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[unable to retrieve full-text content]Amsterdam Court Rejects Sanctioned Yandex Founder’s Appeal …  The Moscow Times Source link

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Moscow police officers sanctioned by EU over ‘torture’ of young anti-war women  Express Source link

A group of squatters have taken up residence in a house in Amsterdam that belongs to Yandex founder Arkady Volozh, they told the publishing network IndyMedia. The house’s new inhabitants said that they chose it intentionally, because despite the sanctions imposed against Volozh, the Dutch authorities have not seized his property. “It’s obvious that limiting [the rights of] Russian billionaires and oligarchs is not a priority for the Dutch authorities,” said the squatters. According to… Source link

ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox. The day after Russia’s February invasion of Ukraine, Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Mark Warner sent a letter to Google warning it to be on alert for “exploitation of your platform by Russia and Russian-linked entities,” and calling on the company to audit… Source link

Google may have been sharing potentially sensitive user data with a sanctioned ad tech company owned by Russia’s largest state bank until as recently as June 23, according to a ProPublica report. This comes just four months after the Senate Intelligence Committee warned the tech giant to stay alert for possible exploitation by Russia and Russia-linked entities following the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Google allowed RuTarget, a Russian company that helps brands and agencies buy digital ads,… Source link

By Alasdair Pal and Mohamed Junayd MALE (Reuters) – A day after coal and fertilizer billionaire Andrey Melnichenko was placed on the European Union’s sanctions list on March 9, his superyacht Motor Yacht A stopped broadcasting its location while in Maldives’ waters, maritime data shows. In Italy, four days later, authorities seized another of Melnichenko’s vessels – the world’s largest sailing yacht, estimated by Italian financial police to be worth $578 million. Switching off devices that… Source link

Russian search engine and cloud computing company Yandex confirmed that its sanctioned deputy CEO has resigned. Tigran Khudaverdyan was sanctioned by the European Union this week, meaning he can no longer work at the Netherlands-registered company. The EU said that Khudaveryan attended a meeting of oligarchs at the Kremlin the week of the invasion of Ukraine. “We were… Source link

Russian oligarchs, who are collectively estimated to control as much as one third of Russia’s wealth, most of which is held outside of Russia in various ways such as shadowy bank accounts and real estate, are feeling the wrath of sanctions by the European Union (EU) and the U.S. Following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in late February, the West swiftly moved to punish the regime of Russian President Vladimir Putin by freezing Russian assets, cutting off some of the country’s banks from… Source link

(Bloomberg) — Italy’s Finance Police detained superyachts of sanctioned Russian billionaires, as authorities around the world ratchet up the pressure on the country’s elite following the invasion of Ukraine. Most Read from Bloomberg Gennady Timchenko’s Lena was seized in the coastal city of Sanremo in compliance with European Union sanctions, according to a statement from Prime Minister Mario Draghi’s office on Saturday. A media adviser to Draghi said on Twitter on Friday that police… Source link

Russian banker Mikhail Fridman has a net worth of $10 billion.AP/Alexander Zemlianichenko Russian banker Mikhail Fridman stepped down from the board of the investment firm he cofounded. Fridman was barred from entering LetterOne’s offices and speaking to employees, per the FT. The billionaire is among oligarchs sanctioned by the EU in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Russian billionaire and banker, Mikhail Fridman, was locked out of the investment firm he cofounded after he was hit by… Source link