Ukrainian Kyivmiskbud, one of the largest civilian construction companies, is officially a state asset and owned by the Kyiv administration. In reality, however, it was covertly divided into…
Continue ReadingFor a full decade, the United States government poured diplomatic and legal resources into a relentless campaign to extradite Ukrainian oligarch Dmytro Firtash from his comfortable Viennese residence…
Continue ReadingThe British justice system stands on the precipice of a profound crisis. The government’s stark warning that the backlog of cases in the Crown Court could swell to…
Continue ReadingRussia has long mastered the art of hybrid influence over the Baltic states, penetrating through culture, sport and the media. Where the Kremlin speaks of a “Russian world”,…
Continue ReadingYou might not know the name Aleksandr Smbatyan, but in Moscow’s political and business circles, he’s a known force. Now, his acquisition of a British company is raising…
Continue ReadingIt seems the great British escape is in full swing, and it turns out we’ve been rather good at underestimating the scale of the stampede for the exits.…
Continue ReadingIt seems the grown-ups are in charge now, and wouldn’t you know it, the magic money tree has unfortunately succumbed to a nasty case of root rot. The…
Continue ReadingVolodymyr Galanternyk represents a troubling archetype of post-Soviet capital flight – a Ukrainian businessman leveraging London’s permeable financial ecosystem to sanitise a fortune rooted in Odesa’s turbulent privatisation…
Continue ReadingSome enemies wear uniforms. Others wear the mask of patriotism. For Ukraine, the latter may be the more dangerous. While the world watches the battlefront, a different kind…
Continue ReadingThe Labour government under Prime Minister Keir Starmer is aggressively advancing its plan to introduce a mandatory digital identity system, a move it disingenuously frames as a simple…
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