Not long after imposing sanctions on wood imports from Russia and Belarus, Europe saw an influx of wood supposedly coming from Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan. Authorities say sanctions-busters are increasingly mislabeling wood as Central Asian so they can keep bringing it in to the EU.
information on the assets of sanctioned Russian billionaires, servants and propagandists in Europe, USA, and elsewhere after Russia's invasion of Ukraine. In few weeks, we found over 150 properties - villas, flats, yachts, private planes - worth over 17.5 billions US dollars. The Usmanov, Tokarev and Mazepin families own property in Latvia, but some of them won't be touched until the sanctions are extended to the family members of Putin's inner circle.
On Jan 31, 2022, the last trains carrying sanctioned Belarussian potash fertilizers were supposed to cross Lithuanian territory.
The regional court in Riga has found the owner of the Baltic - Russian media powerhouse and his Estonian side-kick guilty of breaching EU sanctions against Russia and fined over three million euros in the biggest criminal case of this kind the Baltic country has seen so far.
Despite harsh EU sanctions, Belarussian oil exports to Estonia reached record levels in 2021. Here's how the trade, initiated by the oligarch nicknamed the ”energy wallet of Lukashenko", has been set up.
The events organised by anti-vaxxers and Covid-19 restriction deniers, begs the question – who is paying for all of this? Until now it has been hard to find sources of organised, external funding so Re:Baltica looked into the main disinformation spreaders and the way that they live.