The U.S. Department of Treasury announced on Wednesday that the largest German investment and financial services provider Deutsche Bank has agreed to pay two settlements totaling US$583,100 for facilitating transactions that violated Ukraine-related sanctions.

Less than a month after Russia’s leading opposition figure and fierce Kremlin criticAlexei Navalny survived a poisoning attack, unknown assailants spilled on Tuesday a foul-smelling substance at the premises of the Navalny-backed Siberian opposition in Novosibirsk.

Russia’s foremost opposition figure and anti-corruption campaigner on Monday woke from a medically-induced coma he was placed into after he was poisoned with a state-developed nerve agent in what critics believe was a targeted attack by the Kremlin.

Three Baltic countries on Monday imposed travel bans on 30 top Belarusian officials, including President Alexander Lukashenko, in response to a brutal crackdown against protesters who claim the authoritarian ruler rigged the August 9 election.

A recent investigation by an anti-corruption agency has revealed how Kremlin-linked actors are orchestrating the election campaign for one of Georgia’s conservative, pro-Russia opposition parties.

German doctors confirmed on Monday that Russian opposition leader and Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny has been poisoned and said that while his condition is serious, it is currently not life threatening.

A day after Russia's top Kremlin criticAlexei Navalny was admitted to a hospital in Siberian Omsk after allegedly being poisoned, German and French leaders called on the Kremlin to allow them to transfer the opposition leader to Germany or France.

Russia’s best-known dissident — now fighting for his life in a Siberian hospital after an apparent poisoning — is usually described as an “opposition politician.” But Navalny’s most enduring legacy may be his investigations into the corruption at the heart of the Putin regime.

Russian opposition leader and outspoken critic of the KremlinAlexei Navalny is currently lying unconscious in a hospital in the city of Omsk after allegedly being poisoned in Siberia, Kira Yarmysh, his spokeswoman, said Thursday.

After having analyzed leaked emails and phone records, Bellingcat reporters were able to present last week how frequent a Russian tycoon has been communicating with the Kremlin and other Russian institutions during his worldwide private military and disinformation activities. 

Washington is offering US$10 million for a tip that would help authorities prevent possible cyber interference in November elections.

At least $137 million of public funds was stolen from one of the world’s least developed countries through corrupt arms deals.

The UK’s primary opposition party has called for urgent action on illicit financial flows in the wake of damning revelations that the country’s government has failed to properly scrutinise and investigate the activities of wealthy Russian oligarchs with ties to the Kremlin.

For years the ICDO, a decades-old international organization based in Switzerland, functioned essentially as a front for the Russian government. The organization’s lack of transparency and dependence on Moscow also gave officials an opportunity to pad their pockets.

Alexey Navalny, Kremlin’s loudest critic,announced on Monday that his Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK) will be shut down due to the lofty fines Russian courts ordered them to pay for the alleged false or defamatory information against the country’s top officials.

A Russian police major died on Wednesday in what appears to be suicide she committed soon after she testified against her boss who is accused of criminal extortion, Russian media reported Thursday.

The U.S. Department of State announced on Wednesday sanctions against another two Russian companies that are believed to be financed by Yevgeniy Prigozhin, a businessman close to Vladimir Putin who is allegedly financing dubious activities.

A Moscow city lawmaker said she discovered how contracts are being rigged by officials who use disappearing ink to adjust prices of infrastructure and other works and line their pockets with the difference.

Multiple major business conflicts in Russia have been swiftly resolved after one little-known businessman got involved. His tactics included outright intimidation — and references to the powerful Chechens who stood behind him.

Security forces in Russia have detained a regional governor on suspicion of orchestrating the 2005 murder of several entrepreneurs in the far east of the country.