Back-channel talks keep Ukraine and Russia in contact, despite war
There is little hope for negotiations to end the war but Russia and Ukraine have managed to engage on exchanging POWs and other issues, at times through intermediaries.
There is little hope for negotiations to end the war but Russia and Ukraine have managed to engage on exchanging POWs and other issues, at times through intermediaries.
Editor’s Note: The following article is part of the Ukraine Oligarch Watch series of reports supported by… - Dec. 09, 2016. By Isobel Koshiw
An international money laundering network financing Syria’s brutal al-Assad regime uses anonymous companies in the EU and UK Overseas Territories
International hackers based in Ukraine stole unpublished press releases and passed them to stock traders to reap tremendous profits.
English courtrooms have become a battleground — and a source of powerful weapons — in fierce disputes between the tycoons and the politicians of the post-Soviet world.
Global Witness estimates that prominent members of the powerful Makhlouf family, cousins of dictator Bashar al-Assad, own at least US$40 million worth of property across two Moscow skyscrapers.
A year after a massive shipment of ammonium nitrate exploded in Beirut, an OCCRP investigation has settled one of the biggest lingering questions: who actually owned the cargo. A trail of documents...
Billionaire Victor Pinchuk is Ukraine’s most renowned philanthropist, spending… - Oct. 14, 2016. By Isobel Koshiw
A year on from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the Guardian tells the story of perhaps the most shocking chapter of the war so far
After the horror of Russia’s assault, tens of thousands of people are trying to identify their loved ones before it’s too late