An arbitration court in St. Petersburg ruled to freeze the assets of Linde Russia U.K. Limited, a subsidiary of German-based Linde chemical company, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) reported on Aug. 14, citing Russian court documents. The decision came after Ruskhimalyans, a sanctionedsubsidiary of Russia’s state-owned Gazprom, filed a lawsuit against Linde in March, demanding to recover more than 746 million euros ($822 million) and 30.71 billion rubles ($347 million) in debt. In its lawsuit, the Russian company claimed that it was impossible to enforce the upcoming court order at the…