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Russia sanctions British teenager for alleging A7A5 use in funding Ukraine war
Key takeaways
- Browder, who is the son of Vladimir Putin critic Bill Browder, was sanctioned along with three other U.K. nationals and Washington Post reporter Catherine Belton.
- He described it as "a badge of honour" in a post on X on Wednesday.
- The A7A5 stablecoin was designed to bypass sanctions imposed on Russia following its invasion of Ukraine in 2022.
Alexander Browder, 17, penned a report for foreign policy and national security think tank The Henry Jackson Society, which the Russian Foreign Ministry described as spreading "defamatory speculations and false information."
Browder, who is the son of Vladimir Putin critic Bill Browder, was sanctioned along with three other U.K. nationals and Washington Post reporter Catherine Belton.
He described it as "a badge of honour" in a post on X on Wednesday.
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