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On the morning of September 12, an Airbus A320 passenger plane flying from Sochi to Omsk made an emergency landing in a field near Novosibirsk. The probable cause of the incident is a failure of the hydraulic system. Earlier, Airbus refused to cooperate with Russian airlines, which created difficulties in aircraft maintenance. According to the […]
The Dutch brewing giant Heineken has sold its Russian assets to Arnest, a company that produces household goods in Russia, including dichlorvos. According to the Russian Forbes, the deal was concluded for a symbolic price of 1 euro, but obliges the buyer to repay the debt of Heineken’s Russian business worth 100 million euros. Heineken […]
The National Agency for the Prevention of Corruption (NAPC) has added the Chinese group of companies Alibaba Group Holding Limited to the list of international sponsors of war. This was reported on the NACP website. It is noted that the company still operates in Russia and also provides its platforms for the sale of goods […]
A year and a half after the start of the Russian invasion, the United States added the founders of Alfa Group, Peter Aven and Mikhail Fridman, to the sanctions list. Friedman and Aven do not live in Russia, although they have long been on the EU and British sanctions lists, which they are trying to […]
Georgia has banned Belarus’ state-owned airline Belavia from flying to its airports using American Boeing aircraft due to US sanctions, the Georgian Civil Aviation Authority said. This is how the Georgian aviation regulator commented on the new sanctions against Belavia announced by the US Treasury Department on August 9. The Georgian Civil Aviation Authority said […]
In 2023 alone, Russian airlines were able to obtain $171 million worth of aircraft parts for foreign planes despite Western sanctions, Russian media reports. The source obtained classified customs statistics, which made it possible to estimate imports to Russia in real time. Four major Russian airlines, Aeroflot, S7 Airlines, Rossiya, and Pobeda, imported $110 million […]
The Japanese government has banned the supply of cars with an internal combustion engine capacity of more than 1.9 liters to Russia. This was stated by the Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry Yasutoshi Nishimura, UNN reports citing the press service of the ministry. Also banned from importation into Russia are tires for commercial vehicles […]
The European Union has extended economic sanctions against Russia, which were imposed in response to its aggression against Ukraine. The sanctions will remain in effect for at least another six months – until January 31, 2024. This is reported on the website of the EU Council. European sanctions against Russia include restrictions in the areas […]
Russian businessman Oleg Tinkov was placed under British sanctions a month after the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. On July 20, the United Kingdom lifted personal sanctions imposed on Russian businessman and Tinkoff Bank founder Oleg Tinkov, the British government’s website reports. According to the British government’s document, sanctions against Tinkov, which include […]
According to the latest annual report of the Bank of Italy’s Anti-Money Laundering Unit (UIF), the updated amount of frozen assets is about EUR 2 billion as of the end of June. As a result of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine last year, Italy decided to freeze the assets of Russian oligarchs worth approximately 2 billion […]