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Alleged Russian Hacker Charged in $200 Million Ransomware Spree

May 17 2023 // A Russian man was charged by US authorities in connection with his alleged role with multiple ransomware gangs that attacked hospitals, schools and police departments.Mikhail Pavlovich Matveev, who was known online as...

Last Ship Leaves Ukraine Port With Fate of Black Sea Grain Deal in Russia’s Hands

May 17 2023 // The last ship left a port in Ukraine on Wednesday under a deal allowing the safe Black Sea export of Ukraine grain a day before Russia could quit the pact over obstacles to its grain and fertilizer exports.The DSM Capella...

Posing as Islamists, Russian Hackers Take Aim at Sweden

May 15 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...

No Quick Deal in Sight as EU Countries Start Talks on New Russia Sanctions

May 10 2023 // European Union states were holding a first discussion on Wednesday on proposed new sanctions over Russia’s war in Ukraine that would target Chinese and Iranian firms and allow export curbs on third countries for...

U.S., Allies Dismantle 20-Year Russian Malware Spying Operation

May 10 2023 // The US and allied countries have disrupted a wide-ranging Russian hacking operation that spied on its adversaries over some 20 years, the Justice Department announced.Law enforcement agencies penetrated a global network of...

Russian Carmaker GAZ Files Third Lawsuit Against Volkswagen

May 8 2023 // Russian carmaker GAZ has filed a lawsuit worth 15.6 billion roubles ($200.5 million) against Volkswagen, court records show, adding to two others filed earlier this year. The lawsuit, details of which have not been...

Rising Oil Prices Complicate Russian Price Cap Checks for Insurers

Apr 28 2023 // Key figures in the insurance industry said rising Russian oil prices are making it harder for them to know if they can lawfully cover Russian cargoes.Since December, buyers of Russian crude oil have only been allowed to...

Ship Insurers Warn of Russian Oil Price Cap Evasion, Risks of Growing ‘Dark Fleet’

Apr 27 2023 // A rise in spot prices for Russian crude oil to above the $60 per barrel cap imposed by western powers has made ship insurers even more nervous of running foul of the rules as they are unable to independently track the...

Russia’s Lavrov Blames West for Deadlock Over Future of Black Sea Grain Deal

Apr 26 2023 // Moscow has seen “practically no results” from a pact with the United Nations that aimed to help Russia’s grain and fertilizer exports and blamed Western countries for creating a deadlock, Foreign Minister...

Russia’s Medvedev Says G-7 Export Ban Could Trigger Black Sea Grain Deal Exit

Apr 24 2023 // Moscow may retaliate if Group of Seven countries proceed with a total ban on most exports to Russia by withdrawing from the safe-transit deal that allows Ukraine to ship grains from Black Sea ports, said Dmitry Medvedev,...

Tanker Company Shipping Russian Oil Loses Insurance on G-7 Price Cap

Apr 21 2023 // An oil tanker company heavily involved in moving Russian oil lost industry standard insurance for its fleet after falling foul of a Group of Seven price cap relating to the transportation of the nation’s...

Lukoil Buys Into AIG’s Former Russian Subsidiary

Apr 20 2023 // Russia’s second-largest oil producer Lukoil has bought into insurance company GARDIA, a former subsidiary of AIG, one of the world’s biggest commercial insurers, GARDIA said earlier this week.(Editor’s...

Cyber Firm Group-IB Finalizes Exit From Russia to Spur Global Expansion Ambitions

Apr 20 2023 // Cybersecurity company Group-IB has finalized its exit from Russia, the group said on Thursday, cutting ties with its original market in an effort to spur its global expansion ambitions.Punitive Western sanctions against...

Russian Hackers Target Western Critical Infrastructure, UK Warns

Apr 19 2023 // The UK government’s cyber defense agency warned on Wednesday of an emerging threat to Western critical national infrastructure posed by hackers sympathetic to Russia and its war on Ukraine.Russia-aligned...

Russia’s Largest Cargo Airline Ordered to Pay Aircraft Lessor BOC Aviation $406.2M

Apr 12 2023 // /A U.S. judge on Tuesday ordered Russia’s largest cargo airline to pay aircraft lessor BOC Aviation Ltd. $406.2 million after being declared in default on leases for three Boeing 747-8 freighters following...

Russia Threatens to Bypass UN-Brokered Grain Deal, Cites Insurance as Barrier

Apr 10 2023 // Russia on Friday threatened to bypass the UN-brokered grain deal unless obstacles to its agricultural exports were removed, while talks in Turkey agreed removing barriers was a necessary condition to extending the...

Russia’s GAZ Group Files $348M Suit Against Volkswagen

Apr 10 2023 // The Gorky Automobile Plant, part of Russia’s GAZ Group which was contracted to assemble cars for Volkswagen, has filed a lawsuit to recover 28.4 billion roubles ($348 million) from the German automaker, court records...

Western Curbs on Russian Oil Products Redraw Global Energy Shipping Patterns

Apr 6 2023 // Global fuel suppliers are turning to longer and costlier routes that produce more carbon emissions to move their diesel and other products as Western restrictions on Russian cargoes have reshuffled global energy shipping...

Russia Still Uses Western Insurance for Half of Tanker Fleet That Exports Its Oil

Mar 30 2023 // Russia still relies on Western insurers to cover more than half of the tanker fleet that exports its oil, according to data compiled by Bloomberg, and the country’s energy officials are voicing concerns about the...

Russia Has Successfully Rerouted Oil Exports Hit by Western Embargo: Energy Minister

Mar 28 2023 // Russia has successfully redirected all its crude oil exports affected by Western sanctions over Ukraine to “friendly” countries, Energy Minister Nikolai Shulginov said on Tuesday, while still a decline in oil...