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Following Deadly Blast, Russia Launches Floating Nuclear Reactor
Aug 23 2019 // Russia’s Rosatom shipped its first floating nuclear-power reactor on Friday, setting the unit off on a barge journey among Arctic ice caps, raising concerns in the wake of a recent military accident that caused a...
Nuclear Watchdog Says Russia Resumes Sharing Radiation Data
Aug 21 2019 // Russia has resumed sharing data from its radiation monitoring stations in Siberia after some were taken offline following a deadly explosion at a missile range, a nuclear weapons watchdog said Tuesday. The mysterious...
Putin Vows Russian Nuclear Accident That Killed 5 Scientists Poses No Further Risk
Aug 20 2019 // President Vladimir Putin said there’s no risk from the explosion at a Russian military facility that caused a radiation spike and killed at least five people. “There’s no threat there and no increase in...
Russia’s Yandex Accelerates Driverless Car Testing
Aug 19 2019 // Yandex, a Russian equivalent to Google, said it is considering expanding its fleet of self-driving cars to up to 1,000 within the next two years in order to speed up tests on the fledgling technology. Yandex hopes to start...
Sun Valley Climate Conference’s Broad Agenda: Wildfires, Military, Insurance, Resilience
Aug 1 2019 // Washington had a record 1,850 responses to wildfires on Department of Natural Resources lands last year. Over the last five years, wildfires have continued to hit the state hard. One state official, who believes climate...
Russian Aeroflot Plane Hit by Lightning Before It Crashed, Killing 41: Investigators
Jun 17 2019 // Lightning struck a Russian Sukhoi Superjet 100 aircraft knocking out its auto pilot system shortly before it crash landed in Moscow last month killing 41 people, investigators said on Friday, adding it had approached too...
Russia’s Aeroflot Cuts Superjet Flights After Fatal Crash in May
Jun 4 2019 // Russian airline Aeroflot has scaled back the number of Sukhoi Superjet 100 flights it operates after one of its planes made a crash-landing last month, killing 41 people, according to data provided by a flight tracking...
Recent Airline Crashes Don’t Reflect Aviation Safety Record
May 10 2019 // With plane crashes making headlines recently, one in Florida with no fatalities and another in Russia that killed dozens, travelers might question whether flying has become less safe. Aviation experts regard the recent...
Aeroflot Plane Makes Fiery Emergency Landing at Moscow Airport, Killing 41 People
May 6 2019 // An Aeroflot PJSC plane on a domestic Russian flight made a fiery emergency landing at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo Airport, killing 41 people. Flight SU1492 to Murmansk, a Sukhoi Superjet, suffered an engine fire after...
Explaining Europe’s Growing Money Laundering Scandal
Apr 8 2019 // The largest ever money laundering scandal in Europe is rippling through the region’s banks. It began in the Baltics and has engulfed several Nordic lenders, notably Denmark’s Danske and Sweden’s Swedbank,...
Money Launderers Could Begin Targeting Smaller Banks, Warns Denmark
Apr 2 2019 // Denmark’s financial watchdog is warning that smaller banks need to be on high alert for signs of money laundering as larger lenders tighten their surveillance systems. Jesper Berg, director general of the Financial...
Another Money Laundering Risk Seen Coming from Firms Providing Payment Services
Mar 20 2019 // As one avenue for money launderers is shut, another one may be opening. In Denmark, home to Danske Bank A/S, the authorities are now taking a closer look at companies that provide payment services. The worry is that the...
Update: Europe’s Dirty Money Could Total $1 Trillion, Says Anti-Corruption Investor Browder
Mar 7 2019 // Bill Browder, the investor who’s made a career of chasing money launderers, says the cases he’s brought against banks so far only represent a tiny fraction of the full amount in dirty money trying to get out of...
What’s Known About Massive Russia Money Laundering Scheme, ‘Troika Laundromat’
Mar 7 2019 // The so-called Troika Laundromat was a financial network set up by a Russian investment bank to help clients move money out of the country and hide it. The scheme exported about $4.8 billion over seven years, with the help...
Swedbank Money Laundering Scandal Deepens with Possible Ukraine Connection
Feb 27 2019 // Allegations of money laundering against Sweden’s oldest bank grew this week to draw in some of the former Soviet Union’s most notorious individuals. Viktor Yanukovych, the president of Ukraine until 2014, used...
Unpicking the Complicated Finances of UK Insurance Exec, Pro-Brexit Donor Banks
Feb 25 2019 // Ever since Brexit supporter Arron Banks made the largest political donation in British history he’s been dogged by questions about where he got the money. For a man who told the Financial Times he was worth 100...
World’s Automakers Face Massive Disruption from Car Sharing Phenomenon
Feb 11 2019 // When Evgeny Barkov owned a car, the 31-year-old software salesman would often look out of his Moscow window at it with disgust. His possession sat unused more than 90 percent of time, while sucking up money and causing him...
Cyber Attack, or Act of (Cyber) War?
Feb 4 2019 // How a Small Distinction Can Nullify Insurance Coverage In June 2017, the NotPetya virus crippled many large companies including Merck and Mondelez (the manufacturer of Nabisco, Cadbury, and Toblerone). The aggregated...
CIA Says China, Russia Pose Biggest Cyber Attack Threats to U.S.
Jan 30 2019 // Russia and China pose the biggest espionage and cyber attack threats to the United States and are more aligned than they have been in decades, the leader of the U.S. intelligence community told U.S. senators on...
Ship in Black Sea Fire Was Denied Port Entry over U.S. Sanctions Risk: Reuters
Jan 23 2019 // Two ships ablaze in the Black Sea region, leaving at least 10 crew dead, caught fire while transferring fuel mid-sea after one vessel was barred from using its usual port in southern Russia due to U.S. sanctions risk, two...
