Latest Russia Headlines
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Russia’s Oil Tanker Firm Sovcomflot Says G-7 Sanctions Make Oil Trade Less Safe
Sep 20 2024 // Russia’s state-run oil tanker company Sovcomflot PJSC said that western sanctions on ships moving the nation’s petroleum oil are only serving to heighten environmental risks by forcing some vessels out of...
Russian Insurers Play Growing Role in Facilitating Oil Exports to Top Buyer India
Sep 18 2024 // Russian insurers are playing a growing role facilitating the country’s oil shipments to India, its biggest buyer, data obtained from trade and shipping sources shows, helping to protect Moscow’s export revenue...
Russia’s RusChemAlliance Sues 5 European Banks Over Aborted Gas Project
Sep 17 2024 // Russian company RusChemAlliance has filed new lawsuits against five European banks that stopped financing the construction of a gas project in Russia after the West imposed sanctions against Moscow over the 2022 invasion...
Russia Loses EU Case Aimed at Unblocking Sanctioned €70 Billion
Sep 11 2024 // Russia’s National Settlement Depository lost a bid to overturn European Union sanctions over its alleged role in helping fund President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine. The Moscow-based institution was hit...
Judge Narrows Star Russian Soprano’s Lawsuit Against Met Opera
Aug 27 2024 // Anna Netrebko’s lawsuit against the Metropolitan Opera was narrowed to gender discrimination claims by a federal judge, who agreed to dismiss the star soprano’s allegations of defamation, breach of contract and...
London-Based Ship Registry Helps Russia Oil Tankers Keep Running
Aug 23 2024 // Three oil tankers that are under British sanctions for transporting Russian petroleum are sailing under the flag of a nation that bases its operations in London. The Galaxy, the Liberty and the Rigel, all of which moved...
Russian Court Orders $1.2B of Linde UK Assets Be Frozen
Aug 14 2024 // A Russian court has ordered that assets worth around $1.15 billion of a British subsidiary of German industrial gases company Linde be frozen in a dispute over a gas processing plant, court filings showed on...
Ukraine Boosts Grain Exports Despite Intensified Russian Attacks
Aug 12 2024 // Ukraine is scrambling to ship as much grain as it can this summer, taking advantage of military gains it has made in the Black Sea area to boost exports even as Russia has attacked its ports. Ukraine is a major global...
Western Insurers Provide Cover for Russian Oil Despite Price Cap Concerns
Aug 8 2024 // A group of Western insurers have provided cover for tankers carrying Russian crude, keeping its oil flowing after many in the trade sector withdrew for fear of breaching the rules of a G7 price cap, data from traders and...
A Gas Carrier Faking Its Location Helps Russia Avoid Sanctions
Aug 5 2024 // A liquefied natural gas tanker that’s docked at a sanctioned Russian gas facility has no known insurer, is managed by a little-known Indian company and is pretending to be somewhere else. Samir Madani, co-founder of...
Russian Commodities Aren’t Safe in Red Sea as Houthis Attack
Jul 26 2024 // Yemen’s Houthi militants have attacked more merchant ships hauling Russian commodities than products from anywhere else in the world, highlighting the limits of safe-passage assurances that the rebels gave Moscow...
Oil Tanker Insurance Payouts at Risk After UK’s Russia Sanctions
Jul 23 2024 // Transfers of oil at sea that involve a recently sanctioned Russian insurer may prevent western firms from paying claims if something goes wrong, a key provider of cover said. Moscow-based Ingosstrakh PJSC has emerged of a...
Two Russian Men Plead Guilty in LockBit Ransomware Attacks
Jul 22 2024 // Two Russian nationals pleaded guilty to their roles in ransomware attacks in the US, Asia, Europe and Africa for a notorious hacking gang known as LockBit. Ruslan Astamirov and Mikhail Vasiliev admitted they helped to...
SolarWinds Beats Most of SEC Lawsuit Over Russia-Linked Cyberattack
Jul 19 2024 // A U.S. judge dismissed most of a Securities and Exchange Commission lawsuit accusing software company SolarWinds of defrauding investors by concealing its security weaknesses before and after a Russia-linked cyberattack...
Russian Cybersecurity Firm Kaspersky Labs to Wind Down US Operations
Jul 18 2024 // Kaspersky Labs will gradually wind down its U.S. operations from July 20, the Russian anti-virus software maker said on Monday, nearly a month after the Biden administration announced plans to bar sales of the company in...
Russian Tactics Make Secret Tanker Oil Switching Harder to Trace
Jul 17 2024 // Two near-identical oil tankers trying to beat western sanctions. A secret transfer of Russian crude halfway between Iran and Oman. A supertanker giving a false location. Welcome to the modern trade in Russian petroleum as...
UK, EU States to Target Russia’s Shadow Oil Fleet With More Checks
Jul 15 2024 // The UK plans to launch a “call to action” this week with a group of European nations to target the so-called shadow fleet of oil tankers that Russia uses to skirt international sanctions, according to people...
Russian Court Orders Volkswagen to Pay $193M in Damages to Russian Carmaker
Jul 9 2024 // A Russian court has ordered Volkswagen to pay 16.9 billion roubles ($193 million) in damages to Russian carmaker GAZ Group, which had sued the German automaker over lost profits after Volkswagen exited the Russian...
Microsoft Tells Texas Agencies They Were Exposed in Russian Hack
Jul 1 2024 // Microsoft Corp. has told more than a dozen state agencies and public universities in Texas that Russian state-sponsored hackers accessed emails between them and the software giant. The attackers were able to gain access to...
Here Are the Legal Battle Lines in Ireland’s Multi-Billion Euro Russian Jet Trial
Jun 28 2024 // The opening salvos have been fired in a 2.5 billion euro ($2.7 billion), Irish court battle between some of the world’s largest aircraft lessors and their insurers over around 80 jets stranded in...
