All the headlines from our Russia Topic Page, ordered by recency.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...