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Ukraine prepares multimillion dollar lawsuit against Russia’s oil conglomerate Rosneft
The Ministry of Justice of Ukraine intends to seek from the Russian owners of Lysychansk Oil Refinery almost 1 billion hryvnia ($36.9 million) in compensation as part of the lawsuit by Agrocomplex, which Ukraine lost in the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR), as announced by the head of the department, Pavlo Petrenko, in an interview with Interfax-Ukraine.
"Next week, in the Ukrainian, court there will be a major lawsuit brought by Ukraine against the Russian –owned company to recover …
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Media: Russian IT company was behind the Bad Rabbit computer virus attack
Cyberattacks on the websites and computer network of Interfax, which almost "turned off" most of the news flows for more than a day, was conducted by a "Russian institution directly related to the development and dissemination of information," a source from the agency told Rossiyskaya Gazeta.
Interfax specialists say that the nature, intensity and degree of coordination of the virus attack prove that the real purpose of the perpetrators was not to obtain a ransom worth a few bitcoins, but to …
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Putin warns Rostec state-owned conglomerate against uncontrolled extension
Russian President Vladimir Putin warned the state corporation Rostec from endless and uncontrolled growth, Interfax reports.
"You cannot expand endlessly, without any control, and you need to understand exactly what the corporation is created for, where it should move, and in what parameters it should function, so that its work is optimal, effective, and competitive," Putin said, speaking at Rostec’s 10 year anniversary celebration.
The state corporation includes more than 700 enterprises, …
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Conflict Intelligence Team uncovers Russia’s losses during its military operation in Ukraine
A group of independent investigators from the Conflict Intelligence Team (CIT) , upon analyzing a tender issued by the Ministry of Defense of Russia, has come to a conclusion that in 2014, Russian military human losses amounted to 218 persons.
This is an exceptionally high number, which, according to the CIT researchers can be explained by the involvement of the Russian military in combat actions in eastern Ukraine, the CIT said in a research summary published on its website.
CIT analyzed the …
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Russian Prime Minister Medvedev: Athletes will decide for themselves whether to go to the Olympics or not
Right after Russian President Vladimir Putin commented on the dismissal of the entire Russian team from the Olympics in Korea, Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said that nobody would prevent the athletes from participating in the Olympics under neutral status. Moreover, he even promised to cheer for them.
"This decision was a heavy blow for millions of our people and a real tragedy for many Russian athletes, since the South Korean Olympics is the last chance for some of them to compete …