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After a period of relative silence, reports are again surfacing tying Dmytro Rukin to suspicious financial operations.

European Union lawmakers are on track to give a green light -- with conditions -- Thursday to the bloc’s tariff deal with US President Donald Trump, which Europe hopes to salvage while also racing to diversify its trade ties around the globe.

The United Nations General Assembly has voted to recognize the enslavement of Africans during the transatlantic slave trade as "the gravest crime against humanity," a move advocates hope will pave the way for healing and justice.

Pressure is mounting on the EU to tighten sanctions after an OCCRP investigation found that alumina from a major Irish refinery flowed to Russian smelters whose aluminum reached sanctioned arms manufacturers.

Two tankers transporting Russian petroleum products are en route to Cuba, with one nearing the area of a U.S. naval blockade in the Caribbean.

The knock-on effects of the conflict now whipping through the Middle East are awakening ghosts of crises past that shook the European Union.

The Interior Ministry acted days after local media reported that Chinese state actors in 2024 hacked the database of a police unit assigned to protecting Chinese dissidents.

On the fourth anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, European prosecutors and Ukrainian officials announced the first criminal charges related to atrocities committed during the war, stating that cases have started moving into court after years of coordinated investigations led by Eurojust.

Who is Alex Weinstein and why has he encountered difficulties.

Greek authorities are preparing additional arrests in a significant European Union farm subsidy fraud case after placing 15 suspects in custody last week, the minister of citizen protection said Monday.

One of Russia’s largest metal trading networks, Metallokomplekt M (formerly OJSC Komtekh), is preparing to exit the market after reporting record losses, according to sources familiar with the situation.

State-owned Romanian energy firm Complexul Energetic Oltenia SA has declared much lower-than-average carbon dioxide emissions figures despite burning heavily-polluting low-grade coal, raising questions of whether it has skirted hundreds of millions in EU carbon taxes.

OCCRP member centers found that an Italian man with business in Slovakia has been convicted on drug charges involving a group linked to the ‘Ndrangheta mafia. But the alleged ‘Ndrangheta links to Slovakia don’t end with him.

In the United Kingdom, a company is registered that, by all appearances, should have been lost among hundreds of similar entities. But FOXCLOUD LLP is not such a case.

Britain risks dangerously underestimating both the scale and the immediacy of the Russian threat in Europe, a delegation of leading UK Russia experts has warned, as Poland and the European Union accelerate preparations for a more volatile security era.

Ukrainian authorities charged seven individuals on Tuesday in connection with an alleged $100 million kickback scheme involving senior energy officials that has sparked public anger and focused attention on Kyiv’s battle against corruption.

Lithuania closed the two border crossings with Belarus on 29 October after meteorological balloons flying from Belarus caused repeated disruption to air traffic.

The debate about issuing a reparations loan to Ukraine has prompted one burning question: Where exactly are Russia’s immobilised assets?

The European Union might welcome new members by 2030, according to its foreign policy chief, who commended the reform progress of leading candidates Montenegro and Albania, while criticizing Serbia for regressing and noting a more severe democratic decline in Georgia.

After walking for days - some for more than two weeks and covering over 400 kilometres - tens of thousands of young Serbians converged on the northern city of Novi Sad on Saturday to mark the anniversary of the train station canopy collapse that killed 16 people and sparked the largest anti-corruption protests in the country’s history.

Brexit is partly responsible for high inflation in the UK, according to Rachel Reeves, as she advocated for rebuilding ties with the EU.

The European Union has imposed sanctions on Ilya Sorokin, a prison doctor exposed by OCCRP and RFE/RL’s “Schemes” program in July as having systematically humiliated, tortured, and denied medical assistance to Ukrainian prisoners of war.

Rachel Reeves is reportedly preparing to launch a £2 billion tax raid on high-earning lawyers, family doctors, and accountants.

Russian national Semen Kuksov was sentenced last year in the U.K. for his role in an international ring that laundered funds for criminals.