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17 October 2024
Dark Water
How Putin's shadow fleet is illegally dumping oil across the globe
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14 September 2024
UAE ‘used Russian mercenary group to arm Sudan rebels’
Wagner, renamed Africa Corps after the death of its leader Yevgeny Prigozhin last year, ‘shipped arms from Dubai’ to militants accused of war crimes in Darfur
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2 March 2023
Russian farming bank in sanctions row quietly funded oil deals
Documents reveal state agriculture lender’s key role in exporting Russian oil, contradicting Kremlin claims
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27 November 2022
Conservative mega-donor was ‘screen’ for Kremlin oil trades
Billionaire’s companies helped Rosneft trade with sanction-hit Venezuela and have continued to handle Russian oil since the outbreak of war in Ukraine
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30 June 2022
The Man Behind the Curtain
Rainer Sonntag rode a wave of violence to become one of Germany’s leading neo-Nazis. He was also a communist spy—and worked for Vladimir Putin
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27 March 2022
Trafigura ships Russian oil at prewar levels as competitors scale back
Trafigura is continuing to ship Russian oil at prewar levels as its competitors scale back deliveries
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3 March 2022
Russian football club under US sanctions operates through UK
An elite Russian football club under US sanctions is partly controlled through a British company
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12 December 2018
‘Russia is the rock’ the yellow vests and France’s far right
The anger is real. But is outside influence aggravating France's popular revolt?
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6 December 2018
Ural Properties: The company Arron Banks doesn’t want you to know about
Brexit backer sought to conceal details of flats overlooking Portsmouth Harbour
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