Despite harsh European sanctions against Russia, one of Russia’s most infamous oligarchs, Boris Rotenberg, has managed to expand his business ventures on the French Riviera, a joint investigation by the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP), the Russian newspaper Novaya Gazeta, and the French Le Monde reveal.
The report sheds...
The Russian arms industry has lost more than $3 billion in failed weapons deals with third countries over the threat of U.S. sanctions, the State Department told reporters on Tuesday.
The Trump administration has held off on imposing sanctions on Russia’s intelligence and defense sectors mandated by legislation passed nearly...
Several people who worked at the St. Petersburg "troll factory" mention in a U.S. indictment against Russian citizens and companies say they think the criminal charges are well-founded, The Associated Press reports.
A former employee at the innocuously named Internet Research Agency named Marat Mindiyarov said the organization's Facebook department...
A confectionery factory in the Russian city of Lipetsk belonging to Ukraine’s Roshen Corporation would be better off "rotten" than sold for less than $200 million, the company’s CEO Vyacheslav Moskalevsky has said.
"Right now, I think they are worth nothing. No one will pay me $200 million for...
Russian oligarch and owner of giants En+ and Rosal Oleg Deripaska has stepped down as president of both companies. The billionaire gives up his role in the energy and aluminum businesses amid a brewing battle between the tycoon and two other Russian oligarchs for control of Norilsk Nickel, as...
The Kremlin on Monday denied Russian government involvement in interfering with the 2016 U.S. presidential election, Reuters reported.
Spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters the allegations are baseless.
"First, as before, we do not see any significant evidence that someone interferes in the internal affairs of the U.S. Second, we are talking...
A Russian news outlet based in the U.S. has registered as a foreign agent with the Justice Department, becoming the fourth Russian-linked media company to do so since November under pressure from the U.S. government, Reuters reported.
RIA Global LLC, which produces content for Russian state-owned news outlet Sputnik, registered...
“Putin’s chef” charged with organizing “troll factory” to interfere in U.S. elections
A company called the Internet Research Agency (IRA) was charged by Special counsel Robert Mueller's office with violating U.S. law and interfering in the 2016 election, along with 13 Russian nationals.
As Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein said while...
A federal jury in the United States has charged 13 Russian nationals and three Russian companies as part of an investigation into alleged interference in the country's 2016 presidential elections, Bloomberg reported. The charges by the office of Special Counsel Robert Mueller described a conspiracy to sway public opinion...
A senior Russian lawmaker said Wednesday that Parliament is working on a bill to regulate private military companies after reports that an unknown number of Russian military contractors were killed in a U.S. strike in Syria.
The head of the defense committee in the Duma, the lower house of Russia's...
