G7 nations announced this week a ban on all future Russian gold imports, in order to apply pressure to President Vladimir Putin’s regime as his invasion of Ukraine now enters its fifth month.

While investigating money laundering linked to the funding of Russian occupied territories, Ukrainian authorities said they discovered a trove of ancient Scythian weapons believed to have been looted from museums in occupied Crimea, Ukraine’s general prosecutor revealed in a statement on Friday.

As talks on a U.N. cybercrime treaty gather pace, some accuse Russia of trying to forge cover for human rights abuses and criminal groups staging attacks against the West.

A Russian state-backed shipping company sanctioned by the U.S. and EU in February continues to deliver crude oil to European ports, analysis of company records and live ship tracking shows. Experts say the company disguised its ownership of the vessels by basing subsidiaries in Cyprus and the United Arab Emirates and sailing under Liberian flags.

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An internationally recognized Mexican scientist who pleaded guilty to acting as an unregistered agent for the Russian government and spying on an FBI informant in the Miami area,was sentenced Tuesday to four years in a U.S. prison.

An email domain not visible to the public — LLCInvest.ru — helped reporters uncover a group of interconnected companies that hold palaces, resorts, yachts, jets, and bank accounts full of cash.

Sibur, one of Russia’s largest companies, has previously unknown involvement with two properties that have been linked to President Putin, one in Russia’s far northwest and the other on the sunny shores of the Black Sea.

“Space travel continues - I moved from one ship to another,” incarcerated Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalnywrote Wednesday on Instagram, confirming that he has been transferred from his detention facility to another - considered Russia’s scariest.

Countless Ukrainians have ended up in Russia since the invasion. Moscow says they went voluntarily. Ukrainian officials, and many refugees themselves, say they were forced against their will.

A refugee from eastern Ukraine who unwillingly found herself in Russia with her two sons. They later made a risky escape to Europe. (Photo: Jaanus Lensment / Ekspress Meedia)

A U.S. court has authorized law enforcement to seize two planes belonging to sanctioned Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) said in astatement on Monday. However, none of the aircraft are currently in the country.

As the West warns of imminent Russian assaults against critical infrastructure, cybersecurity researchers say the Kremlin is likely to rely on criminal rather than state hackers in launching such attacks.

The NATO Parliamentary Assembly (PA) condemned Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, pledged to further sanction Moscow andconcluded that corruption is a key element in Russia’s strategic toolkit.

China’s civil aviation authority has banned from its airspace Airbuses and Boeings which Russia has stolen from international lessors shortly after it invaded Ukraine back in February.

More than half of energy professionals believe cyberattacks on the industry in the near future will result in a loss of life and many companies are not doing enough to protect themselves, according to a recent report.

About two weeks before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Portugal thwarted Roman Abramovich’s intention to sell a lavish mansion in the south of the country worth nearly US$10,5 million.

The Czech Republic’s Foreign Ministry said on Monday that the country could soon adopt the Magnitsky Act - a law that targets persons and businesses implicated or affiliated with serious human rights breaches.

At the request of U.S. authorities, police on the Pacific island of Fiji seized last week the US$300 million superyacht of sanctioned Russian oligarch Suleiman Kerimov.

In order to throw a wrench into the Russian war machine’s advances, the United Kingdom, the United States and their European allies imposed a broad range of new sanctions across various sectors, with talks of halting all future oil imports to the EU in the works as well.

After the West imposed heavy sanctions against Vladimir Putin and his inner circle over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the Russian president decided to strike back and impose sanctions against what he described as “unfriendly countries.”

Tropical rainforests – which are vitally important for carbon storage and biodiversity – are disappearing at a rate of roughly 10 soccer fields a minute, a Global Forest Watch (GFW) report warned.