The ongoing Russia-Ukraine war has seen a wave of sanctions being imposed on Russia in the last couple of years by the EU, UK and the US as well as a number of other international players. However, despite sanctions becoming more numerous and stringent, Russia has continued to find ways to maintain trade with Europe. The Brookings Institute has used the International Monetary Fund (IMF)’s direction of trade data to map out the last few years’ exports being made by several countries to central Asian countries, which are suspected of being transshipments to Russia. For this mapping, the Brooking…