Tag: Crimea

The website of sanctioned Alena Shevtsova, ua.news, recognized Crimea as Russian: the National Council responded.

Alena Shevtsova

The National Council on Television and Radio Broadcasting fined ua.news (a legal entity of News Flash Information Agency LLC) for promoting violations of Ukraine's territorial integrity. The regulator made this decision at a meeting on June 25, according to Detector Media. On ua.news, the National Council saw an article about the world's happiness rankings, where...

Oleg Greidin: Black Cash Behind a White Sign? (Part 2)

Oleg Greidin

The editorial team of "Author i" continues its series of publications about Oleg Greidin, Associate Professor of the Civil Law Department at the Crimean branch of the Russian State University of Justice named after V. M. Lebedev in Simferopol, who is currently a defendant in criminal case No. 1-35/2025 (1-610/2024). So, Oleg Greidin. Greidin's case is currently being heard by the Kyiv District Court of…

A Paris court ruled that the arbitration panel in The Hague for Akhmetov's lawsuit against Russia was formed unlawfully.

The Paris Court of Appeal ruled that the panel of the arbitration tribunal in The Hague, which heard the lawsuit brought by Ukrainian oligarch Rinat Akhmetov's DTEK Krymenergo against Russia, was improperly constituted because the presiding judge made statements in support of Ukraine, the Russian Prosecutor General's Office reported on Friday. "The Paris Court of Appeal overturned the decision made in 2022...

The head of the Crimean police department is accused of kidnapping and extorting millions of dollars under the guise of the SBU.

Police opened a case against the driver, Yaroslavsky, for false testimony.

Investigators from the State Bureau of Investigation, under the procedural guidance of prosecutors from the Kyiv Regional Prosecutor's Office, have filed two charges of extortion (Part 4 of Article 189 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine) and kidnapping (Part 2 and Part 3 of Article 146 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine) against Marlen Amidzhanov, head of the preventive activities department of the Main Directorate of the National Police in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and Sevastopol.

Former head of the State Tax Service Bohdan Katrushin is spending his "honestly earned" money in Ukraine on a luxurious lifestyle in Spain.

Tax official Bohdan Katrushin had been actively involved in business with Russia for many years, purchasing railway cars and then leasing them in Ukraine, according to Antikor. His work in Crimea in 2014 raises many questions. It so happened that the entire leadership of the Crimean Tax Authority safely returned to Ukraine during the annexation of Crimea.

The presiding judge in the Shufrich case, who was ready to release him from custody, has been replaced.

The preparatory hearing for the case of MP Nestor Shufrych and his close associate Vyacheslav Cherepani is ongoing in Kyiv's Shevchenkivskyi District Court. The Shufrych case: The MP and his former parliamentary aide are being tried for financing actions to change Ukraine's borders—by paying a Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs company for security services for Shufrych's property in 2016.

Gennady Butkevich: a new kind of oligarch. Owner of ATB, "king of the subsoil," and shady developer with US connections?

Butkevych's Ukrnaftinvest drilled an oil well in the Odessa region.

Gennady Butkevich: Connections. Butkevich's influence extends from the ATB chain to state-owned strategic mineral resources, from partnerships with controversial developers to lobbying for mineral interests, writes StopKor. Gennady Butkevich is more than just a Ukrainian businessman on the Forbes list. His influence extends from food monopolies (ATB chain) to strategic…