With almost a year to go until the US presidential election, EU analysts and policymakers are laser-focused on assessing the prospect and ramifications of another term for President Joe Biden, or a second Trump Administration, writes Louis Auge. The US vote will come shortly after another tight and relatively unheralded election – but one which […]
Some time ago, Malta was considered one of the most convenient venues for issuing European passports in exchange for substantial investments from those who seek to stay on the continent, including Russians. A Ukrainian journalist accused officials Ferne and Siantar of bribery and illegal assistance to Russian Leonid Levitin, who received Maltese citizenship in 2016. Presumably, Levitin's acquaintance Vyacheslav Rezchikov paid Siantar's daughter Celine for these services.
“No one will come after us. We will rule here forever”, Slovak Finance Minister Igor Matovič declared confidently last month, after a journalist raised the prospect of what might follow the current coalition government led by the OLaNO party which Matovič founded. The hubris displayed by the controversial politician a recent poll found that 88% of […]
The global exodus of Western companies from the Russian market that began in the spring of 2022 gave rise to a flurry of mergers and acquisitions within Russia. Foreign conglomerates began selling their shares in Russian subsidiaries. Bidders for those assets must not have any connection with sanctioned companies or individuals; otherwise, the sellers could […]
Since the beginning of the war in Ukraine and the subsequent massive Western sanctions against the Kremlin, there are not many places left on Earth for Russians and sanctioned Russian companies to go that would allow them to escape or ease the burden of the restrictive measures put in place. The United Arab Emirates is […]