August 28, 2023

Business Insider: Russian tech billionaire wants sanctions lifted after he criticized Ukraine invasion, report says

Business Insider: Russian tech billionaire wants sanctions lifted after he criticized Ukraine invasion, report says. “Russian oligarch Arkady Volozh will be the first to formally ask for sanctions to be lifted after condemning Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, a report says. The Financial Times reported that Volozh’s lawyers had petitioned the European Union to repeal sanctions placed on the tech billionaire last June after he chose to criticize Putin’s offensive 18 months after Russia’s invasion.”

Security & Legal Issues 0
August 26, 2023

US Department of Justice: Tornado Cash Founders Charged with Money Laundering and Sanctions Violations

US Department of Justice: Tornado Cash Founders Charged with Money Laundering and Sanctions Violations. “According to the indictment, unsealed today in the Southern District of New York, Roman Storm, 34, of Auburn, Washington, and Roman Semenov, 49, of Russia, created, operated, and promoted Tornado Cash, a cryptocurrency mixer that facilitated more than $1 billion in money laundering transactions, and laundered hundreds of millions of dollars for the Lazarus Group, the sanctioned North Korean cybercrime organization. Storm was arrested today in the state of Washington and will be presented later today in the Western District of Washington.”

Security & Legal Issues 0
August 13, 2023

Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies: RUSI and NK News Release New North Korea Reports Database

Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies: RUSI and NK News Release New North Korea Reports Database. “The database contains over 5,000 entities and their relationships, as described in successive reports by the UN Panel of Experts on North Korea from 2010 to 2023. The data allows countries and organisations to track sanctions compliance in a more easily accessible format. It is fully searchable and downloadable, and its fields are structured with ISO standards, making it easy to incorporate the data into existing databases.”

New Resources 0
August 12, 2023

The Moscow Times: Google Blocks Workspace Apps for Sanctioned Russian Firms – Kommersant

The Moscow Times: Google Blocks Workspace Apps for Sanctioned Russian Firms – Kommersant. “Google has started blocking its popular workplace apps for Russian companies under U.S. sanctions, the Kommersant business daily reported Friday, citing anonymous sources at two major IT companies. Around 30% of Russian companies’ corporate information is stored on Google Workspace services, which include Gmail, Docs, Sheets, Drive and other cloud-based tools, according to one of the sources’ estimates.”

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July 18, 2023

The Moscow Times: Russian Tech Giant Yandex Seeks New ‘Middlemen’ Buyers for Kremlin Handover – Reports

The Moscow Times: Russian Tech Giant Yandex Seeks New ‘Middlemen’ Buyers for Kremlin Handover – Reports. “The Kremlin is looking for buyers of Russia’s internet giant Yandex who would later sell the company to a Kremlin-linked oligarch sanctioned by the West, independent media reported, citing several anonymous sources familiar with the matter. The Bell business outlet and the news website Meduza said the search follows a breakdown of Yandex’s Dutch-registered holding company’s previous talks to sell its revenue-generating businesses and fully exit Russia.”

Tweaks & Updates 0
May 25, 2023

Moscow Times: Putin Signs Off on Sanctioned Tycoons’ Shared Yandex Stake – Reports

Moscow Times: Putin Signs Off on Sanctioned Tycoons’ Shared Yandex Stake – Reports. “President Vladimir Putin has agreed on the sale of a majority stake in the Russian side of splintered tech giant Yandex to three sanctioned billionaires and the state-owned VTB Bank, the news websites The Bell and Meduza reported Sunday, citing four unnamed sources close to the company.”

Security & Legal Issues 0
February 22, 2023

Washington Post: Russian propagandists said to buy Twitter blue-check verifications

Washington Post: Russian propagandists said to buy Twitter blue-check verifications. “The accounts claim to be based outside of Russia, so they can pay for verification without running afoul of U.S. sanctions. But they pass along articles from state-run media, statements by Russian officials, and lies about Ukraine from Kremlin allies, according to the research group Reset, which shared its findings with The Washington Post.”

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November 28, 2022

Lex in-depth: the cost of America’s ban on Chinese chips (Financial Times)

Financial Times: Lex in-depth: the cost of America’s ban on Chinese chips. “Washington wants to thwart China in its aim of producing advanced semiconductors, bearing the shorthand definition of 3-14 nanometre (nm) process technology. Cheaper, simpler chips carry the designation of anything above 14nm. These might sound like the kind of fine distinctions only professional technologists care about. But the stakes are huge.”

Security & Legal Issues 0

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