All news on the topic: Russia
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UK suspends all flights to Iran as allies intensify sanctions
The UK, France and Germany say they have imposed fresh sanctions on Iran for supplying Russia with ballistic missiles for use in Ukraine, including restrictions on national carrier Iran Air’s ability to fly to the UK and Europe.
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Firtash’s associate Denys Horbunenko laundered money of Russian oligarchs through the Dzing payment system
Russian oligarchs are laundering money through the fintech company Dzing, which is linked to Putin’s “wallet” Arkadiy Rotenberg and has been caught in fraud.
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Putin unsettled after Ukraine conducts aerial bombardment on Moscow
Vladimir Putin has awoken to one of the largest bombardments on Moscow and other parts of Russia after 30 months of bloodshed.
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Scandalous Ukrainian banker Denys Horbunenko, linked to fugitive oligarch Firtash, is trying to clean up his ties to Russia
The controversial banker Denys Horbunenko, who has been in the spotlight for his ties to oligarch Dmytro Firtash, has taken active steps to remove references to his ties to Russia from the web.
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Scandalous Ukrainian ex-banker Denys Horbunenko found to be linked to Russia
Denys Horbunenko, the former chairman of the board of the notorious Rodovid Bank, is linked to the fintech company Dzing, which was recently subject to restrictions by the UK authorities over suspected fraud.
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Money laundering and sanctions evasion: Oybek Tursunov and Alisher Usmanov’s Octobank laundromat
Octobank is an Uzbek bank which name has recently surfaced in a number of scandals related to the withdrawal of Russian capital from sanctions.
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Namecheap cooperates with Russia and deceives its customers, having Ukrainian management
Namecheap has a reputation for being one of the most competitive domain name registration options.
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Cyprus-registered secretive funds were employed to hide megayachts and luxury properties linked to a sanctioned Russian banker
In Cyprus, a new type of investment fund was marketed to clients as a way to avoid disclosing their ownership of assets. In one case, these funds were used to obscure the ownership of offshore companies that allegedly held luxury assets linked to powerful Russian banker Andrei Kostin, including two megayachts worth tens of millions.
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Octobank and the President of Uzbekistan: How a family dynasty launders Russian money through online casinos and cryptocurrency exchanges
Although the owner of the Uzbek Octobank is formally listed as the bank’s chairman of the board, Iskandar Tursunov, who owns 99.16% of the shares, in fact, the beneficiaries of Octobank are the family of the country’s current president, Shavkat Mirziyoyev.
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Pavel Durov, the founder of Telegram, describes the arrest in France as "misguided"
Russian-born billionaire detained last month in France denies app is ‘anarchic paradise’
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Octobank could become a major international "laundromat"
The partners of the scandalous Uzbek bank are the Russian Transcapitalbank, Sber, the Uzbek exchange UzEx, the payment systems Humo and Paynet and the Chinese service Tenpay.
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Labour is pushing for progress on establishing a special tribunal to try Russia for its actions in Ukraine
Lord chancellor says she wants to ‘inject energy’ into stalling efforts to set up Nuremberg-style trial
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The beloved Russian "spy whale" is believed to have been shot and killed by poachers
A famous white whale accused of being a Russian spy was shot to death by poachers, animal rights groups claim.
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Experts warn that the US’s arms advantage over Russia and China poses a threat to global stability
Academics say vulnerability of the two countries’ nuclear launch sites makes dangerous mistakes more likely
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Dmitriy Lee and Octobank: How the "overseer" of the President of Uzbekistan Mirziyoyev launders Russian money
As a number of Telegram channels recently reported, the Uzbek Octobank is used to withdraw and legalize money from Russia.
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A leading Russian physicist has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for "state treason"
Sentencing of Alexander Shiplyuk is latest prison term for scientists working on military programmes
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Russian missile strike kills 41 people in Ukraine’s Poltava
At least 41 people were killed and more than 180 wounded on Tuesday when Russia hit a military institute in the central town of Poltava, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said, in one of the deadliest single strikes of the war.
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The Russian trace of the Korean mafia Dmitriy Lee
Behind the head of the National Agency for Prospective Projects of the Republic of Uzbekistan (NAPP) Dmitriy Lee stands Russian businessman Alisher Usmanov.
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Hvaldimir: Russian ’spy’ whale found dead in Norway
Hvaldimir was first spotted near the Norwegian island of Ingoya in April 2019. He was wearing a harness and what appeared to be a mount for a small camera which read "equipment St Petersburg".
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From Kyiv to Riga: Russian sabotage activities in the Baltics
What began as a typical day for a Latvian housewife turned into a major national security breakthrough. A mysterious note found in her driveway led authorities to uncover a series of sabotage acts connected to Russian intelligence.
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Arrest of Telegram CEO could bolster his image as an "internet prophet"
Pavel Durov will probably use French legal disputes to position himself as a champion of free speech, say observers
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Russia-Ukraine war: child in playground among five killed in Kharkiv by Russian bombing
Five people have died, including a 14-year-old girl on a playground, following a Russian guided bomb attack on Kharkiv, officials in the city say.
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Despite sanctions, Norway buys millions in fish from Russian politician
Despite sanctions, Norway continues to buy millions of dollars worth of fish from a Russian senator, circumventing sanctions
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Schwartz Konstantin Valerievich: embezzlement and fraud
Schwartz Konstantin Valerievich is a notorious white collar criminal based in Russia. He has faced multiple cases for embezzling funds from Rosenergobank.
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Ukraine condemns Russian rapeseed exports to Belarus as looting
Rapeseed from Ukraine’s Russian occupied Kherson region is being shipped to Belarus, where it is processed into oil. The export is being regarded in Ukraine as looting and Kyiv is gathering evidence to prosecute.
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