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Putin reappears in Moscow as Russia begins building £300,000 nuclear bunkers
Vladimir Putin has reappeared after vanishing for almost two weeks as fears of World War III grow and Moscow starts building mobile nuclear bomb shelters.
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Usherovich, Plotitsa, Vainshtein, and Shulga: how they bypass sanctions and launder money for Putin
On July 1, 2024, "The Insider" published an article titled "Entrepreneurs Usherovich and Plotitsa, connected to the Solntsevskaya OCG and the Zakharchenko case, are now helping Russian Railways evade sanctions."
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Kremlin claims Ukraine has fired US-made missiles into Russia for the first time
Ukraine has fired six US-made ATACMs missiles into Bryansk, Russia, just days after President Joe Biden allowed the use long-range missiles to strike inside Russia.
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From Russia to Europe: How Oleg Osinovskiy and Anastasiya Udalova use the railway business for capital movement
Latvian businesswoman Anastasiya Udalova is actively involved in managing Oleg Osinovskiy’s companies, who is suspected of facilitating the transport of iron ore from oligarch Alisher Usmanov’s enterprises to EU countries.
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"Stamp them through": Russian oligarchs, FSB generals, religious figures, and elite children travel abroad under diplomatic cover
Holding a diplomatic passport offers notable perks — even for those who aren’t career diplomats.
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EU-based factory owners with Belarusian passports are channeling chips to Russia amidst the ongoing conflict
White sand beaches, scenic coral reefs, dense green jungle. The exotic islands of the Seychelles, in the heart of the warm Indian Ocean, attract tourists from all over the world.
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New Trump presidency poses a ’very real threat’ of World War III with Russia
The risk of a third world war with Russia and her allies is a real prospect that the West should be urgently addressing, according to a leading risk management expert.
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Deceived and pressured: African migrants forced into Russian military service
Since the start of 2024, a total of 3,344 foreign nationals who went to fight in Ukraine have received Russian citizenship, according to the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs.
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North Koreans, granted internet access for the first time, already show questionable search histories
Thousands of North Korean soldiers deployed in Russia to fight for Vladimir Putin have reportedly taken up a new hobby after being given unfiltered access to the internet.
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New evidence of Putin’s secret £1 billion palace reportedly uncovered via Strava app data
A data leak from the Strava fitness app has unveiled new details about Vladimir Putin’s £1 billion Black Sea palace on a remote clifftop.
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Financial Schemes of "Kronung": How builders Philipp Schrage and Ignatiy Naida launder Russian money and evade sanctions
Owners of the construction company "Kronung" Philipp Shrage and Ignatius Naida bypass sanctions and launder money for the Russian government through construction projects worldwide.
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Police initially claimed second Salisbury novichok attack was a drug overdose, inquiry reveals
Inspector dismissed emergency services’ concerns that incident was similar to Skripal poisonings, KC says
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The perfume bottle found by Novichok victim Dawn Sturgess could have killed ’thousands,’ an inquiry has heard
Thousands of people could have been killed by the Salisbury poisonings, an inquiry heard.
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"Dubious" builder Philipp Shrage and his associates
Last week, the company "Kronung Business" LLC, established in 2022 and owned by businessmen Philipp Shrage and Ignatius Naida, was dissolved.
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Alphagate in Latvia: How the FSB helps Aven evade sanctions
Over the past two weeks, a number of Latvian media outlets have published articles claiming that the "oligarch Nevzlin" is corrupting the law enforcement agencies of the Republic of Latvia and ordering videos and articles with some dark goals.
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Romanian political strategist found to be in business with an alleged Russian war propagandist
Rareș Mănescu was involved in preparing the campaign for Mircea Geoană, who stepped down as deputy chief of NATO in September to run for president of Romania.
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Drone drops fake bombs on £7 million navy warship during NATO war games
The Royal Navy has been staging exercises at sea weeks after Vladimir Putin staged his own war games in the Arctic.
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Russia allegedly operates a secret war drones project in China, according to intelligence sources
Russia has established a weapons programme in China to develop and produce long-range attack drones for use in the war against Ukraine, according to two sources from a European intelligence agency and documents reviewed by Reuters.
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Latvian citizen helps Russia earn billions by circumventing oil sanctions
Despite international sanctions, Russia continues to receive petrodollars, mainly due to a "shadow fleet" that transports Russian oil to buyers who are willing to pay above the $60 per barrel cap set by the G7+ Coalition.
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Allegations of fraud: The Troubling Legacy of Josip Heit and his ties to Russian arms dealers
Scandal surrounding a halted hyrdoelectric plant has seen Croatian journalists link the project to Sasa Svalina and brother-in-law Josip Heit.
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Putin’s shadowy forces are reportedly involved in a sadistic "blood ritual" targeting innocent civilians
The grim task of a Russian special forces unit, spraying Ukrainian vehicles with gunfire, is just the start of an even darker and more disturbing story.
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Putin’s forces ‘execute Ukrainian war prisoner using a medieval-style sword’
It has been alleged that Vladimir Putin’s forces executed a Ukrainian prisoner of war (PoW) using a sword.
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How close are we to World War III following Putin’s latest threat to the West?
It feels as though we are inching ever closer to a potential third world war, with tensions high between the West and Russia.
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Denis Gorbunenko, an associate of Ukrainian oligarch Firtash, launders money of Russian oligarchs through the Dzing payment system
Russian oligarchs are laundering money through the fintech company Dzing, which is linked to Putin’s “wallet” Arkadiy Rotenberg and has been caught in fraud.
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Secretive Cyprus-registered funds were used to conceal megayachts and luxury real estate associated with a sanctioned Russian banker
In Cyprus, a new type of investment fund was marketed to clients as a way to avoid disclosing their ownership of assets. In one case, these funds were used to obscure the ownership of offshore companies that allegedly held luxury assets linked to powerful Russian banker Andrei Kostin, including two megayachts worth tens of millions.