Latest Russia Headlines
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Russia Flagship Carrier Aeroflot Says It Reached Settlement With Aircraft Leasing Firm
Nov 13 2023 // Russian flagship carrier Aeroflot said on Thursday it had clinched a settlement with leasing company BOC Aviation under which nine aircraft are to be handed over to Russian state insurance company NSK. A statement issued...
Russia-Linked Hackers Claim Credit for OpenAI Outage
Nov 13 2023 // A hacking group linked to Russia claimed responsibility for attacks that periodically forced OpenAI’s ChatGPT offline last week, saying it targeted the company due to its support of Israel. The group, which calls...
Russian Missile Strike on Merchant Ship Threatens Ukraine’s Exports
Nov 9 2023 // A Russian missile strike on a commercial ship at a major Ukrainian Black Sea port is adding to risks for commodity exports just as farmers in the war-battered nation are in the midst of this year’s harvest. A...
SolarWinds Staff Warned About Security Holes Before Russia Hack
Nov 1 2023 // Well before Russia’s audacious cyberattack that exploited SolarWinds Corp.’s software was made public, several employees allegedly raised red flags about holes in the company’s security. Their warnings,...
World’s Ghost Fleet in Focus Over US Russian Price-Cap Crackdown
Oct 26 2023 // U.S. penalties on shippers transporting Russian oil in breach of the G7’s price cap could push more Russian cargoes onto vessels referred to as the ghost fleet and away from mainstream tankers, shipping sources and...
Ukraine Sees Russian Cyberattacks Growing More Sophisticated
Oct 26 2023 // A senior Ukrainian official said Russian cyberattacks are growing more sophisticated and have become daily occurrences aimed at disrupting vital infrastructure during wartime. Deputy Foreign Minister Anton Demokhin,...
Hacking Groups, Including Some Tied to Russia, Are Attacking Israeli Websites
Oct 10 2023 // Hacking groups, including some tied to Russia, are attacking Israeli government and media websites, allying themselves with the Palestinian military group Hamas that launched a series of deadly strikes on the country over...
SMBC Aviation Receives Cash Insurance Settlement Over Jets Stranded in Russia
Oct 3 2023 // Ireland-based aircraft lessor SMBC Aviation Capital on Monday said it had received a cash insurance settlement of $710 million for its jets previously leased to Russia’s state-owned airline Aeroflot. The lessor under...
Shadowy Russian Oil Trade Employs Fake Coordinates and Tanker Tricks
Sep 29 2023 // On a sunny day off the southern coast of Greece last week, two aging tankers nestled next to each other while one pumped oil to the other. As far as global satellite tracking systems could tell, it never happened. The...
Russia Dodges G7 Price Cap Sanctions on Most of Its Oil Exports: FT
Sep 25 2023 // Russian crude oil supplies increased 50% this spring despite the G7 countries imposing sanctions due to war in Ukraine, the Financial Times reported on Sunday citing data from analytics company Kpler. The European Union,...
Update: Lessor AerCap Settles Claim of $645M for Aeroflot Jets Stranded in Russia
Sep 6 2023 // The world’s largest aircraft lessor has agreed to settle an insurance claim over Russia’s refusal to return 17 jets leased to airline Aeroflot, a landmark agreement in a dispute over 400 Western planes stranded...
Russia’s Flagship Oil Rises Above G-7 Sanctions Cap, but Does Little to Impede Services
Aug 22 2023 // The price of Russia’s flagship oil may have jumped above a Group of Seven imposed cap but that has done little to impede the provision of western services for the trade. The number of ships calling at the...
Ships Remain Backed Up in Black Sea Lanes as Russia Warning Shots Raise Tensions
Aug 15 2023 // Merchant ships remained backed up in lanes around the Black Sea on Monday as ports struggled to clear backlogs amid growing unease among insurers and shipping companies a day after a Russian warship fired warning shots at...
Russian Warship Fires Warning Shots at Cargo Ship in Black Sea
Aug 14 2023 // A Russian warship on Sunday fired warning shots at a cargo ship in the southwestern Black Sea as it made its way northwards, the first time Russia has fired on merchant shipping beyond Ukraine since exiting a landmark...
Russia Turns to ‘Shadow Fleet’ to Move Grain, as Its Shipping Challenges Grow
Aug 9 2023 // Russia’s lack of ships and Western grain traders’ shrinking appetite for business with Moscow are adding to rising costs of moving Russian wheat, at a time when the war in Ukraine has spilled perilously close...
Ukraine Black Sea Attacks Signal Expanding War; Russia Insurance Costs Likely to Rise
Aug 7 2023 // The footprint of President Vladimir Putin’s war on Ukraine is growing fast after a weekend in which sea drones crippled a Russian naval vessel and an oil tanker. For the first time, the attacks put at risk...
Microsoft Says Russia-Linked Hackers Behind Dozens of Teams Phishing Attacks
Aug 4 2023 // A Russian government-linked hacking group took aim at dozens of global organizations with a campaign to steal login credentials by engaging users in Microsoft Teams chats pretending to be from technical support, Microsoft...
Russia Strikes Ukraine’s Danube Port. Kyiv Says Aim Is to Intimidate Insurers, Shippers.
Aug 3 2023 // Russia attacked Ukraine’s main inland port across the Danube River from Romania on Wednesday, sending global food prices higher as it ramped up its use of force to prevent Ukraine from exporting grain. The drone...
Aircraft Lessors Aim for June 2024 Trial Over Contested Russia Insurance Claims
Aug 1 2023 // Some of the world’s largest aircraft lessors and insurers are aiming to be ready to go to trial in June 2024 over contested insurance claims for aircraft stuck in Russia, a lawyer for one of the lessors said on...
As Russian Oil Crosses G-7’s Price Cap, US Eyes Soft Enforcement
Jul 27 2023 // The Biden administration is poised to increase outreach to western trading houses, insurers and tanker owners to remind them to abide by the Group of Seven’s price cap on Russian oil as the crude trades over that...
