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Russia’s Renaissance Insurance Plans to Raise Up to $290M in IPO on Moscow Exchange

Sep 27 2021 // Renaissance Insurance Group said on Monday it plans to list its shares on the Moscow Exchange and raise up to $290 million in an initial public offering (IPO), riding Russia’s emerging IPO wave.Russian IPO activity,...

Russia’s Largest Online Insurer Weighs Acquisitions Ahead of Possible IPO

Sep 23 2021 // Renaissance Insurance, Russia’s largest online policy provider, is trawling the country’s traditional insurers for acquisition targets as it prepares for a possible initial public offering.RenIns — which...

Russia-Linked Ransomware Group Hits Iowa Grain Cooperative, Violating Biden Warning

Sep 21 2021 // After a furious run of ransomware attacks in the first half of the year, President Joe Biden in July warned his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, that Russia-based hacking groups should steer clear of 16 critical...

Russia’s Tech Giant Yandex Says It Repelled Biggest DDoS Attack in History

Sep 9 2021 // MOSCOW — A cyber attack on Russian tech giant Yandex’s servers in August and September was the largest known distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack in the history of the internet, the company said on...

Russia’s Renaissance Insurance Plans $1 Billion IPO in Moscow: Reuters

Sep 6 2021 // Renaissance Insurance Group is planning to hold an initial public offering on the Moscow Exchange potentially as early as this autumn, a source familiar with the preparation for the listing told Reuters on Friday.The...

Biden Administration Sanctions Russian Insurer for Nord Stream 2: Report

Aug 23 2021 // The Biden administration imposed sanctions on two Russian entities over their involvement in the Nord Stream 2 pipeline project, but is leaving in place a waiver that spared the company overseeing the construction and its...

Russia’s Nord Stream Pipeline 99% Complete, but Insurance Needed Before Gas Flows

Aug 20 2021 // A controversial Russian pipeline to Europe can deliver its first batches of natural gas to Germany this year, according to Gazprom PJSC.The Nord Stream 2 link can ship 5.6 billion cubic meters of the fuel in 2021, the...

Russia TV Channel Abandons Talks with Google to Get YouTube Account Unblocked

Aug 16 2021 // MOSCOW – Tsargrad TV, a news channel owned by a sanctioned Russian businessman, said it had abandoned talks with Google to have its YouTube account unblocked and on Monday accused the U.S. group of dragging its feet in...

Flooding Damages Bridge on Russia’s Trans-Siberian Railway, Blocking Traffic

Jul 23 2021 // MOSCOW – Flooding has damaged a bridge on Russia’s Trans-Siberian railway in its Far East, suspending traffic in the area, officials said on Friday, and President Vladimir Putin said full track repair would take...

U.S. Fights Cyber Attacks by Blacklisting, Sanctioning Russian Tech Firms

Jul 19 2021 // The United States on Friday took a new stab at Russia’s cybersecurity industry, restricting trade with four information technology firms and two other entities over “aggressive and harmful” activities...

How Russian Military Uses ‘Brute Force’ to Hack U.S. Government, Companies

Jul 8 2021 // U.S. and British agencies disclosed last week details of “brute force” methods they say have been used by Russian intelligence to try to break into the cloud services of hundreds of government agencies, energy...

Russia Fights Wildfires in Siberia and the Far East

Jun 15 2021 // Russian emergency workers fought wildfires burning Sunday on more than 550 square kilometers (212 square miles) of territory mostly in Siberia and the Far East.The state agency responsible for fighting forest fires,...

Russia-Linked Hacking Group Is Behind JBS Cyber Attack: Sources

Jun 2 2021 // A notorious Russia-linked hacking group is behind the cyber attack against JBS SA, according to four people familiar with the assault who were not authorized to speak publicly on the matter. The cyber gang goes by the name...

Russian Spy Agency SVR Responsible for SolarWinds Hack: White House

Apr 16 2021 // The White House said in a statement on Thursday that Russia’s foreign intelligence service, known as the SVR, was responsible for the SolarWinds hack, which led to the compromise of nine federal agencies and hundreds...

Russia Vulnerable to Climate Change, Causing Expensive Natural Disasters

Apr 14 2021 // The residents of Irkutsk, one of Russia’s coldest regions, are used to harsh winters. But when the temperature dropped to negative 60 degrees Celsius (-76 Fahrenheit) last January, even they had to submit to the...

Update – Italy’s Generali Eyes €2 Billion Acquisition in Russia: Source

Mar 17 2021 // MILAN – Italy’s top insurer Generali is considering an acquisition in Russia worth about 2 billion euros ($2.4 billion), although the project is still at a very early stage, a source close to the situation said on...

China’s Microsoft Hack, Russia’s SolarWinds Attack Threaten to Overwhelm U.S.

Mar 10 2021 // China’s global attack on Microsoft’s popular email software revealed last week and an equally sprawling Russian attack discovered three months ago have created a two-front war that threatens to overwhelm...

Russian Mining Giant Nornickel Fined $2 Billion for Huge Arctic Fuel Spill

Feb 5 2021 // MOSCOW – Russian mining giant Norilsk Nickel was fined $2 billion on Friday for the damage caused by a huge fuel spill last year in the country’s worst environmental disaster in the Arctic.The leakage in May of...

Future of Russia’s Nord Stream 2 Pipeline Looks Increasingly Uncertain

Jan 20 2021 // The future of Nord Stream 2 looks increasingly uncertain as the U.S. ramped up pressure on the project with new sanctions, and companies walked away from the controversial Russian gas link.The new sanctions come just days...

Zurich Insurance to Stop Insuring Russia’s Nord Stream 2 Project: Sources

Jan 19 2021 // Zurich Insurance Group will drop out of Russia’s Nord Stream 2 project in the face of looming U.S. sanctions against European companies that support construction of the $11 billion gas pipeline, two sources familiar...