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Russia Oil Hitting $60 Cap Adds to Crude-Oil Buyers’ Banking, Shipping Woes

Jul 14 2023 // A top buyer of Russian oil is bracing for trading trouble as the price of Urals, the country’s main export grade, breaks through a $60-a-barrel cap set by Western nations to curb Moscow’s revenue.India and...

Russia’s Flagship Crude Oil Surpasses G-7 Price Cap in Blow to Western Sanctions

Jul 13 2023 // Russia’s flagship Urals crude oil breached a price cap set by the Group of Seven, a blow to western sanctions efforts and arguably an economic win for Moscow.According to price reporting agency Argus Media, Urals...

Russian Hackers Lured Embassy Workers in Ukraine With Fake Used-Car Advert

Jul 12 2023 // Hackers suspected of working for Russia’s foreign intelligence agency targeted dozens of diplomats at embassies in Ukraine with a fake used car advert in a bid to break into their computers, according to a...

Russia-Linked Oil Tanker Fleet Vanishes Even Faster Than It Grew

Jul 11 2023 // A fleet of tankers that sprouted up out of nowhere to keep Russia’s oil moving has disbanded even faster than it emerged, underscoring the challenges involved in keeping track of who’s helping Moscow to get its...

Aviation Lessors Fight to Stop Insurance Dispute Hearings in Russia

Jul 10 2023 // More than 40 aviation leasing firms, locked in a battle with insurers over who should bear up to $10 billion in costs for 400 jets stuck in Russia, are urging the High Court to allow a reinsurance dispute to be heard in...

Russia’s Aging, Dark Fleet of Oil Tankers Gets Infusion of Newer Ships

Jul 3 2023 // An armada of tankers ferrying sanctioned oil around the globe is starting to get younger, bucking a months-long trend of using the world’s oldest and most dangerous vessels.Shortly after President Vladimir...

Russia’s Arctic Shipping Dream Stumbles on Small Aging Fleet

Jun 28 2023 // Russia will struggle to meet its strategic goal of more than quadrupling Arctic sea shipments by the end of the decade as the nation cannot increase and upgrade its small, aging ice fleet fast enough, according to the...

Russia-Aligned Hackers Pose Threat to Canada Energy Sector, Spy Agency Says

Jun 23 2023 // Russia-aligned hackers could seek to disrupt Canada’s powerful oil and natural gas sector, especially since Ottawa is a strong backer of Ukraine, a Canadian spy agency said on Wednesday.The Communications Security...

PwC Probes Security Incident Tied to Russian-Speaking Clop Cyber Gang

Jun 23 2023 // A criminal hacking gang has added more names to its lists of alleged victims from a recent campaign that exploited a vulnerability in a popular file-transfer product.The group, known as Clop, threatened to post internal...

Russia Is Likely to Quit Black Sea Grain Deal in July: Ukraine Envoy

Jun 22 2023 // Russia is 99.9% certain to quit a U.N.-brokered deal on the safe wartime passage of Black Sea grain next month because it no longer needs Ukrainian ports to export ammonia, a senior Ukrainian diplomat said.The United...

What Is Russia’s Problem With the Black Sea Grain Deal?

Jun 19 2023 // President Vladimir Putin said this month that Russia was considering withdrawing from the Black Sea grain deal as he accused the West of cheating Moscow because it still faced obstacles getting its own agricultural goods...

Russia Remains Dissatisfied With Black Sea Grain Deal After UN Talks

Jun 12 2023 // Russia is still not satisfied with how a Black Sea grain deal is being implemented, Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Vershinin said on Saturday after meeting senior U.N. trade officials a day earlier, the TASS news agency...

Russian President Putin Signs Law Creating Eurasian Reinsurance Company

Jun 9 2023 // The Kremlin announced that Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a law to ratify the creation of the Eurasian Reinsurance Co.The Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) agreed in October 2022 to form the company, which is...

Russia-Linked Hackers Give Victims a Week to Open Ransom Negotiations

Jun 8 2023 // A Russian-speaking criminal cyber gang gave victims including British Airways and the BBC a week to start ransom negotiations after it exploited a vulnerability in an encrypted file-sharing software used by many...

Russia Accuses U.S. Intelligence of Hacking Thousands of iPhones

Jun 5 2023 // Russia’s main security service accused a US intelligence agency of hacking several thousand iPhones, including devices belonging to Russian nationals and others linked to diplomatic missions and embassies in the...

Rise in Fires, Ukraine-Russia Fallout Top Concerns for Shipping Industry: Allianz Report

Jun 2 2023 // The maritime sector experienced fewer total losses of vessels in 2022 while the number of shipping incidents remained relatively consistent, according to a recent report.Allianz Global Corporate & Specialty (AGCS)...

Reuters: Lloyd’s Register Drops Ships of Top Indian Carrier of Russian Oil

May 26 2023 // Lloyd’s Register has told India’s Gatik Ship Management, which has become a major carrier of Russian oil since the Ukraine war, that it will withdraw certification of 21 of its vessels by June 3, the maritime...

US Imposes Sanctions on Hundreds of Targets in Fresh Russia Action

May 19 2023 // The United States and its partners on Friday announced new penalties aimed at punishing Russia for its invasion of Ukraine, intensifying what is already one of the harshest sanctions efforts ever implemented.Washington...

G-7 Steps Up Russia Sanctions, Seeks to Cut China Trade Dependency

May 19 2023 // Leaders of the world’s richest democracies agreed on Friday to stiffen sanctions against Russia, while a draft communique to be issued after their talks in the Japanese city of Hiroshima stressed the need to reduce...

Posing as Islamists, Russian Hackers Take Aim at Sweden

May 18 2023 // Since February, a mysterious hacker group calling itself Anonymous Sudan has targeted dozens of Swedish airports, hospitals and banks with distributed denial-of-service attacks, ostensibly in response to the burning of a...