Europol has launched Operation Oscar to search for Russian assets subject to EU sanctions due to the military operation in Ukraine, according to the website of the EU police agency.
On April 11, 2022, Europol, together with EU Member States, Eurojust and Frontex [the EU external border security agency], launched Operation Oscar to support EU Member State financial investigations against criminal assets owned by individuals and legal entities under sanctions,” the message says.
Europol will also assist in investigations into circumvention of EU economic sanctions. Support includes the exchange of data, including intelligence.
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From April 9 to April 16, Russian Railways introduced restrictions on shipping to China through the Naushki-Sukhe-Bator border crossing, follows from the documents of the monopoly. In addition, according to the materials of Russian Railways, from April 9 and the cancellation, there are restrictions on shipment to Finland.
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The Central Bank of the Russian Federation has suspended work on the introduction of regulation of the risks of banks’ participation in ecosystems and investments in immobilized assets due to sanctions from Western states, the regulator’s annual report says.
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The Bank of Russia has temporarily suspended the publication of monthly information on the Russian Federation’s foreign trade in goods (according to the balance of payments methodology).
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The police detained oppositionist Vladimir Kara-Murza Jr. at the exit from the house, lawyer Vadim Prokhorov told Interfax on Monday.
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JSC RT Labs (a subsidiary of PJSC Rostelecom) has acquired a 60% stake in Datamart LLC, which develops and implements data marts, according to the SPARK-Interfax information system.
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The issuer of ALROSA Eurobonds is Alrosa Finance S.A. — received from the Irish Stock Exchange (Euronext Dublin), where Eurobonds were listed, notifications that their listing was suspended, and from April 12 it will be terminated due to EU sanctions.
There are currently two issues of the company’s Eurobonds in circulation in the amount of $500 million each with maturities in 2024 and 2027.
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President of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs Alexander Shokhin and ex-head of RAO UES and Rosnano, former presidential special representative for relations with international organizations Anatoly Chubais are no longer on the board of directors of the Pipe Metallurgical Company.
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In the first quarter of 2022, global shipments of personal computers (PCs) decreased by 5.1% year-on-year to 80.5 million units, according to preliminary data from the International Data Corporation (IDC).
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Bloomberg reported that from April 11 it will suspend the publication of news reports in Russian for an indefinite period.
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Six Russian diplomats in France have been declared persona non grata, as the Charge d’Affaires of the Russian Federation in France was told on Monday evening when summoned to the country’s Foreign Ministry.
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The first unmanned flight of the Space Launch System (SLS) launch vehicle and the Orion spacecraft to orbit the Moon as part of the Artemis («Artemis») program, previously planned for May-July this year, is postponed to June-August, said the program manager, a NASA representative Mike Sarafin.
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The Japanese Foreign Ministry announced the imposition of sanctions against 398 Russian citizens and 28 organizations from Russia. In addition, Tokyo banned new investments in Russia.
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The United States and India have agreed to exchange data in the field of space defense, Pentagon chief Lloyd Austin said at a press conference following talks with the heads of the Indian Foreign and Defense Ministry.
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In 2021, fraudsters stole 13.5 billion rubles from bank customers, making more than 1 million unauthorized transfers from bank cards and accounts. Of these funds, banks were able to return to the victims only 6.8%, or 920.5 million rubles. The return rate has fallen for the second year in a row amid an increase in theft, data from the Bank of Russia survey on fraudulent transactions in 2021 shows.
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Huawei has removed applications from Russian banks that fell under US blocking sanctions from its AppGallery branded store. At the moment, in the Huawei AppGallery app store, you can no longer find the VTB Online, Promsvyazbank and Otkritie applications.
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A well-known car manufacturer, the German company Mercedes-Benz Group, announced plans to open its own software development center. 200 million euros will be invested in the project.
The enterprise was named Electric Software Hub (ESH). It will be opened on the square of the Mercedes Technology Center complex in the city of Sindelfin. The area of the complex is 70,000 m2, and its capacity is 1100 employees.
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Tesla Inc. delivered a total of 65,814 vehicles from its factory in China’s financial center last month, with most of those 65,754 vehicles shipped to the domestic market.
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The flight restriction regime at Russian airports in the south of the country and in central Russia has been extended until April 19, 2022.
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The Finnish company Nokia is completely withdrawing from the Russian market, its CEO said. At the same time, the company will continue to maintain telecommunications networks in Russia in order to provide Russians with access to the Internet.
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Sber warned that since April 12, the SberBank Online mobile app on the iOS platform has not been available for download and updates in the App Store due to sanctions. Previously installed applications work, the bank advises other customers to use the web version of the service.
