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Moscow court rejects appeals against pre-trial detention of Baring Vostok top executives

March 4, 2019

On Wednesday, Thursday and Friday last week the Moscow Municipal Court rejected appeals against pre-trial detention for Baring Vostok’s top executives, including US citizen Michael Calvey, founder, French citizen Philippe Delpal, Partner, and Russian citizen Ivan Zyuzin, Investment Director. Baring Vostok, which does “not agree with the charges that have been brought against them,” announced …

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Baring Vostok case not about politics, but perhaps about geopolitics

April 1, 2019

“Sources close to the Kremlin” told independent TV station Dozhd that the arrest of Baring Vostok founder Michael Calvey on Feb. 15 – which President Putin at least knew about and perhaps endorsed – were caused by suspicions that the private equity firm funded Russian opposition groups. “They tried to shake things up before the …

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Twitter targeted by lawsuit for non compliance with Russian data-localization law

February 25, 2019

Roskomnadzor, the Russian telecom and Internet regulator, initiated today a lawsuit against Twitter for failing to provide information about its compliance with the Russian data-localization law. The US microblogging platform is now facing an administrative fine of 5,000 rubles ($764 at the current exchange rate). Ultimately Twitter, should it violate the law, could be blocked …

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Prominent business associations call for “honest and fair investigation” in Baring Vostok case

February 22, 2019

Yesterday four key European business associations operating in Russia published a “common statement” with regards to the Baring Vostok case in which two foreign top managers of the firm, US citizen Michael Calvey and French citizen Philippe Delpal, were detained Friday. These business associations stated the following: The Association of European Businesses, the German-Russian Chamber …

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Baring Vostok founder under arrest: The Russian tech investment community under shock

March 5, 2019

US citizen Michael Calvey, a figure of the Russian private equity scene, was detained Friday in Moscow as part of a large-scale fraud investigation (read more about the charges). The news has put the Russian investor and tech community under shock. Calvey is the founder of Baring Vostok Capital Partners, one of the most established …

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Court mistake reveals Russia’s largest underground online casino works from Ukraine

November 18, 2024

Russia’s biggest illegal online casino, Azino777, operates out of Ukraine and has managed some of its money flows through a Ukrainian branch of Russia’s bank Sberbank, Russian business media outlet The Bell reported on Feb. 4, referring to decisions by a Ukrainian court. The Bell journalists found a mistake in a document of Kyiv Holosiivskyi District …

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Facebook and Twitter face administrative charges for non compliance with Russian data-localization law

January 22, 2019

Will Facebook and Twitter abide by the law on personal data storage, or could they ultimately be blocked in Russia like LinkedIn? The suspense remains as the two companies failed again last week, more than three years after the law came to force, to prove their compliance with it. Adopted in 2014 and applicable since September 2015, this law …

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Google fined in Russia for refusing to censor search results

December 13, 2018

Roskomnadzor, the Russian telecom and Internet regulator, has fined Google for failing to comply with a law that requires online search engines to purge any hyperlinks to materials that are banned in Russia. Google has refused to connect to Federal State Information System (FGIS) where these websites are listed. The fine amounts to 500,000 rubles ($7,537 at today’s …

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US charges six Russians, two Kazakhs in online ad fraud scheme

December 3, 2018

US prosecutors have indicted eight people, most of them Russian, for an alleged online fraud involving fake advertising that caused companies to lose tens of millions of dollars, the Justice Department announced late on November 27. In one alleged scheme that began in 2015, two of the accused operated a fake advertising network that used …

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Google faces fine for refusing to censor search results in Russia

December 4, 2018

On November 26 Roskomnadzor, the Russian telecom and Internet regulator, announced administrative charges against Google  for failing to comply with a law that requires online search engines to purge any hyperlinks to materials that are banned in Russia. Google has also refused to connect to the federal information system where these websites are listed. For violating …

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How Vkontakte cooperates with Russian law enforcement and secret service agencies

November 16, 2018

Liliya Chanysheva, an activist who works at Alexey Navalny’s headquarters in St. Petersburg, is suing the social network Vkontakte (a property of LSE-listed Mail.Ru Group) for disclosing users’ personal information to Russian law enforcement. According to Chanysheva’s lawyer, police have tried to justify the information collection by citing two federal laws, though both these laws limit …

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Russian authorities press Google to stop “meddling in Russian elections”

September 5, 2018

Two official Russian bodies, the Central Election Commission and the telecom regulator Roskomnadzor, have called Google to stop making its resources available for what they judge to be illegal activities during elections. Thus, the electoral commission has sent a formal letter to Larry Page complaining about Alexey Navalny, an opposition leader, using YouTube to distribute information …

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