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Moscow 1996, vote or lose!
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Putin’s ‘junta’ and why Ukraine marks its downfall
Exiled Russian oligarch Sergei Pugachev, who became dubbed “the Kremlin’s banker”, was once part of Vladimir Putin’s inner circle, until
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The Kremlin is not yet aware of changes in the case of ex-Senator Pugachev
The Kremlin is not yet aware of changes in the case of ex-Senator Pugachev Press Secretary of the President of
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The Paris Court of Appeal has decided to open an investigation into the trial of former Mezhprombank owner Sergei Pugachev
PARIS, September 29. / TASS /. The Paris Court of Appeal has decided to open an investigation into the trial
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The Power of Money: How Autocrats Use London to Strike Foes Worldwide
Olena Tyshchenko, a lawyer based in Britain, was facing years in a crowded Russian prison cell, when a chance at
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On the 2th of November, Mr. Pugachev’s lawyers filed an appeal against the award of the Hague Tribunal made on
On June 18, 2020, the Hague Tribunal made a ruling based on the hearings held last November in Paris. The
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Decision of the last session of the Hague Tribunal on the claim of Sergei Pugachev against the Russian Federation
Today it became known about the decision of the last session of the Hague Tribunal on the claim of Sergei
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BBC Two Documentary Premiere
Stand-alone doc The Countess & The Russian Billionaire steps inside the secret world of Russian oligarch Sergei Pugachev and his
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Putin’s People: How the KGB Took Back Russia and Then Took on the West
It was late in the evening in May 2015, and Sergei Pugachev was flicking through an old family photo album
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BBC2 docs probe lives of super rich
UK pubcaster BBC2 has picked up two factual shows detailing the lives of the super rich, titled Inside Monaco and
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Sergei Pugachev’s 12 Billion Dollars Claim against Russian Federation in The Hague International Tribunal
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FSB colonel Cherkalin has testified against Miroshnikov, former deputy head of the DIA.
FSB colonel Cherkalin has testified against Miroshnikov, former deputy head of the DIA. The latter is charged with setting up
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Sergei Pugachev, the oligarch who claims 12 billion from Putin.
INVESTIGATION – The Russian billionaire used to be the owner of shipyards, coal mines and of Hédiard. Fallen from grace,
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Former banker Pugachev complained to Putin of threats received from runaway Miroshnikov
It has become known to The Bell that the former owner of Mezhprombank, Sergei Pugachev, wrote a letter to Vladimir
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Bloomberg: Why Pugachev is suing Russia for $12 billion
The renowned author and journalist Leonid Bershidsky wrote today in his Bloomberg View column...
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Russia seeks to seize Russian billionaire’s property on the French Riviera… Oligarch takes the upper hand in legal battle
By Christophe Perrin, 30 January 2019. 6.30 a.m.   On Tuesday 29 January, the Civil Court of Nice, France, rejected
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David Goldberg comments on Sergei Pugachev’s claim
The head of the legal team of White & Case, representing Russia in the process of Sergei Pugachev against the
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NYT: Tycoon on the Run Hopes Russia’s Reach Stops at the French Riviera’s Edge
Sergei Pugachev gave the interview to New York Times
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Sergei Pugachev for the Guardian: “Putin is the richest person in the World as long as he stays in power”
The Guardian interviews Sergei Pugachev for the first time since he left Britain +VIDEO
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Suspected homemade car bomb found by Sergei Pugachev who has accused Kremlin of trying to kill him
Sergei Pugachev said he is the target of a “KGB-style” campaign of terror after the devices were found under his
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Sergei Pugachev for The Financial Times: “I personally brought Putin to power”
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VIDEO: Sergei Pugachev on the French news programme Le Grand Journal
Sergei Pugachev appeared on a popular French nightly news and talk show Le Grand Journal...
