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The Financial Times reported that Ireland and the European External Action Service have proposed a plan to unfreeze the assets of Russian-Uzbek billionaire Alisher Usmanov and lift his EU travel ban, while keeping him formally on the bloc's sanctions list. European diplomats described the proposal as a compromise approach to individual sanctions enforcement. The move comes as the EU continues to grapple with disputes over its broader Russia sanctions regime, including a separate failure to agree on renewing personal sanctions against Vladimir Putin and Sergei Lavrov, reflecting divisions among member states over how to handle sanctioned Russian-linked individuals and assets.