell it.]]></description><link>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-05-17/ditched-superyacht-costs-112-000-a-month-while-crew-play-call-of-duty</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-05-17/ditched-superyacht-costs-112-000-a-month-while-crew-play-call-of-duty</guid><category><![CDATA[world]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Anna J Kaiser]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 17 May 2023 09:00:15 GMT</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/iOEGP83zcnK8/v1/piHJkQ_WoLj1E/-1x-1.jpg" type="image/jpeg"><media:thumbnail url="https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/iOEGP83zcnK8/v1/piHJkQ_WoLj1E/-1x-1.jpg"/><media:description>The superyacht Alfa Nero docked in Antigua on April 19.</media:description></media:content></item><item><title><![CDATA[Russian Tycoon Sues to Free £38 Million Superyacht From UK’s Clutches]]></title><link>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-05-11/russian-tycoon-sergei-naumenko-sues-to-free-superyacht-phi-from-uk-s-clutches</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-05-11/russian-tycoon-sergei-naumenko-sues-to-free-superyacht-phi-from-uk-s-clutches</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Jonathan Browning]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 11 May 2023 10:17:04 GMT</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/iGWM2wfUzPE8/v1/piHJkQ_WoLj1E/-1x-1.jpg" type="image/jpeg"><media:thumbnail url="https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/iGWM2wfUzPE8/v1/piHJkQ_WoLj1E/-1x-1.jpg"/><media:description>The PHI superyacht, detained by a unit of Britain&apos;s National Crime Agency (NCA), is pictured in a dock in the Canary Wharf financial and business district of east London, on March 30, 2022. - Britain on Tuesday detained a Russian-owned, $50-million superyacht boasting a fresh-water swimming pool, in what it called a &quot;warning&quot; to Moscow of the consequences for invading Ukraine. The impounding of Phi, the first superyacht ever to be held in British waters, comes after the UK sanctioned hundreds of Russian individuals and entities in recent weeks over the Kremlin&apos;s war. (Photo by JUSTIN TALLIS / AFP) (Photo by JUSTIN TALLIS/AFP via Getty Images)</media:description></media:content></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ukraine Aid From Chelsea Sale Delayed as Approval Process Drags]]></title><link>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-04-07/ukraine-aid-from-chelsea-sale-delayed-as-approval-process-drags</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-04-07/ukraine-aid-from-chelsea-sale-delayed-as-approval-process-drags</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Alberto Nardelli]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 07 Apr 2023 03:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[UK Drops Part of Probe Into Sanctioned Russian Billionaire Fridman]]></title><link>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-04-04/uk-drops-part-of-probe-into-sanctioned-russian-billionaire-mikhail-fridman</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-04-04/uk-drops-part-of-probe-into-sanctioned-russian-billionaire-mikhail-fridman</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Stephanie Baker]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 04 Apr 2023 14:03:14 GMT</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/i6Z88uOV0wfw/v1/piHJkQ_WoLj1E/-1x-1.jpg" type="image/jpeg"><media:thumbnail url="https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/i6Z88uOV0wfw/v1/piHJkQ_WoLj1E/-1x-1.jpg"/><media:description>Mikhail Fridman, billionaire and co-founder of LetterOne Holdings SA, left, arrives for a hearing at the Audiencia Nacional court in Madrid, Spain, on Monday, Oct. 21, 2019. The prosecutor wants the magistrate to look at allegations that Fridman helped to undermine Grupo Zed&apos;s business and then acquire it at a knockdown price, El Pais reported, citing documents from the prosecutor�s office.</media:description></media:content></item><item><title><![CDATA[Top Navalny Aide Apologizes After Supporting Sanctioned Tycoon]]></title><link>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-03-09/top-navalny-aide-apologizes-after-supporting-sanctioned-tycoon</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-03-09/top-navalny-aide-apologizes-after-supporting-sanctioned-tycoon</guid><pubDate>Thu, 09 Mar 2023 13:34:37 GMT</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/ivBa9Xx53zyg/v0/piHJkQ_WoLj1E/-1x-1.jpg" type="image/jpeg"><media:thumbnail url="https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/ivBa9Xx53zyg/v0/piHJkQ_WoLj1E/-1x-1.jpg"/><media:description>Leonid Volkov Photographer: Philip Davali/AFP/Getty Images</media:description></media:content></item><item><title><![CDATA[Inside Big Plastic’s Faltering $1.5 Billion Global Cleanup Effort]]></title><description><![CDATA[Almost four years since the Alliance to End Plastic Waste launched, its on-the-ground recycling is negligible compared to the new plastic produced by its core members, petrochemical companies.]]></description><link>https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2022-exxon-mobil-plastic-waste-cleanup-greenwashing/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2022-exxon-mobil-plastic-waste-cleanup-greenwashing/</guid><category><![CDATA[world]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Stephanie Baker]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2022 14:13:43 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[US Is Weighing a Terrorism Label for Russia’s Wagner Group Mercenaries]]></title><link>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-11-29/russia-s-wagner-group-mercenaries-may-be-labeled-terrorists-by-the-us</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-11-29/russia-s-wagner-group-mercenaries-may-be-labeled-terrorists-by-the-us</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Flatley]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2022 18:30:24 GMT</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/iZxACVOujpA0/v0/piHJkQ_WoLj1E/-1x-1.jpg" type="image/jpeg"><media:thumbnail url="https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/iZxACVOujpA0/v0/piHJkQ_WoLj1E/-1x-1.jpg"/><media:description>Yevgeny Prigozhin </media:description></media:content></item></channel></rss>