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VIDEO: The pro-Kremlin media reaction following Sergei Pugachev’s international arbitration case launch
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BBC: Putin: The New Tsar
How did a poor boy from a tiny flat in St Petersburg become one of the world’s most powerful leaders?
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Till Putin Do Us Part: Oligarch’s Ex-Wife Is Taking On Russia
The ex-wife of an exiled oligarch is at the center of his court battle with the Russian state, with each
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The Rise and Fall of an FSB-Run Money Laundering Empire
The Bell and investigative website The Project looked into an FSB backed financial empire, and why it all fell apart.
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THE FEDERAL RESERVE(S) An enquiry into how the FSB is ‘sheltering’ banks
  PROEKT — ‘Corruption fights’ cycle THE FEDERAL RESERVE(S) An enquiry into how the FSB is ‘sheltering’ banks By Anastasia
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Ex-Kremlin banker: Billionaire Pugachev wins French reprieve from $1.5B fine
By Agence France-Presse Former oligarch Sergei Pugachev won Tuesday a French ruling against Russian judicial proceedings that might save him
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Top officials invited to The Hague Tribunal to testify in $12 bln case “Sergei Pugachev VS Russia”
Audit Chamber head Aleksei Kudrin ( Deputy Prime Minister of Russia from May 2000 to March 2004 and from September
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The War between oligarch Pugachev and Putin is imported to nice
This may exacerbate the outflow of capital from Russia. “Today, Russia is threatening the entrepreneur with confiscation of all his
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S. Pugachev talks about Khodorkovsky’s arrest, the roots of the Russian business in the UK, & the High Court of
“I advised him to leave Russia with the money”: Sergei Pugachev, former advisor to Putin, talks about Khodorkovsky’s arrest, the
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Russian banker loses £9m London home in legal fight with Moscow
Court rules Russian state creditors own house of Sergei Pugachev, who claims Putin wants to kill him
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Russian billionaire banker forced to sell 9 million £ Chelsea mansion
Russian countess faces eviction as her billionaire banker ex who claims to be on a Putin death list is forced
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Tory peers told to come clean about Russia links
Peers across parties are on Russian payroll The security minister has turned down a meeting with a Tory peer who
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«Putin committed very many crimes against me»
Interview to DW
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“They spoil his sport”
‘They spoil his sport’: a political analyst explains why Putin has undesirable people killed :
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«Putin committed very many crimes against me»
Interview to DW
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How Putin’s Oligarchs Got Inside the Trump Team
“He was a black box,” recalls Sergei Pugachev, the financier behind the meeting, who was once known as the Kremlin’s
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Sergei Pugachev asks Supreme Court to overturn $1 bln ruling against him
Ex-Russian senator Sergei Pugachev has filed a claim with the Supreme Court seeking to overturn a ruling to recover 75.6
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Moscow court upholds recovery of $1.1 billion from Sergei Pugachev
The Moscow District Commercial Court has upheld rulings of lower courts recovering 75.6 billion rubles (about $1.1 billion) from Russian
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Britain is most corrupt country on Earth,
says Mafia expert Roberto Saviano.
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Spy mystery: Traitors are not safe on British soil, says Russia
Russian state television, a mouthpiece of the Kremlin, has warned “traitors” not to settle in Britain because of the risk
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Sergei Pugachev: ‘Great Britain is fairly corrupt and notoriously slow-moving’
Ex-senator Sergei Pugachev told the television channel Dozhd of the assassination attempt directed against him in England.
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Pugachev for the Financial Times: Businessmen are ‘serfs’ in Putin’s Russia
Sergei Pugachev in his first interview since the state seized his multibillion-dollar ship building empire...
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Anna Stavitskaia: “The tribunal failed to provide Sergei Pugachev with a chance to set forth his arguments”
Sergei Pugachev’s lawyer comments on the decision of the Appellate Court dated 8 February 2018
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Hand over the dough or DIA…
How the Deposit Insurance Agency (DIA) wrings money out of Russian citizens, while its head Yuri Isaev puts a brave
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Further to DIA’s communiqué dated 31 January 2018
The Deposit Insurance Agency (DIA) and its legal counsels have no authority to represent the interests of Mezhprombank.
