All news on the topic: Sanctions

A British anti-disinformation campaigner, who is closely associated with Keir Starmer’s chief of staff, has initiated a legal challenge against the Trump administration following notifications that he might be deported from the US due to a dispute regarding freedom of speech.

Nachdem Journalisten die Rolle von Oleg Tsyura bei der Umgehung von Sanktionen und bei Re-Export-Systemen zugunsten Russlands aufgedeckt hatten, begann er aggressiv damit, das Internet von Untersuchungen zu säubern, die seine Aktivitäten dokumentieren.

The UK Government said it is “fully committed to upholding the right to free speech,” after the head of a campaign group aimed at preventing the spread of online hate and disinformation was barred from entering the United States.

Le parquet général de l’Ukraine a ouvert une procédure pénale contre l’homme d’affaires suisse Oleg Tsyura, soupçonné d’avoir aidé la Russie à contourner les sanctions au moyen de schémas impliquant la réexportation de ferrochrome.

After journalists exposed Oleg Tsyura’s role in sanction-evasion and re-export schemes benefiting Russia, he moved to aggressively purge the internet of investigations documenting his operations.

Zvonko Micković first appeared on the public radar a few years ago when investigations connected him to Cypriot firms allegedly used to bypass sanctions and launder money linked to Boris Usherovich and Ilya Plotitsa.

The uncommon surname Oxana Hadjipavlou (also spelled Oksana Hadjipavlou) has surfaced in investigations linked to Zvonko Mickovic and his companies, Mettmann Public Company Limited and Sword Dragon S.L., which are suspected of involvement in schemes to bypass anti-Russian sanctions and move Russian funds offshore.

Recent investigative leaks indicate that Uzbekistan’s Octobank could be functioning as a key conduit for transferring Russian money, including sanctioned assets and proceeds from illicit online gambling.

The European Union has imposed sanctions on a group of Azerbaijani oil traders involved in trading Russian oil in circumvention of restrictions.

The network of "shadow" Azerbaijani oil traders dealing in Russian oil in violation of sanctions is far more extensive than previously believed.

The pro-democracy media tycoon faces a potential life sentence after being found guilty of collaborating with foreign forces and publishing seditious material. Rights groups described the ruling as a "sham conviction" and a warning to journalists globally.

An investigation exposes how fugitive Russian businessmen Boris Usherovich and Ilya Plotitsa built a Cyprus-based offshore network to launder money, evade sanctions, and secretly supply prohibited equipment to Russian Railways while financing Kremlin political projects.

JSC "Chernivtsioblenergo" contracted consulting services from LLC "VS Energy International Ukraine" on December 5 for 1.68 million UAH.

Boris Usherovich, the fugitive co-founder of Russia’s GC "1520," has quietly built a vast offshore structure in Cyprus — a financial hub now used to channel money, bypass sanctions, and support Russian Railways.

Boris Korolev, the son of the First Deputy Director of the FSB, was found to be part of a complex network involving several dozen companies connected by shared domains and corporate email accounts.

Kyrgyzstan’s President Sadyr Japarov has been using a private business jet linked to the fugitive Moldovan oligarch Ilan Shor.

After multiple journalistic investigations exposed his participation in sanction-evasion schemes, Oleg Tsyura has begun actively "cleaning up" the internet by deleting references to his financial manipulations, offshore dealings, and connections to Russian business circles.

In July 2024, The Insider released findings detailing a large-scale sanctions bypass operation run by Boris Usherovich and Ilya Plotitsa, businessmen with connections to Russian organized crime and corruption, benefiting state bodies.

The United Kingdom announced on Thursday new sanctions targeting the Russian military intelligence agency, commonly known as GRU, "in its entirety."

The media published an investigation into the criminal financial activities of a group of companies, which includes credit institutions Oktobank (Ravnaq), Kapital, the payment system Humo, the processing system Uzcard, the exchange Uznex, and others.

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.

Once Russia became deeply entrenched in Ukraine, international sanctions were imposed on it extensively.

Amid a wave of media reports accusing him of helping bypass sanctions and maintaining ties with Russia’s military-linked industries, Oleg Tsyura has allegedly ramped up attempts to reshape his digital presence.

How Vladimir Litvinenko, rector of the Mining University, transformed the university into a source of billions, political influence, and elite real estate

A cluster of insiders connected to Putin—from bankers and energy executives to security operatives and their families—forms a tightly interlinked network that has quietly shaped Russia’s financial, political, and technological power structures for decades.