Articles by Nidhi Verma and Gleb Stolyarov

Russian Insurers Play Growing Role in Facilitating Oil Exports to Top Buyer India

Russian insurers are playing a growing role facilitating the country’s oil shipments to India, its biggest buyer, data obtained from trade and shipping sources shows, helping to protect Moscow’s export revenue despite western sanctions. Russian firms provided insurance cover for …

Western Insurers Provide Cover for Russian Oil Despite Price Cap Concerns

A group of Western insurers have provided cover for tankers carrying Russian crude, keeping its oil flowing after many in the trade sector withdrew for fear of breaching the rules of a G7 price cap, data from traders and shippers …

Russian Court Freezes Volkswagen Assets in Russia

A Russian court on Monday froze all Volkswagen assets in Russia, in the latest obstacle to the German carmaker’s year-long efforts to wind down its Russian operations. Volkswagen, along with other foreign carmakers, suspended operations in Russia last year after …

Russian Airlines Explore Buying Stranded Jets From Western Leasing Firms

Russian airlines have held exploratory talks with at least one major Western leasing firm about using state funds to buy some of the more than 400 aircraft stranded in Russia after its invasion of Ukraine, according to documents and sources. …

Russia’s Tech Giant Yandex Says It Repelled Biggest DDoS Attack in History

MOSCOW — A cyber attack on Russian tech giant Yandex’s servers in August and September was the largest known distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack in the history of the internet, the company said on Thursday. The DDoS attack, in which hackers …

Russia’s Aeroflot Cuts Superjet Flights After Fatal Crash in May

Russian airline Aeroflot has scaled back the number of Sukhoi Superjet 100 flights it operates after one of its planes made a crash-landing last month, killing 41 people, according to data provided by a flight tracking website. Flightradar24 data shows …