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Full coverage: Russia

The Irish unit of Russia’s largest leasing firm is defaulting on its bonds. Investors are lawyering up

Following recent missed payments on debts totalling $2.75 billion, bondholders including a British investment firm with Irish connections are considering their options against GTLK Europe.

Thomas Hubert
1st Jul, 2022 - 3 min read

Ukraine has held up against hundreds of cyber attacks so far, but is Russia lying in wait for a total wipeout?

Oleh Derevianko has been at the frontier of Russia's cyber warfare against Ukraine for years. His company's defences are holding off Russia's hackers for now, but the major concern is what malware could already have been planted and is waiting to strike in this hybrid war.

Rosanna Cooney
4th Jun, 2022 - 6 min read

In search of moral clarity: Germany, the war in Ukraine and a conversation Ireland needs to have

Germans retain a vivid idea of what Total War actually means and the remnants of this occasionally re-appear. But are the country's conversations about Russia's war against Ukraine leading to a clarity absent in Ireland?

Fergal Lenehan
14th May, 2022 - 11 min read

Russia and Ireland: The state is developing contingency plans to nationalise Aughinish Alumina

The government has been looking at a number of options for Aughinish Alumina’s extraction plant in Limerick. One of those options involves nationalising the plant, a move designed to secure 400 jobs.

Ian Kehoe
7th Apr, 2022 - 2 min read

Kerry Group says it is “suspending” its Russian operation. We tried to find out what it means

As multinationals flee Moscow in the wake of the invasion of Ukraine, the Irish food giant argues it still has unspecified “legal obligations” in Russia and Belarus.

Thomas Hubert
7th Apr, 2022 - 3 min read

Inspired by either hope or denial, a normality returns to Kyiv, while in Irpin the horrors are too real to contemplate

Johnny O'Reilly reports from Kyiv and from Irpin, the town just outside Ukraine's capital which was the scene of some of the most harrowing images from the war as Ukrainians consider what comes next.

Johnny O'Reilly
2nd Apr, 2022 - 5 min read

Stephen Kinsella: How to ensure there is no corporate profiteering from inflation

We can often mistake inflation for what is, in reality, profiteering. And with the ERSI forecasting a 8.5% spike in inflation, the government must tackle those who use it as an opportunity to gouge on prices.

Stephen Kinsella
24th Mar, 2022 - 6 min read

“We’re not going to be able to impose meaningful sanctions on Russia or on oligarchs if we don’t close loopholes that allow them to hide”

The war in Ukraine shows the need to expose money laundering structures routed through Ireland by applying the “many eyes principle,” says Transparency International Ireland’s John Devitt.

Thomas Hubert
23rd Mar, 2022 - 4 min read

As lessors contemplate aircraft losses, Russia’s largest bank sells its Irish aircraft leasing unit

Russia’s largest bank has sold its Irish aircraft leasing unit in the face of sanctions, with a new mystery backer appearing on its books. Meanwhile, Irish lessors threatened with the seizure of their Russian-based aircraft are combing through their insurance contracts.

S. Keyes and T. Hubert
15th Mar, 2022 - 5 min read

The propaganda war marches in time with the real war as the new symbols of fascism appear

Johnny O'Reilly reports from Odessa on the increasing desperation of Vladimir Putin as the Russian propaganda campaign continues on all fronts.

Johnny O'Reilly
12th Mar, 2022 - 5 min read
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