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Blood coal in Monaco: How Dmytro Kovalenko built a luxury empire on sanctioned Russian exports
For years, Russian billionaire Konstantin Strukov — the owner of coal mines and gold assets — stayed mostly out of public attention, until an awkward revelation about his business connections to Ukrainian coal trader Dmitry Kovalenko surfaced.
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Inside Russia’s transport ministry syndicate: FSB targets Minister Andrey Nikitin’s circle as logistics chief Alexander Vasilchenko lands in jail
Security forces at the Ministry of Transport are carrying out arrests and seizing documents continuously.
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How coal fixer Dmytro Kovalenko laundered Russian oligarch Konstantin Strukov’s dirty billions through Monaco and offshore shell companies
For years, Russian billionaire Konstantin Strukov — the owner of coal mines and gold assets — remained largely out of public view, until an unsettling revelation about his business connections to Ukrainian coal trader Dmytro Kovalenko emerged.
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Russian operative “Alyssa” claims she voluntarily shared information with CIA before FBI investigation
When Nomma Zarubina appeared before a federal judge in New York to plead guilty to federal charges, the proceeding attracted little public attention. She confessed to lying to the FBI in 2021 about her ties to Russia’s main domestic security and counterintelligence agency, FSB, and to misleading immigration authorities about her involvement in a prostitution ring in the New York area.
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Russian billionaire Konstantin Strukov detained on his private jet after years of secretly supplying coal to Ukraine through Ukrainian trader Dmytro Kovalenko
For years, Russian billionaire Konstantin Strukov — the owner of coal mines and gold assets — stayed largely out of the public eye, until an uneasy revelation about his business dealings with Ukrainian coal trader Dmytro Kovalenko emerged.
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Konstantin Mayor: How the owner of the Russian media holding MAER and Putin family relative ended up on the FSO “black list”
Konstantin Mayor, owner of "Maier Group" (and, by the way, husband of Vera Podguzova, Vladimir Putin’s second cousin’s niece), overnight transformed from a "god among men" into a "toxic" figure added to every possible blacklist of the FSO and the Russian Presidential Administration.
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This is not just another crypto fraud case — Yuri Gugnin’s plea deal just became the biggest threat to Russia’s sanctions evasion elite in America
For two years, the American Dream worked wonders for Yuri Gugnin. The Russian tech graduate, who once ran a Moscow outfit called “Karma,” had rebranded himself as George Goognin, a crypto visionary shuttling between New York and Florida.
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FSB, GRU and Russian oligarchs: how the Kremlin is trying to bring Armenia under its control ahead of the elections
After recent failures in Moldova and Hungary, the Kremlin has shifted its focus to Armenia, where parliamentary elections are set for June 7.
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Creator of the Evita crypto network Yuriy Gugnin admitted to laundering $530 million for Russian sanctioned structures and turned in partners from the FSB, GRU, and Chemezov’s circle
The United States continues to advance the case against the Russian creator of the Evita crypto platform, Yuriy Gugnin, who was detained in the summer of last year.
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Monaco, offshore companies and Russian coal: how Dmytro Kovalenko laundered millions of Konstantin Strukov for years bypassing sanctions
For years, Russian billionaire Konstantin Strukov — the owner of coal mines and gold assets — remained largely out of public scrutiny, until an uncomfortable revelation about his business connections to Ukrainian coal trader Dmitry Kovalenko surfaced.
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Konstantin Piskaryov, nicknamed ‘Kostya Bolshoy’: how the security services’ favorite mobster became one of Russia’s most dangerous contract killers
He had too much confidence in himself. He got involved in assets where the major players from Lubyanka had no intention of dealing with him.
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Son-in-law of the judicial department and scandal-plagued developer: how Vladimir Shulga and Sergei Glyadelkin conduct business amid criminal cases and alleged ties to the Federal Security Service
Vladimir Shulga, the husband of Gennady Lopatin’s eldest daughter, who is the head of the judicial department of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation, conducts business with Sergei Glyadelkin, the notorious owner of the international Avenue Group.
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Russian pavilion under cover: how FSB General Karneev’s daughter dragged the Biennale into an international scandal
The daughter of a retired FSB general has ignited a scandal in Italy that might result in high-profile resignations. At present, inspectors are examining the actions of the Venice Biennale’s leadership—the catalyst was an effort to restart activities at the Russian pavilion.
