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Sanctioning Roman Abramovich will change football forever

10 March 2022

11:27 PM

10 March 2022

11:27 PM

With refugees fleeing Ukraine, shells raining down on civilians, and threats of chemical weapons being used on the battlefields of Ukraine, it was surely only a matter of time. Today the British government finally added Roman Abramovich to the list of sanctioned Russian oligarchs, freezing his assets, and making sure that he could not profit from any sales.

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