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MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russian President Vladimir Putin on Sunday signed a decree clearing the way for Rosbank to purchase stakes in leading Russian companies owned by Societe Generale. The decree said that Rosbank will be able to buy SocGen's stakes in energy producers such as Rosneft and Gazprom, metals companies including Norilsk Nickel and Severstal, and other leading Russian blue chip firms. Societe Generale declined to comment.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a decree allowing Rosbank to purchase stakes in leading Russian companies owned by Societe Generale. The decree allows Rosbank to buy SocGens stakes in energy producers, metals companies, and other leading Russian blue chip firms. The bank had an exposure of 22.4 billion euros to Russia as of end-June 2021.

Welcome to Investigative Stories from Ukraine, the Kyiv Independent's newsletter that walks you through the most prominent investigations of the past week. If you are fond of in-depth journalism that exposes war crimes, corruption, and abuse of power across state organizations in Ukraine and beyond, subscribe to our investigative newsletter. Italian steel giant Danieli had contributed to Russian steel production since 2014, when Russia first invaded Ukriane, and continued doing business w...

After Russia seized Crimea and unleashed the war in the Donbas in 2014, the Italian Danieli Group grew to become a major player in the Russian steel industry, the engine of Putin’s war machine. Danieli, which sells and services equipment for steel plants, has since worked with at least 14 Russian metal companies, including six that contribute to the Russian military industry. Danieli didn’t leave the Russian market when Russia started its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022 an...

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After President Biden made international news for agreeing in a 2021 televised interview that Vladimir Putin was "a killer," a German news service asked journalist Hubert Seipel for his expert take. Seipel, who happened to have just published a book about Russia, agreed to share his opinion.Subscribe to The Post Most newsletter for the most important and interesting stories from The Washington Post. What was not disclosed at the time - either to his readers or the fellow journalists wh...

Hubert Seipel has written books portraying Putin in a favourable light. We now know he received 600,000 euros from a close ally of the Russian president.

Cyprus Confidential: ICIJ-led investigation reveals how Mediterranean island ignores Russian atrocities and western sanctions to cash in on Putin’s oligarchs

Cyprus has long drawn criticism for providing offshore financial services for people associated with corrupt regimes and businesses.

The revelation that the broadcaster Hubert Seipel received hundreds of thousands of euros from an oligarch is stirring worries in Germany that Russia is using an old playbook to promote its interests.