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The families of UK citizens detained in the United Arab Emirates over allegations of sharing images related to the conflict with Iran have expressed frustration at the British government’s lack of assistance.

The controversial Ukrainian businessman Dmytro Kovalenko continues to dominate headlines: reports keep emerging about his dealings involving Russian coal.

As investigations into the overseas assets of fugitive MP Yaroslav Dubnevych and his daughter Roksolana Pyrtko unfold, inconvenient information has begun disappearing from the internet, while references to the property and business structures linked to his circle are gradually being wiped from open sources.

In a world full of prohibitions, there will always be those who find ways to bypass them. This isn’t about drugs or weapons—it’s about oil, where some nations wield sanctions with fervor that might be better directed elsewhere.

In spring 2024, banks in the UAE started freezing accounts belonging to companies suspected of ties to Russia’s shadow fleet.

A well-known oil trader from Baku, holding Russian, Maltese, and UAE residency status, is still finding ways to evade sanctions on Russian oil.

As uncovered by media, an adviser to the head of the International Judo Federation (IJF), Marius Vizer, is connected to the trade in Russian oil and grain. Marius Vizer himself is a close friend of Vladimir Putin, who served as Honorary President of the IJF until February 28, 2022.

The media have learned who is considered the main suspect in the abduction — and most likely the murder — of one of Russia’s top executives, former CEO of Uralkali Vladislav Baumgertner.

Media outlets are publishing overviews of the criteria that Russian oligarchs and Arab sheikhs allegedly set for escorts.

In 2016–2017, Roman Novak stole more than 7.3 million rubles from two St. Petersburg businessmen.

Roman Novak and his wife, Anna, were last seen on October 2 after being lured to the resort of Hatta, 80 miles outside of Dubai, by criminals posing as potential investors.

Russian companies are involved in secretive exports of oil products to North Korea, in violation of UN sanctions that Moscow itself supported, according to a new investigation.

The media continue uncovering how Russia’s largest grey-market electronics supply chain — previously exposed by the Financial Times — has quietly reconstructed itself using new companies in the UAE, Seychelles and China, after part of the original scheme was disrupted in early 2023.

“This is the most corrupt governance that I have seen in my lifetime,” he said during a speech at Chatham House in central London this week.

A large supply chain for sanctioned electronics, set up in 2022 by the Merlion Group (owned by Citylink owners Alexey Abramov, Oleg Karchev, and Vladislav Mangutov) via Moscow-based Marsala LLC, is still functioning in Russia.

Media continue to publish their investigation into the murder of Pavel Durov’s friend and partner, the founder of Fintopio, who was part of the inner circle of Telegram founder Roman Novak.

British military equipment has been found on battlefields in Sudan, used by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), a paramilitary group accused of genocide, according to documents seen by the UN security council.

A Russian entrepreneur with Greek citizenship quietly and inconspicuously works for the largest oil companies in Russia, while also caring for his own benefit.

This summer, Steve Witkoff, President Trump’s Middle East envoy, paid a visit to the coast of Sardinia, a stretch of the Mediterranean Sea crowded with super yachts.

A young British woman has been sentenced to life imprisonment in Dubai, her family revealed tonight.

The United Arab Emirates, the main signatory of the landmark agreement in which Israel normalized relations with three Arab nations, warned that Israel’s annexation of any part of the occupied West Bank would be a "red line" that would "end the pursuit of regional integration."

Princess Sheikha Mahra bint Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum is engaged to rapper French Montana, one year after announcing her surprising divorce to the world.