Thursday, June 19, 2025
Spain has extradited a man accused of embezzling nearly $10 million from the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) to Moscow, The Russia Legal Information Agency reported. The Russian side received Mikhail Lyagin, who is accused of embezzlement of 550 million rubles ($9.7 million) from the Russian Federal Security Service on...
The United States has warned governments around the world that they could face sanctions over any "significant transactions" they make with Russia's military, senior U.S. officials have said, according to Reuters. The warnings officials disclosed on Wednesday to reporters in Washington follow the U.S. State Department's claim this week that...
Top Democrats are calling on Congress to give the FBI $300 million to fight potential foreign interference in this year’s midterm elections, a request that comes just days after the Justice Department indicted Russians for meddling in the 2016 presidential contest, CBS News reports. The letter was sent Wednesday by...
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...
Russia’s Rosneft oil and gas company has signed a contract on buying 5 billion cubic meters of gas from the nation’s energy giant Gazprom at a regulated price, several industry sources informed Kommersant. The oil company needs gas to meet its obligations under long-term contracts. Initially, Rosneft planned to close...
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...
Russia needs to draft a concept of Arctic tourism development which would promote tourism in the Russian North, Inna Karakchiyeva, leading adviser of the Analytical Center for the Russian Government, said at a conference. "It is necessary to draft a White Book of Cluster Policy in Arctic Tourism because we must have a concept of exploring Arctic tourism...
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...