A sledgehammer smeared with fake blood, packed in a violin case – that was Russian tycoon Yevgeny Prigozhin’s macabre message to the European Parliament after EU legislators demanded that his notorious mercenary group be placed on theEU’s terrorist list.

New documents confirm previous investigations byOštro and OCCRP that Mihajlo Perenčević, a Croatian businessman sanctioned due to his important strategic business in Russia, has extensive financial ties to a major Croatian tourism developer with a portfolio of property and assets worth some 200 million euros (US$207.95 million).

In a new move to crack down on Russian corruption in Central America, the United States hassanctioned two people and three Guatemalan-based mining companies in cases exposed byOCCRP andForbidden Stories earlier this year.

The European Union on Monday imposed sanctions on eight more Russian nationals, consisting of high ranking agents of the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) and chemical weapon experts, over their alleged involvement in the poisoning of opposition figure Alexei Navalny.

The United Statessanctioned Monday a Russian microelectronics company that has facilitated the Kremlin’s military research and development (R&D) sector as Moscow  continues its illegal war against Ukraine.

According to the latest tabulations, the U.K. has now frozen over£18 billion (US$21.2 billion) in assets belonging to Russian businesses and oligarchs in response to the Kremlin’s ongoing war against Ukraine.

In videos that are circulating Czech social media, alleged crypto traders, speaking heavily accented Czech in a setting with skyscraper-dotted Moscow City in the background, claim to have made millions from an ingenious algorithm trading cryptocurrencies in the Korean stock market.

U.S. financial institutions reported over $1 billion in ransomware-related payments last year, majority of which were accounted for by Russian hackers, found a new analysis by the U.S. Treasury Department.

Wagner, the Russian mercenary company owned by the infamous businessman Yevgeny Prigozhin, secured and maintained its position in Sudan’s gold sector while working closely with companies affiliated with Sudan’s brutal military.

The European Commission proposed new legislation to tighten its gun laws in an effort to address the illegal trade in firearms which could rise due to the war in Ukraine.

The United States sanctioned Wednesday almost two dozen individuals and entities, including two influential government officials, who are implicated in what was described as the Russian Federation’s attempts to corrupt and capture Moldova’s political and economic institutions.

A European Parliament committee with a focus on foreign interference in the European Union discussed on Thursday Russia’s disinformation campaigns and other tactics, specifically targeting Hungary and Spain, to expand its sphere of influence within the union.

A British businessman was arrested on U.S. charges of conspiring to evade sanctions imposed on a Russian oligarch, the U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ)said on Tuesday.

The U.S. Treasury imposed on Tuesday sanctions on three Burmese businessmen and their company for allegedly supplying Russian-produced arms to Myanmar's military, which seized power following last year’s coup.

A Florida judge sent Mexican scientist Héctor Cabrera-Fuentes to jail in June on the charge of being an unregistered foreign agent. Now, reporters have discovered he was involved in discussions with the government of President Andrés Manuel Lopez Obrador on plans for an ambitious railway project.

Héctor Cabrera-Fuentes, February 2020. (Photo: Archivo Agencia/EL UNIVERSAL)

U.S. authorities unsealed Thursday an indictment against Russian billionaireOleg Deripaska, his girlfriend and three other people for “violating new U.S. sanctions imposed earlier this year in response to Russia’s unprovoked military invasion of Ukraine.”

The U.K. announced Monday a wave of sanctions against Russian collaborators responsible for the illegal sham elections held in eastern Ukraine, which have sought to submit its people under the Kremlin’s rule at gunpoint.

Aviation Director for Russia’s Far East and Arctic Development Corporation (KRDV), Ivan Pechorin, died in what seemed to be a maritime accident, continuing a string of mystery deaths of Russian executives and affluent individuals.

Initially a driving force behind the process, Russia is becoming a less prominent voice in negotiations over a prospective international treaty on cybercrime.

Russia will likely soon legalize use of virtual currencies in international trade amid the deepening impact of sanctions brought in response to war in Ukraine.