Rotenberg Brothers, Putin’s Billionaire Judo Buddies, Thrown by US Sanctions
U.S. sanctions appear to be having an effect on government and individual Russians’ finances, if not on actual policies of the Putin regime. Billionaires in Putin’s inner circle are being hit hard, More...
Putin Pal Gennady Timchenko Investigated for Money Laundering
With the U.S. tightening up investigations into suspected activities by Russian leader Vladimir Putin’s inner circle, the spotlight is now on Russian tycoon Gennady Timchenko, who might have transferred More...
Putin Buddies Arkady and Boris Rotenberg Move Assets to Sons to Dodge Sanctions
A childhood friend and sometime judo partner of Vladimir Putin, Arkady Rotenberg and his brother Boris are moving their assets to their sons to avoid sanctions, as reported by Bloomberg. Arkady divested More...
Putin Helps his Pals the Rotenbergs Take the Edge Off Sanctions
Arkady Rotenberg, a member of Vladimir Putin’s inner circle, has encouraged a Duma member to compose a bill that would guarantee that Rotenberg will received public funding to compensate for punitive More...
Italy Seizes $40 Million in Real Estate Belonging to Putin Judo Partner Rotenberg
Italian authorities seized property worth about $40 million from Arkady Rotenberg, a close friend and the judo partner of Russian de facto Czar Vladimir Putin, Reuters reported. An Italian finance police More...
New, Longer Reach For US Sanctions Could Slap Russian Billionaire Rotenberg
The rules have changed for U.S. sanctions, and they have now reached warp factor draconian for many companies and investors. Now companies that are even partially owned by controversial figures could find More...
Arkady Rotenberg Acquires Controlling Share in Russian TV Content Producer
– Rotenberg has acquired a 51 percent share in Krasny Kvadrat, Russia’s largest producers of content for television. – – Russian industrialist Arkady Rotenberg, whose personal fortune More...
US Treasury Department Sanctions 20 Oligarchs Over Annexation Of Crimea
– (L-R) Gennady Timchenko, Arkady and Boris Rotenberg / Getty – Vladimir Putins’s annexation of the Crimea appears to be a carefully planned strategic move to restore elements of the former More...
Oligarch Arkady Rotenberg May Acquire “Prosveshcheniye” Russian Textbook Publisher
– Arkady Rotenberg Billionaire Arkady Rotenberg could soon become an investor in Prosveshcheniye, Russia’s leading publisher of school textbooks, according to an industry insider, the Moscow More...
Arkady Rotenberg Moves Into Outer space- Pays $28 Million for Skanex
– Rotenberg has invested $28 million to acquire a majority share in Skanex, one of the leading players in Russia’s space tech industry. – Arkady Rotenberg / Getty – Arkady Rotenberg has More...