内容摘要："Giving more to defence means, all else equal, bigger cuts to something else," the IFS said.

"Giving more to defence means, all else equal, bigger cuts to something else," the IFS said.

CREA says it has identified three "laundromat refineries" in Turkey and three in India processing Russian crude and selling the resulting fuel on to sanctioning countries. It says they have used €6.1bn worth of Russian crude to make products for sanctioning countries.India's petroleum ministry

as "a deceptive effort to tarnish India's image"."[These countries] know that sanctioning countries are willing to accept this. This is a loophole. It's entirely legal. Everyone's aware of it, but nobody is doing much to actually tackle it in a big way," says Vaibhav Raghunandan, an analyst at CREA.Campaigners and experts argue that Western governments have the tools and means available to stem the flow of oil and gas revenue into the Kremlin's coffers.

According to former Russian deputy energy minister Vladimir Milov, who is now a diehard opponent of Vladimir Putin, sanctions imposed on trade in Russian hydrocarbons should be better enforced - particularly the oil price cap adopted by the G7 group of nations, which Mr Milov says "He is fearful, though, that the US government shake-up launched by President Donald Trump will hamper agencies such as the US Treasury or the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), which are key for sanctions enforcement.

Another avenue is continued pressure on Russia's "

" of tankers involved in dodging the sanctions.The family of an artist known as The Secret Painter are hoping people will help solve a mystery surrounding two of his artworks.

The paintings by Eric Tucker are believed to depict China Clay Country near St Austell in Cornwall but the exact location and the people he painted are unknown.The paintings, one in oil and the other in watercolour, have been part of an

at the Connaught Brown gallery in London.Tucker, who died in 2018, left behind hundreds of his paintings at his former council house in Warrington, Cheshire.