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LRT: German duty-free operator continues luxury goods supply to Russia

Gebr. Heinemann, running shops in Lithuanian airports, continues supplies to Russia through companies controlled by Russian oligarchs, while claiming compliance with EU sanctions.

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Sanctioned Russian billionaires continue to profit despite restrictions

Russian billionaires, many with close ties to Putin, have received $11.3 billion in dividends as companies resume payouts amid Russia's economic rebound. Top earners include sanctioned individuals who have found ways to circumvent restrictions and redirect exports.

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Majority of Russian billionaires see wealth increase in 2023, Bloomberg index shows

The ranking shows 25 Russian billionaires among the world's 500 most affluent, with a combined wealth increase of $38.575 bn in 2023, despite only three seeing a decrease

byIryna Voichuk

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Investigation: pro-Putin German journalist received $ 660k from Russia

An investigation found prominent reporter Hubert Seipel, who reliably backed Kremlin narratives, was funded by an oligarch with ties to Putin's personal finances.

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Ukraine nears breakthrough in confiscating EU-based Russian assets

Ukraine is nearing a landmark confiscation of Russian oligarchic money in a company posing as Dutch, potentially opening the door to confiscation of other Russian assets in the West, a total of $300 bn that could be used to rebuild Ukraine.

byEuromaidan Press Contributor

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Unauthorized Russian companies pay Russian soldiers to fight in Ukraine – Investigation

Russian oligarchs’ companies that are not under sanctions fictitiously employ Russia soldiers and pay them for fighting in Ukraine.

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Making the Kremlin pay: five steps for Ukraine and the world to seize Russian assets

Do Russian assets constitute a potential source of compensation for damages and losses incurred in Ukraine? In our…

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Russian oligarch profits from occupation of Ukraine while maintaining US ties – media

Aleksey Repik, who is profiting from state contracts to develop the Russian-occupied city of Mariupol, which Russia bombed…

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International

The $ 300 billion question: Why the West does not confiscate Russian frozen assets despite Ukraine war

At the beginning of the Russo-Ukrainian war, the EU and US imposed several packages of sanctions on Russia,…

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Putin’s pal profits from Kyiv mall financing Russian military – journo investigation

The Ministry of Justice of Ukraine has filed a lawsuit with the High Anti-Corruption Court of Ukraine (HACC)…

byKate Ryabchiy

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US attorney general allows first transfer of Russian oligarch’s confiscated assets to Ukraine

US Attorney General Merrick Garland announced on 3 February that the frozen assets of a Russian oligarch will…

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Ukraine seizes USD 870,000 of sanctioned Russian oligarch Deripaska

Ukraine has seized UAH 32 million ($870,000) of Ukraine’s largest producer of metallurgical alumina and aluminum hydroxide, owned…

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Russian oligarchs moved assets before Russian invasion of Ukraine to evade sanctions – US Treasury

Ekonomichna Pravda reports, citing the findings from the FinCEN report (the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, the bureau within…

byKate Ryabchiy

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Ukraine seizes $54 million worth of assets of Russian oligarch Usmanov

A Ukrainian court has seized $54 million worth of property belonging to pro-Kremlin oligarch Alisher Usmanov, Ukraine’s Security…

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Opinion

Western cultural institutions should redirect Russian oligarch money to programs helping Ukraine

In 2022, Russia invaded Ukraine. Sadly, this invasion is only the latest eruption in Russia’s igniting a continuous…

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The post-Soviet oligarchy and how it shaped national state politics | 30 Years of Freedom, p.2

Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia Van Voren: Of course, you have a number of Lithuanians who managed quite cleverly to…

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“Holocaust Disneyland” on mass graves in Kyiv – result of weak national memory policy

The museum is planned to be built in Babyn Yar, where the largest executions were committed by Nazi…

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International

Russian oligarchs in Europe: soccer, churches, and working for the Kremlin

Vadim Novinsky One of the key figures opposing the Ukrainian Orthodox Church independence in Ukraine is Russian oligarch…

byEuromaidan Press Staff

Street protests in Moscow against increases in pension ages by Putin government, September 9, 2018 (Image: novayagazeta.ru)

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Given rising Russian protests, Putin has three options – and none is good for Ukraine, Portnikov says

The protests in Russia on Sunday were an unusual event, but they were not “the beginning of a…

byPaul A. Goble

A British policeman roping off the scene of the chemical weapon attack targeting Sergei Skripal and his daughter in Salisbury, Wiltshire, England on March 4, 2018 (Image: video capture)

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Moscow attacked Skripal for betraying Russian oligarchs, highlighting mafia nature of Putin regime, Portnikov says

Sergey Skripal’s cooperation with the Spanish authorities in exposing the criminality of the Russian oligarchs rather than the…

byPaul A. Goble