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The Fifth International: The Kremlin’s plan for Europe

Articles / Corruption, Czech republic, Due Diligence, Fraud, Russia, Ukraine / 09/2022

A term that used to refer to the efforts made by groups of socialists and communists to create a new workers' international, the Fifth International now has a different, more sinister meaning. According to historian, Yuri Felshtinsky, Russia has managed to secure its political influence throughout Europe to create pro-Kremlin political parties and groups, and [...]

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Oligarchy in Russia: The Jaws of a dilemma

Articles / Corruption, Due Diligence, Kolomoyskyi, Russia, Ukraine, Zelensky / 09/2022

As Ukraine looks to rebuild both practically and socially (a reconstruction program requiring hundreds of billions of Euros is being put forward and there are tentative plans to restart the country’s football season), the biggest earthquake is yet to come. In an unexpected yet devastating move, President Zelensky has stripped Ukrainian citizenship from Ihor Kolomoyskyi,

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Saudi Arabia: End of an era?

Articles / China, Due Diligence, Russia, Saudi, US-Saudi / 09/2022

Is one of global politics’ most special relationships about to come to an end? Not the one between the USA and UK, but between America and Saudi Arabia. For decades, these two have been close allies on everything from global oil stability to facing down Iran, a relationship not even 9/11 could interrupt. Now, though,

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The magician’s apprentice

Articles / China, Due Diligence, new world order, Russia, Saudi oil, United nations, USA / 09/2022

Dividing lines are all around us, even when we prefer not to see them. The reality of the United Nations contradicts its name, the politicisation of migrants and refugees erects divisions in the mind just as it does in physical terms, and the rising disparity between the rich and the poor (both at individual and

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China and Russia: Moving mountains

Articles / China, Due Diligence, Geopolitics, Russia, USA, Western world / 09/2022

A summit is an appropriate place to talk of mountains, and so Beijing’s description of the Russia-China partnership as, at the recent Shanghai Cooperation Organisation Summit in Samarkand, ‘stable as mountains’ is appropriate, if not entirely true. China has thus far been one of Russia’s few credible allies as the latter’s war in Ukraine stretches

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The goose and the golden egg: Russia

Articles / Moldova, Russia / 08/2022

A storm is coming. Moldova has, for the first time, said ‘no’ to its ex-master Russia, in a row over gas prices. The fuel contract with Russia’s state-owned Gazprom had expired in September, and the two countries had failed to renew their contract due to Russia’s hiking of gas prices. Moldova turned to the EU,

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Sri Lanka: A Rock and a Hard Place

Articles / China, Corruption, Due Diligence, Rajapaksa, Russia, Sri Lanka / 07/2022

After weeks of protest, violence and crises, the Sri Lankans finally have their man. President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned and, as the one held personally responsible for the months of fuel, food and medicine shortages, and the veritable collapse of the Sri Lankan economy, the delight felt by those citizens currently enjoying ‘palace life’ is

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The luxuries of avoiding sanctions

Articles, Russia Ukraine Conflict / Due Diligence, Fraud, Organised crime, Russia, Sanctions / 07/2022

Global sanctions on Russia continue apace, and there are rare admissions from within the country that these are working. Transport Minister, Vitaly Savelyev, has indicated that current trade logistics have been ‘virtually wrecked’, and the news that McDonalds and Starbucks are to permanently leave the country is, to the ordinary Russian, just as disappointing as

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Africa and Russia: It takes two

Articles, Russia Ukraine Conflict / Africa, Due Diligence, Oil & Gas, Russia, supply chains, Western world / 06/2022

While most of the world has condemned the Russian invasion of Ukraine, one region has been far less forthcoming than most in registering its opposition. This is Africa, where half of the continent’s representatives in the UN failed to support the initial resolution demanding an immediate end to the invasion and from which condemnation has

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KCS Group Europe welcomes Andrew Fulton and Sue Kennedy to the team

KCS Group Asia News / Austria, Greenland, Russia / 06/2022

KCS Group Europe appoints Andrew Fulton and Sue Kennedy DUAL FORCE…FULTON & KENNEDY – THE WAY FORWARD To read more, please click here.

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