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Kostyantyn Zhevago is the chief executive officer of the Ukrainian mining company Ferrexpo, and has been a member of the...

Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich has been a member of President Vladimir Putin’s inner circle since the late 1990s....

Serhiy Kivalov is a member of the Ukrainian parliament’s Opposition Bloc party, widely seen as the successor of the...

Vadim Shulman is a Ukrainian tycoon who, since the fall of the Soviet Union, has developed a diverse business portfolio that...

Gabriel Comănescu is a former electrical officer in the Romanian Navy who owns one of the country’s most important oil...

Vladimir Putin has always denied having any serious wealth. But one of his relatives somehow amassed as much as $573 million...

A former butcher worth US$ 550 million. A shipping company employee who amassed $573 million. A cellist whose offshore firms...

High-resolution satellite images provided by DigitalGlobe and Landsat show the devastation caused by illegal mining in the...

As companies jostle for the chance to rip wealth from the Orinoco region, the natives tribes who have lived there for...

The word jihad, usually defined as a struggle against the enemies of Islam, took on a new meaning six years ago when Iran’s...

Using circular motions, Misael Reyes massages soft wet mud over a copper plate, causing it to flow -- and reveal its riches....

Crime loves a vacuum, and the tribal people of Venezuela’s Southern Bolivar region say years of neglect by the government...