Financial Times: A recent vacancy posted on a Russian recruitment site sought a project manager to build a business “from scratch” in Togo, west Africa. The employer would be A7, a Russian cryptocurrency network under western sanctions, run by a fugitive oligarch and a state defence sector bank.
The advert is the latest sign that Moscow is seeking to build an alternative payments system after its banks were cut off by the west in response to the full-scale invasion of Ukraine…