EU makes U-turn on sanctioning world's largest diamond miner reports
Russia's Alrosa was reportedly excluded from the new sanction list after Belgium blocked an EU embargo
Alrosa, the Russian state-run diamond miner, has been excluded from the EU's next round of sanctions, the EUobserver reported on Wednesday, citing European Commission papers.
The world's largest diamond mining operation by volume was initially listed in the draft proposal of the bloc's eig