53-year-old Roman Starovoit, Putin’s minister of transport, left his office in the 19th-century building in Moscow city center on July 7, recently remodeled in the ponderous traditional Russian style reserved for ministries, and walked past the big golden two-headed eagle at the entrance.   He drove his beloved new Tesla to…

How a financier сlose to Putin’s friends bought an American company with access to the data of millions of air passengers in the US and Europe — and made the son of the FSB’s First Deputy Director a partner in a similar project in Russia. How a financier сlose to Putin’s…

Russian elites are obtaining Serbian passports with visa-free access to the EU during the war. Among them are an FSB special forces member, a friend of Nikolay Patrushev, nuclear weapons manufacturers, a close associate of Ramzan Kadyrov, and dozens of others. “We said it would be great to get passports”…

The UK and Spain have struck a “historic” deal over Gibraltar’s future, ending the long-running dispute over the territory after Brexit and easing the movement of people and goods across the border with Spain. The Foreign Office said the agreement “resolves the last major unresolved issue from Brexit”, while the…

The corruption scandal involving a subcontractor of the Paks II nuclear project has cast serious doubts over the transparency of the construction process and its compliance with international standards—including critical radiation safety regulations. However, the more serious concerns relate to the tilting of the southern wall and water infiltration into…