Biggest unsolved mystery: How rich is Russian President Vladimir Putin? Experts say he owns a whopping amount of fortune and may own this much moneyBiggest unsolved mystery: How rich is Russian President Vladimir Putin? Experts say he owns a whopping amount of fortune and may own this m...
25 Nov, 2024, 09.09 PM IST
Under Putin, the uber-wealthy Russians known as 'oligarchs' are still rich but far less powerfulThe article discusses how the dynamics of power and influence have shifted among Russia's ultra-wealthy, commonly referred to as "oligarchs...
06 Dec, 2023, 01.10 PM IST
Pavel Antov: The story of the Russian 'Sausage King' who met his end in Odisha's RayagadaMeat tycoon, 65-year-old Pavel Antov, shortly following his birthday, allegedly jumped to his death from the third floor of the hotel in so...
08 Jan, 2023, 11.31 AM IST
Putin's rumoured girlfriend hit with latest US sanctionsThe Treasury Department said Tuesday that the government has frozen the visa of Alina Kabaeva, an Olympic gymnast in her youth and former m...
03 Aug, 2022, 07.27 AM IST
Four G7 powers impose gold export ban on RussiaThe joint action taken by Britain, Canada, Japan and the United States, "will directly hit Russian oligarchs and strike at the heart of (Pr...
26 Jun, 2022, 01.24 PM IST
UK sanctions Russian separatists, including 'PM', 'Chair' of Donetsk and Luhansk, over Ukraine conflictThe move comes ahead of secondary legislation in the UK Parliament on Thursday, which will ban the import of iron and steel products as wel...
13 Apr, 2022, 07.51 PM IST
Britain and European Union coordinate over more Russian sanctionsThe UK government said that, in coordination with the EU, it is sanctioning "178 Russian separatists" in eastern Ukraine, in addition to si...
13 Apr, 2022, 07.10 PM IST
Mystery yacht 'Scheherazade', believed to be Vladimir Putin's pleasure boat, docked in TuscanyIt has been parked for maintenance work at The Italian Sea Group's shipyard for several months.
24 Mar, 2022, 06.01 PM IST
UK warns against post-Ukraine reset with Putin"There are some around the world... who say that we're better off making accommodations with tyranny... I believe they are profoundly wrong...
19 Mar, 2022, 07.14 PM IST
UK fears 'more extreme' Russian actions in UkraineBritain has recently targeted high-profile oligarchs, including Chelsea Football Club owner Roman Abramovich.
19 Mar, 2022, 03.59 PM IST
Meet Russia's oligarchs, a group of men who won't be toppling Putin anytime soonWho are these oligarchs, and what is their relationship with Putin? And more importantly, will eroding their wealth do anything to end the ...
13 Mar, 2022, 12.49 AM IST
Chelsea sale plans on hold after UK freezes assets of owner Roman AbramovichIn total Britain said the seven figures added to the sanctions list because of their connections to Russian President Vladimir Putin had a ...
10 Mar, 2022, 04.11 PM IST
US to impose new sanctions on Russian oligarchs, including travel ban: SourceThe sanctions will match earlier EU measures against Russia's wealthiest figures and expand them to include a travel ban to the United Stat...
03 Mar, 2022, 10.31 PM IST
Britain could change law to make it easier to sanction Russian oligarchsBritain has so far imposed sanctions on nine wealthy Russians since Putin invaded Ukraine and Prime Minister Boris Johnson has been accused...
03 Mar, 2022, 07.11 PM IST
European Union slaps 26 additional Russians with sanctionsThe bloc had already imposed an asset freeze on President Vladimir Putin and Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov. No travel ban was imposed to a...
01 Mar, 2022, 11.07 AM IST
Britain plans to broaden scope of sanctions it could apply to RussiaWith tens of thousands of Russian troops massed near the Ukrainian border, Truss has previously refused to rule out personal sanctions agai...
31 Jan, 2022, 09.06 AM IST
- Putin may use credit squeeze as a tool to ‘destroy’ oligarchs
Vladimir Putin came to power in 2000 vowing to destroy Russia’s oligarchs ‘as a class’. Within two years, he’d driven two into exile and im...
18 Oct, 2008, 02.19 AM IST