The US has sanctioned the head of Russia's largest social network

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge On Thursday, following Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the Biden administration imposed sweeping sanctions on Russian banks, energy and infrastructure companies, and a number of individual Russian elites. The US Department of the Treasury provided the full list in a press release, which divided sanctioned entities into two categories: "major Russian financial institutions" and "elites and families close to Putin." Among the sanctioned individuals is Vladimir...