News – Page 18 – KCS Group Asia Ltd

Russia and Putin: The end of the road?

Articles / Corruption, Due Diligence, Kremlin, Putin, Russia / 12/2022

If you drive south-east out of St. Petersburg, you find yourself on the Trans-Siberian Highway, a network of roads eleven thousand kilometres long that is, depending on your disposition towards Australia, either the longest or second-longest highway on the planet. But even eleven thousand kilometres must come to an end, and the prospect of Vladivostok [...]

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Circus of Horrors

Articles / Corruption, Due Diligence, Europe, Hungary, oil and gas, Russia / 11/2022

If Vladimir Putin has, throughout the war, been something of a magician – distracting you with the left hand while acting with the right – then Viktor Orban has been its acrobat, walking a thin and very dangerous tightrope between alignment with the EU, on which Hungary remains dependant for financial aid and international prestige,

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Brazil: Future imperfect

Articles / Brazil, BRICS, China, Corruption, Due Diligence, Lula da Silva, Russia / 11/2022

Although according to its national anthem, Brazil’s future ‘mirrors greatness’, the country presently finds itself looking to the past, in more ways than one. After four years of rule by the right-wing Jair Bolsonaro, this dictatorial populist lost by a margin of just 1.8%, the thinnest in Brazil’s history, to Lula da Silva – who

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Ilan Shor: the Kremlin’s new man in Moldova

Articles / Due Diligence, energy supply, Ilan Shor, Kremlin, Moldova, Russia / 11/2022

In previous articles, KCS Group Europe has reported on the Kremlin’s strategy to fund pro-Russia politicians and influential figures in various Eastern European nations like Hungary, Czech Republic, Poland, Bulgaria, and Romania. Next on the list is Moldova. The small Eastern European nation finds itself in a very difficult position regarding Russian influence – arguably,

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France and Germany: The Kremlin Clock is ticking

Articles / Due Diligence, France, Germany, Russia:Ukraine conflict, Russian Business / 11/2022

With the planet’s doomsday clock still set at three minutes to midnight, Ukraine might be forgiven for expecting at least the second hand to have ticked onwards a little more. If the prospect of World War III is not enough, then what is? A consequence, perhaps, of the perception that this is still something of

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Moldova: in between a rock and a hard place

Articles / Due Diligence, energy supply, Kremlin, Moldova, Russia, Ukraine / 11/2022

Moldova finds itself in a tricky situation currently. Since the invasion of Ukraine, the neighboring country has struggled to maintain its support for Ukraine and its pro-Western stance while, at the same time, receiving an enormous amount of pressure from Russia. The lack of natural energy resources means Moldova relies heavily on Russian natural gas

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A nightmare on Sadovnicheskaya Street

Articles / China, Due Diligence, Europe, Putin, Russia:Ukraine conflict / 11/2022

Eight months after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, if you had sat Putin down at the start of the war and offered him Russia’s position as it is now – struggling to hold on to territorial gains in the eastern third of the country, an international pariah as far as diplomatic and economic niceties go, and

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Belgium and Russia: More than a Mere footnote?

Articles / Belgium, China, Due Diligence, Europe, Russia, Sanctions / 11/2022

The death of Russian budget supermarket, Mere, in Belgium, just four months after opening can be read either as a cautionary tale of stunningly misreading the public mood on the part of the owners or a surprise that, given the strength of public feeling across Europe to Russian business, it took so long. Either way,

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Erdogan and Turkey: Far from a fairy tale?

Articles / China, Due Diligence, Erdogan, Europe, Russia, Turkey / 11/2022

Amid the war in Ukraine, and the general global climate of instability, it is easy to forget that not so long ago, a military coup was attempted on the edges of Europe. In 2016, a group of elites in Turkey tried to overthrow the Erdogan government on the basis that its retreat from secularism and

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Cyber Security in the Workplace

Articles / China, Cyber Security, Cyber-attacks, Cybercrime, Due Diligence, Russia / 10/2022

IT vs Cybersecurity: Not where the battle lies Information technology (IT) is concerned with the storage and transmission of digital information. Cyber-security is the protection of the same: both the information, and the means by which it is stored or transmitted. It is crucial that the two are never seen as ‘at odds’ with each

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