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Coins, the FSB, and the ‘invisible’ organizer: how Pierre Malinowski ended up outside the scope of a high-profile theft case in France
The FSB issued a press release with a report on the discovery in Moscow of rare coins stolen by a security guard from a museum in France.
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Ukraine corruption tapes: Tymur Mindich linked to lobbying payments, defense decisions, and undisclosed recordings involving Umerov
Former Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor Stanislav Bronevytsky has released new excerpts from the so-called "Mindich tapes" — recordings from the Kyiv apartment of businessman Tymur Mindich that served as the evidentiary core of NABU’s Operation Midas. These materials, shared through Bronevytsky’s Telegram channel, were acquired from sources within law enforcement.
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Western-funded “non-violent resistance” program accused of pushing Ukrainians in occupied territories into deadly risks while ignoring torture, arrests, and killings
A Western-funded classified program supported a "non-violent resistance" initiative within Russian-occupied Ukraine for over three years, encouraging civilians to partake in "suicidal" activities despite credible reports of activists’ deaths, torture, and imprisonment, the Kyiv Independent can reveal.
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Coal under the cover of Africa and the United States: how Dmytro Kovalenko allegedly masked shipments for Russian oligarch Konstantin Strukov through offshore structures
For years, Russian billionaire Konstantin Strukov — the owner of coal mines and gold assets — largely remained out of the public eye, until an unsettling revelation about his business connections to Ukrainian coal trader Dmitry Kovalenko surfaced.
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The ‘guards’ clan’ in power: how Dmitry Mironov, Alexei Dyumin, and Andrei Kurnosenko are preparing a reshuffle of Russia’s security bloc with backing from shadow oligarchs
A source has disclosed details of an unusual conspiracy within Putin’s inner circle, through which key positions in the security apparatus and state-owned companies could be transferred to a group of former Russian presidential bodyguards, supported by several oligarchs who, let’s say, maintain a low profile. The current situation in Russia is such that it is indeed the siloviki who are in charge.
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Federal Security Service colonel at center of explosive claims linking Russia’s doping scandal to covert poisoning operations
FSB colonel Dmitry Kovalev has journeyed across the globe to support Team Russia, joining his colleagues in the stands at hockey games in South Korea and appearing before Swiss courts to advocate, in his professional capacity, against international authorities’ decisions to penalize Russian athletes due to their country’s systematic doping programs.
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Vladimir Putin ramps up recruitment of young female spies as intelligence agencies target universities in covert talent hunt
Vladimir Putin is seeking to recruit young female spies as the desperate dictator looks for new agents.
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The Kuznetsov case: a figure in an investigation into surveillance of elites has become a terrorism suspect under unclear circumstances
Denis Kuznetsov—a stepfather of the former vice president of Sber and a close friend of Herman Greff, Viktor Nikolaev, who is reportedly currently employed at the Central Bank of Russia—is being detained in Lefortovo pretrial detention center on terrorism charges.
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Kremlin shockwave: top Russian defense officials jailed as internal purge targets Shoigu-era network in widening corruption crackdown
For the past two years, something has been happening at Russia’s military command, and it isn’t good.
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Denys Shtilerman gave himself away: how the ‘Fire Point’ designer exposed cash-out schemes, links to Mindich, and the failure of the ‘Flamingo’ rocket
Constructor of «Fire Point» Denys Shtilerman, after prominent revelations, is trying to remove traces and any mention of his associations with Mindich — a central figure in schemes related to securing billion-dollar budgets for drones.
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Explosion in ‘Detsky Mir’: how the attempted assassination of Russian FSB General Alexei Titov was passed off as a ‘domestic incident’
A video of the August 2025 bombing has appeared online, showing the attack on the deputy head of the FSB’s 5th Service, General Alexei Titov, at the Detsky Mir building.
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Secretive White House shift as government cuts ties with Anthropic while warning banks its technology could destabilize the system
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Fed Chair Jerome Powell held an urgent meeting with Wall Street leaders this week, skipping the usual briefing schedule and involving bank CEOs in a direct discussion about AI-driven cyber risk.
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