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#1 The Secretive World of Russian Oil Tanker Insurance Revealed
Oct 22 2024 // One of the energy market’s open questions since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has been who’s insuring the tankers moving Moscow’s petroleum against the risk of a catastrophic oil spill. The answer is...
#2 Multibillion-Euro Court Battle Over Stranded Russian Jets Begins in Dublin
Jun 11 2024 // Some of the world’s largest aircraft lessors faced off against their insurers in a Dublin courtroom on Tuesday at the start of a months-long battle over around 2.5 billion euros ($2.7 billion) of insurance claims...
#3 YouTube Forced to Play a Game of Legal Whack-a-Mole With Russia
Oct 30 2024 // When YouTube blocked three Russian channels it said were controlled by sanctioned supporters of Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, the US video company thought any disputes would be resolved in courts in...
#4 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...
#5 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...
#6 Russia Faces Impending Oil Tanker Crisis as Sanctions Pile Up: Bloomberg Oil Strategist
Feb 7 2025 // Russia appears to be on the cusp of a debilitating oil-freight transportation problem because of US sanctions, writes Bloomberg oil strategist Julian Lee. On Jan. 10, the US Treasury sanctioned 161 oil tankers for their...
#7 Western Officials Say Russia Is Behind Campaign of Sabotage Across Europe
Mar 27 2025 // Western officials have accused Russia and its proxies of staging dozens of attacks and other incidents across Europe since the invasion of Ukraine three years ago, according to data collected by The Associated Press. They...
#8 Russia Suspected of Plotting to Send Incendiary Devices to US
Nov 5 2024 // European and US intelligence officials believe Russia is behind a plan that would ultimately place incendiary devices on planes to North America through air cargo shipments, according to people familiar with the...
#9 Firm Issued Fake Insurance for Russian Oil Tankers, Norway’s Regulator Says
Apr 2 2025 // The insurance issued to dozens of aging oil tankers used by Russia to skirt international sanctions was bogus, according to Norwegian authorities now investigating the small firm behind the forged...
#10 Russian Oil Finds New Site for Controversial Cargo Switching
Jun 4 2024 // Under pressure from Greece’s navy, traders of Russian oil have found a new place to switch cargoes of crude in the Mediterranean sea, a sign of how hard it will be to clamp down on an activity that has alarmed...
#11 Biden Bans US Sales of Kaspersky Software Over Russia Ties
Jun 21 2024 // The Biden administration on Thursday announced plans to bar the sale of antivirus software made by Russia’s Kaspersky Lab in the United States, with Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo saying that Russia’s...
#12 Global Insurers Fight London Court Battle Over Jets Seized in Russia
Oct 2 2024 // Insurers are playing “pass the liability parcel” in a desperate fight against multi-billion dollar claims over aircraft stranded in Russia since the invasion of Ukraine two years ago, lawyers for aviation...
#13 Russia and Iran Are Ramping Up Threats to UK, Spy Chief Warns
Oct 9 2024 // Threats to the UK from Russia and Iran and the danger posed by the Islamic State group have increased in recent months, according to the head of Britain’s domestic spy agency. Ken McCallum, the director-general of...
#14 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...
#15 UK Puts First Sanctions on Russia’s Shadow-Fleet Oil Tankers
Jun 13 2024 // The UK announced wide-ranging sanctions on Russia, including a first attempt to clamp down on a shadow-fleet of tankers transporting the Kremlin’s oil and a key Moscow-based insurance company.The measures target four...
#16 Tougher US Sanctions to Curb Russian Oil Supply to China and India
Jan 13 2025 // Chinese and Indian refiners will source more oil from the Middle East, Africa and the Americas, boosting prices and freight costs, as new U.S. sanctions on Russian producers and ships curb supplies to Moscow’s top...
#17 Kremlin Says Google Should Lift YouTube Block on Russian Broadcasters
Nov 1 2024 // The Kremlin said on Thursday that Alphabet’s Google should lift its block on Russian TV channels broadcasting on YouTube and said it hoped huge legal claims racking up against the U.S.-based company would jolt it...
#18 UK Warns of Grain Threat After Russia Steps Up Port Attacks
Oct 23 2024 // An increase in Russian attacks on Ukrainian port infrastructure in recent weeks threatens food shipments to destinations from Gaza to southern Africa, the UK warned. British intelligence has detected a “noticeable...
#19 Germany Confiscates Tanker in Russian ‘Shadow Fleet,’ Spiegel Reports
Mar 21 2025 // Germany seized a decrepit tanker found adrift off its northern coast in January that is believed to be part of a shadow fleet used by Russia to circumvent oil sanctions, Spiegel news magazine reported on Friday, citing...
#20 Russia Expands Response to Biggest Black Sea Fuel Spill in Decades
Jan 14 2025 // Russia has formed a new government commission to coordinate clean up of the biggest spill of oil products in the Black Sea in recent history as the Kremlin continues to assess the full scale of the catastrophe. Two tankers...
