Canada’s financial intelligence agency is warning that Russians subject to economic sanctions due to Moscow’s attack on Ukraine could try to evade them using shell companies, cryptocurrency and real-estate transactions. The Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Centre also says in a new special bulletin that those seeking to launder the proceeds of crime and corruption…
Russians Could Be Disguising Cash to Evade Canadian Sanctions, Federal Agency Warns
Russia Orders Arrest of Prominent Producer, Director Who Criticized Ukraine War
TALLINN, Estonia—A Moscow court has ordered the arrest of prominent film producer Alexander Rodnyansky and theater director Ivan Vyrypaev for “spreading false information” about the Russian army. The initial court hearings against Rodnyansky and Vyrypaev were held on April 27, but not reported by the court until Wednesday. According to the court’s press service, Rodnyansky…
Russia Agrees to Extend Ukraine Grain Deal in a Boost for Global Food Security
May 17, 2023
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ANKARA, Turkey—Russia agreed to a two-month extension of a deal that has allowed Ukraine to ship grain through the Black Sea to parts of the world struggling with hunger, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced Wednesday, a boost to global food security after the war drove up prices. Turkey and the U.N. brokered the breakthrough…
Impose Secondary Sanctions on the Business Partners of Russia and China
May 17, 2023
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Commentary Western sanctions on Russia have loopholes through which a self-driving truck with haywire AI could drive. Businesses in Central Asia, for example, openly advertise online about how they serve as transshipment points to evade U.S. and EU sanctions “100 percent.” The statistics back them up. As soon as the sanctions took effect, imports of…
Kyiv Rejects Russian Claims That Hypersonic Missile Destroyed US Patriot Battery
May 17, 2023
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Ukrainian officials have denied Russian claims that a United States-supplied Patriot air-defense system was destroyed in Kyiv by a Kinzhal-type hypersonic missile. “Don’t worry about the fate of the Patriot [system],” Yuriy Ihnat, a Ukrainian Air Force spokesman, said in televised comments on May 17. “Destroying the system with some kind of ‘Kinzhal’ is impossible,”…
Russia Renounces Cold War-Era Treaty Limiting Force Deployments in Europe
May 16, 2023
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The State Duma, the lower house of Russia’s parliament, has adopted a bill paving the way for Moscow’s withdrawal from the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe (CFE). Signed in 1990, the CFE treaty sought to limit deployment of conventional military forces in Europe by both the Western NATO alliance and the Soviet-Era Warsaw…
Iran, Russia Expand ‘Unprecedented Military Partnership’ with Fighter Jet Deal: Kirby
Iran and Russia are growing their military cooperation with increased arms sales that the White House says are directly resulting in the killing of Ukrainians. Tehran’s continued sale of suicide drones and other munitions to Moscow is meaningfully augmenting Russia’s ability to continue its attempted conquest of Ukraine, said National Security Council Coordinator for Strategic…
US Intercepts 6 Russian Warplanes Near Alaska
U.S. fighter jets intercepted a formation of six Russian military aircraft operating near Alaska last week. On Monday, the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) announced it had detected the Russian aircraft operating near the Alaska Air Defense Identification Zone (ADIZ) on May 11. NORAD’s Alaska region dispatched F-16 and F-22 fighter jets, KC-135 Stratotankers,…
Russia Strikes Ukrainian Arms Depot, Prompting Speculation of Possible Fallout
May 15, 2023
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Moscow says its forces have destroyed a large munitions depot in Ukraine’s western city of Khmelnytskyi. “One AFU [Armed Forces of Ukraine] ammunition depot has been destroyed close to Khmelnytskyi,” the Russian Defense Ministry stated in its daily briefing for May 14. Khmelnytskyi, the target of Russian strikes in February, is located roughly 170 miles…
Turkey Heads to Runoff Vote after Hard-Fought Presidential, Parliamentary Polls
May 14, 2023
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Turkey appears set to be heading to a runoff vote after neither of the two top contenders secured an outright majority in contentious May 14 presidential polls. According to Turkey’s official electoral commission, incumbent President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, head of the Justice and Development Party (AKP), secured roughly 49 percent of the vote. Kemal Kilicdaroglu,…
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