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Sergei Pugachev commented on the verdict to Alexei Ulyukayev
On the air of the TV channel “Rain”
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Sergei Pugachev in pursuit of Russian billions
The former close friend of President Vladimir Putin, residing in France, claims being victim of an orderly expropriation of assets.
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Sergei Pugachev for Politique Internationale: “The hawks have won”
Interview with Sergei Pugachev, by Isabelle Lasserre
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The Kremlin’s Western Lawyers
Russia is increasingly turning to armies of legal professionals to press its interests and bully its detractors in the West.
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Sergei Pugachev: Putin knows that he is a dictator
Interview of Sergei Pugachev to publicist Zoya Svetova
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The deadline for delivery of the frigate «Admiral Gorshkov» may be postponed again
The warship whose construction began in 2006, at the time of Sergei Pugachev, remains unfinished
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«Putin is not a man of religious faith»
Sergei Pugachev tells how he introduced Shevkunov to the President and whether the latter has a «confessor».
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“Vladimir Putin is a rather private man”
The interview of Sergei Pugachev on Radio Svoboda
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Deputy Minister of transportation of the Russian Federation Alan Lushnikov about the Kyzyl-Kuragino railroad
«When an investor becomes financially involved in an infrastructure project, it is paramount for him that risks should be properly
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Commentary on The Times about Alexandra Tolstoy
Sergei Pugachev gave a comment to the correspondent of The Times David Brown.
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Interview of Sergey Pugachev to the TV Rain
He is suing Russia for 12 billion dollars. Russia has issued an international arrest warrant against him. Kremlin’s banker, an
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15 years of terrorist attack on Dubrovka (Nord-Ost)
Sergey Pugachev on Radio Svoboda
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“If 2 million people go and vote for him, he can just walk into the Kremlin and be inaugurated”
Sergei Pugachev on the chances of Navalny to get into the Kremlin
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“A state machine’s game in which everyone hates each other”
Sergei Pugachev on the “unique opportunity” Sechin, which he received beside to Putin.
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“Putin is a man that has never stood for election nor was ever elected”
Sergei Pugachev on how Putin became president.
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Sergey Pugachev about Putin, Sechin and Navalny
He is suing Russia for 12 billion dollars; Russia has issued an international arrest warrant against him.
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The Kremlin pays for loyalty
What cost to the state Trustees of Vladimir Putin
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Exclusive interview of Sergey Pugachev to the television channel “Rain”
He is suing Russia for 12 billion dollars. Russia has issued an international arrest warrant against him.
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Sergei Pugachev told about an attempt by Prosecutor General Chaika’s son to seize Putin’s residence
This is what he told TV channel Dozhd in an interview.
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Sergey Pugachev challenges recovery of $1.3 bln because of new evidence
Sergey Pugachev has filed an application with the Moscow Commercial Court seeking to overturn a ruling requiring him and other
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“Putin said, “All they need is a tsar”
Sergei Pugachev about his bygone friendship with the president and his claim for 6 billion dollars against the Russian Federation.
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“Fanatic judge”
Economist Sergei Aleksashenko about the verdict to Dmitri Amunts
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Interview with Sergei Pugachev on TV Rain
The ex-head of Rostourism  was sentenced to 7 years in prison.
