On January 18, the day after Alexei Navalny returned from Germany, a court hearing, unique even for Russia, was held in Khimki near Moscow: right in the police department, Judge Elena Morozova imprisoned the...
Boris Nemtsov was shot dead late in the evening on February 27, 2015, on the Bolshoy Moskvoretsky Bridge, a hundred meters from the Kremlin. Five perpetrators were convicted of the assassination. The trial lasted...
Russian businessman Alexander Udodov, husband of the sister of Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin, was a co-owner of a company that was part of the ULS Global holding, which was engaged in the import...
The HBO series “Chernobyl” was watched by the citizens of Lithuania a little differently than by the rest world. The scenes in Pripyat, where the emergency station workers lived, were filmed in one of...
It’s been five years since the annexation of Crimea and the introduction of sanctions. Since then, dozens of owners of companies working on the peninsula had to either sell their business or think of...
A bank, hotels, energy companies. A business empire close to the Russians Yevgeny Giner, Mikhail Voevodin and Alexander Babakov, has grown throughout Ukraine until 2014. After the annexation of Crimea, some of the companies...
Before the annexation of Crimea, Rinat Akhmetov, Ukraine’s richest man, owned the “DTEK Krymenergo” energy company, two factories in Kerch, the “Novyi Kuchuk-Koy” residence in Parkovoye, and the “Bereg” children’s camp in Alushta. After...
How a Ukrainian patriotic businessman and former Verkhovna Rada deputy and his European companies have been working in Crimea for three years, despite the EU sanctions. “There is no better place in the world...
Russian businessman Alexander Lebedev, a shareholder of “Novaya Gazeta” and The Independent, owns a tourism business in the annexed Crimea through European companies, although EU sanctions prohibit it. Russian businessman Alexander Lebedev, who owns...
In late August 2018, large-scale emissions of sulfur dioxide and hydrogen chloride occurred at the “Crimea TITAN” plant in the annexed Crimea. They poisoned thousands of people in several areas. In the fall of...
