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Europe News

How EU sanctions won't stop Putin getting six more years in power

President Vladimir Putin is all but guaranteed to win six more years of power in Russia’s upcoming elections. Opponents - many of them behind bars, exiled abroad, or dead - say EU officials must intensify their efforts to hit Moscow where it hurts.

15/03/2024

Culture news

Russian billionaire loses art fraud lawsuit against Sotheby's

The Russian oligarch alleged that Sotheby's conspired with an art dealer in a scheme involving high-profile artworks, including Leonardo da Vinci's "Salvator Mundi", which later became the most expensive painting ever sold.

31/01/2024

Culture news

Russian oligarch sues Sotheby’s after paying 'inflated prices' for art

Russian billionaire Dmitry Rybolovlev, owner of football club AS Monaco, is suing auction house Sotheby’s for allegedly helping an art dealer cheat him out of tens of millions of euros.

08/01/2024

Business

Financial crime and Russian oligarchs: How Cyprus vows to crackdown

The Cypriot president has reached out to an unnamed 'third country' to help with investigations into alleged evasions of sanctions against Russia by oligarchs.

21/11/2023

Business

EU Russian sanctions stymied by complexity, poor enforcement

Economic punishments for the Ukraine invasion are still too easy to avoid, some lawmakers say.

20/11/2023

Business

Russian oligarch Kuzmichev detained in France over sanctions probe

Considered by the EU to be one of Russia's most influential people, Alexey Kuzmichev has been detained by French police for questioning.

31/10/2023

Russia

Who was Yevgeny Prigozhin: Criminal, cook, troll and troublemaker

Who was Yevgeny Prigozhin: Criminal, cook, troll and troublemaker

24/08/2023

Russia

Do Russian oligarchs condemning the war make any difference for Putin?

Only a handful of Russian oligarchs have spoken out against the invasion of Ukraine since February 2022. Has their public condemnation of the war reached the Russian public, and the Kremlin?

16/08/2023

Russia

Racist or revolutionary: The complex legacy of Alexei Navalny

Controversy surrounds some of what the Russian opposition leader - currently imprisoned in Moscow - has said in the past.

07/07/2023

France

EU sanctions 'failing' as Kremlin wives live lavishly in Europe

The wife of Russia's deputy defence minister is reportedly enjoying a luxurious life in Europe, complete with holidays in southern France and Rolls-Royces.

26/04/2023

India

Indian authorities open investigation into Russian tycoon's death

This latest death is one in a series of several high-profile Russian tycoons who have died in unusual circumstances this past year.

27/12/2022

Russia

List of oligarchs and Putin critics' suspicious deaths since war began

A growing number of high-profile Russians have died under strange circumstances ever since President Vladimir Putin came to power.

22/09/2022

Europe News

Don't negotiate with 'bandit' Putin, warns ex-oligarch

Mikhail Khodorkovsky told Euronews the Ukraine war will end on the battlefield because "there is no alternative."

21/06/2022

Fiji

US announces seizure of Russian oligarch's superyacht in Fiji

A judge in Fiji earlier in the week permitted U.S. authorities to seize the yacht Amadea.

05/05/2022

Fiji

Confusion over which Russian oligarch owns Fiji luxury yacht

A judge in the capital Suva must rule between two different oligarchs to determine whether the yacht can be seized — as only one of them is subject to sanctions.

28/04/2022

Travel News

Turkey welcomes Abramovich's €900m superyacht into Bodrum harbour

In an effort to escape Western economic sanctions, many of Russian's wealthiest individuals are fleeing to this little-known Turkish city.

22/03/2022