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Russia asked the Hague Tribunal to classify as secret the hearings on Sergei Pugachev’s claim
Currently, the Hague International Tribunal is considering a claim filed by Sergei Pugachev against  the Russian Federation on compensation of
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Chances for extradition of Pugachev to Russia are close to zero
Comments of an expert on the request of the Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation about the extradition of Sergei
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Sergei Pugachev in the program of TV channel France 2 “Putin’s Secret”
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Arbitration panel formed for hearing $12 bln claim lodged by Sergei Pugachev
The Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA) at The Hague has formed a panel of arbitrators for considering a claim filed
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The DIA is going out of business
Why the Central Bank decided to close the “collections chapter” of the story of the Deposit Insurance Agency
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Danger Forum!
he 20th International Economic Forum opened June 16 in St Petersburg. If the St Petersburg forum hadn’t played a dirty trick on
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“Hold on here. I wish you all the best, a good mood and good health”
(A quote from Dmitry Medvedev, the Russian prime minister, after telling pensioners in Crimea May 23 2016 there is no
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Russian money in England
It turned out that Russian oligarchs are not just buying mansions, but also academic societies
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Trust Quarterly Review: And what’s yours is mine too
Power, control and ownership: offshore structures under attack in recent commercial cases.
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Le Nouvel Observateur: Khodorkovsky, Pugachev… Putin owes billions to the oligarchs
In Moscow, Tsar Putin has the power to make and unmake fortunes at will...
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PRESS RELEASE: Official Statement by Sergei Pugachev’s Press Office
In response to recent publications in the Russian media...
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Sergei Pugachev on Putin’s control of the Russian media in the latest biographical read on Russia’s President
The author, quoting Sergei Pugachev from an interview conducted in 2014, wrote the following in regards to the 2001 seizure
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Sergei Pugachev in the big read of the French magazine Paris Match
French businessman tells Paris Match how his empire was stolen by Putin's lieutenants...
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The reaction of the Russian Parliament following Sergei Pugachev’s international arbitration claim launch
The Russian newspaper ‘Novye Vedomosti’ reported that the prospect of the recovery of $12 billion...
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Pugachev could win the arbitration case against Russia due to deterioration of foreign relations
The article published by the Russian newspaper ‘Obschaya Gazeta’ refers to the recent comment...
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Moscow Chief Arbitrator: Pugachev’s arbitration claim could be awarded as early as within six months
The president of the Moscow Court of Arbitration, Alexey Kravtsov, stated...
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Pugachev for Reuters: ”Putin is a hostage of his entourage”
The Reuters London bureau chief Guy Faulconbridge exclusively interviewed Pugachev...
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Sergei Pugachev in an interview with the French newspaper Le Figaro
Isabelle Lasserre interviews Pugachev for the French newspaper Le Figaro...
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PRESS RELEASE: International Arbitration Claim Launch
Pugachev Files International Arbitration Against the Russian Federation...
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Sky News: Sergei Pugachev now lives in hiding as he takes on the Russian state
Sam Kiley, the Sky News Foreign Affairs Editor, visits Sergei Pugachev to discuss the upcoming litigation process against the Kremlin...
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PRESS RELEASE: Pugachev Forced to Leave London Due to Severe Threats Against His Life
Sergei Pugachev, a French citizen, former Russian Senator and business magnate is confirming today that he was forced to leave
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TV Rain: Sergei Pugachev on his role in the election of President Putin
The former Senator Sergei Pugachev gave an interview to the independent Russian TV channel Dozhd (TV Rain), in which he
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FT: Extradition attempt is political ploy, says Sergei Pugachev
Neil Buckley, Eastern Europe Editor of the Financial Times interviewed Sergei Pugachev...
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Pugachev for the FT: The Russian Government had abused the London court proceedings
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Sergei Pugachev welcomes the decision of the London Court of Appeal
The Appeal court of London has rendered its decision in respect of three appeals…
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Pugachev for Bloomberg: The Russian authorities are misusing Interpol
The article published by the Bloomberg stated that "Sergei Pugachyov, a former banker...
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PRESS RELEASE: Sergei Pugachev denies allegations of intentional bankruptcy and misappropriation
The Moscow City Court on Monday upheld the refusal of the Basmanny District Court to arrest businessman Sergei Pugachev...