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Sri Lanka defaulted on external obligations — government statement. A few days earlier, the government and the leadership of the central bank resigned. There is a shortage of food in the country. The President refuses to resign and relies on the help of the military. All social networks are completely blocked in the country, and food warehouses and shops are guarded by the army.
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The Ninth Court of Cassation of General Jurisdiction upheld the decision on the compulsory treatment of the shaman Alexander Gabyshev, his lawyer Alexei Pryanishnikov said on Tuesday.
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The network of hypermarkets «O’Key» in 2021 received 208 million rubles of net profit under IFRS against a loss of 1.44 billion rubles a year earlier, the retailer said.
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OPEC will not be able to compensate for the decline in Russian oil supplies to the world market, Cartel Secretary General Mohammed Barkindo said during a meeting with European Energy Commissioner Kadri Simson.
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Inflation in Kazakhstan in March reached 12%. This is the highest figure since September 2016, Chairman of the National Bank of Kazakhstan Galymzhan Pirmatov said.
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The European Union has developed a plan for gas supplies to Ukraine and Moldova in case the countries encounter difficulties in obtaining Russian gas, Bloomberg reports. In addition, the EU is trying to assess what difficulties will arise in the member states with the introduction of an embargo on oil supplies from the Russian Federation.
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Analysts of Metrium summed up the results of the first quarter in the Moscow market of new buildings of the mass segment. The volume of supply increased by 1.5%. Weighted average price per sq. meters reached 284,690 rubles. (+1.4% for the month, +8.2% for the quarter, +26.5% for the year).
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Poland’s military gendarmerie detained a Russian citizen on suspicion of espionage, according to a statement published on the country’s government website on Tuesday
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Israeli security officials are checking thermal mugs donated to government agencies by the Chinese Embassy, which are believed to contain listening devices, writes The Jerusalem Post.
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The Arbitration Court of the Krasnoyarsk Territory, at the suit of the West Siberian Transport Prosecutor’s Office, decided to seize 11 facilities of the Norilsk Railway (NZhD) from MMC Norilsk Nickel in favor of the state.
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A draft law on the external management of foreign companies that have announced their withdrawal from the Russian market has been submitted to the State Duma of Russia, the United Russia party’s press service said on Tuesday.
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Rosmolodezh will allocate more than 2.5 billion rubles in grants for the implementation of youth projects as part of the forum campaign in 2022, Sergei Kiriyenko, First Deputy Head of the Presidential Administration, told reporters.
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Swiss pharmaceutical company Novartis AG has confirmed plans to cut staff as part of a business reorganization aimed at saving about $1 billion by 2024.
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Brazil’s coffee exports fell 6% in March from the same month a year earlier to 3.6 million bags (1 bag = 60 kg), the Brazilian Coffee Exporters Council (Cecafe) said.
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Taiwanese electronics manufacturer Pegatron Corp., which assembles Apple Inc. products, has suspended operations in Shanghai and neighboring Jiangsu province.
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China is reducing its purchases of liquefied natural gas amid rising global prices, which exacerbate losses from imports, while lockdowns associated with the coronavirus pandemic are undermining domestic demand, writes Bloomberg.
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Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said that his country will speed up the search and evaluation of gas fields, reports EFE.
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Huawei has disabled support for World maps in the AppGallery branded application store, as the owners of the company’s devices began to report.
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OPEC countries in March increased production by 57,000 barrels per day compared to February — up to 28.55 million bpd, the organization’s report says, citing data from secondary sources.
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Actor Konstantin Raikin confirmed the information that he is in the process of being dismissed from the post of artistic director of the Higher School of Performing Arts (HSSI; formerly the Theater School of Konstantin Raikin).
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The Russian gold mining company Nordgold, owned by Alexei Mordashov, was unable to make payments on dollar Eurobonds due in 2024 for $400 million.
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The structures of Alisher Usmanov Akkermann Cement, which is part of the USM holding, are buying out the Kaluga cement plant for almost 9 billion rubles. The launch of production will have to invest another 30 billion rubles, and the project has risks associated with a long period of conservation and equipment supplies, experts point out
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The German energy company Uniper does not intend to renew contracts for the supply of coal from Russia. The current contract of the company is calculated until the end of 2022.
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The Russian Council of Shopping Centers is interested in opening stores of Iranian clothing brands to fill the market niches vacated after the withdrawal of Western companies, the RSTC press service reported.
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The Japanese corporation Sony has decided to additionally invest about $ 1 billion in the game developer Epic Games, follows from a statement on the company’s website.
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India’s largest refiner has excluded Russian Urals oil and a number of other high-sulfur grades from a recent purchase, Reuters reported.
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