
Thomas Rowley
Journalist at Freelance
Journalist, editor. Ex @opendemocracyru. Interested in 🏛️💵✊in Ukraine, Russia, Europe. Email: [email protected]
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2 months ago |
icij.org | Thomas Rowley |Dean Starkman
Kazakhstan is claiming that a group of international oil companies have been taking a staggering 98% of oil revenue, after modest royalty payments, from the country’s massive Kashagan oil field, according to a confidential interim ruling in a $160 billion arbitration claim seen by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists.
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Feb 19, 2025 |
icij.org | Thomas Rowley
A New York luxury landlord named among the alleged “straw donors” in the criminal case against Mayor Eric Adams has ties to the Uzbek owner of a billion-dollar energy company once co-owned by a Kremlin-run bank.
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Feb 6, 2025 |
icij.org | Thomas Rowley
A U.S. political strategist says an Uzbek businessman asked him to lobby for sanctions against a huge cement manufacturer owned by a political and business rival over the business’s alleged Russia links. Stephen Payne, a top partner in Texas lobbying firm Linden Strategies, says that at his Uzbek client’s behest, he briefed Congressman Wesley Hunt, a Texas Republican, last year about possible sanctions violations by the Uzbek cement company, known as the United Cement Group.
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Nov 22, 2024 |
icij.org | Sydney Freedberg |Agustin Armendariz |Tanya Kozyreva |Thomas Rowley
On a late August afternoon in 2021 the mooring master made a frantic call to a dispatcher at Russia’s largest port, Novorossiysk. “Stop! Stop! Stop loading tanker Minerva Symphony!” he shouted. But the damage had already been done. A floating platform used to load oil onto the Greek tanker had malfunctioned, unleashing a six-foot-high jet of oil into the Black Sea, three miles off the Russian coast.
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Apr 16, 2024 |
bylinetimes.com | Thomas Rowley
Sign up to the Behind the Headlines newsletter (and get a free copy of Byline Times in the post)A Ukrainian court has called Shell’s actions over its joint venture with a sanctioned Russian oligarch “dishonest” – and confiscated a slice of its business in Ukraine.
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RT @ICIJorg: Douglas Edelman rose from owning a bar in Kyrgyzstan to winning $7 billion in defense contracts, only to plead guilty last mon…

The EU's glad-handing of Azerbaijan as it has expelled Armenians from Karabakh, continually threatened war and locked up anyone who dares to question the regime isn't surprising to anyone anymore, but it is incredible to watch

Ulviyya Ali is an Azerbaijani journalist who has been illegally detained in inhumane conditions for weeks now. No EU engagement with Ilham Aliyev has even mentioned her. Azerbaijan should be pressured as hard as possible to release political prisoners. https://t.co/vQ0LEHYGum

RT @Mike_Eckel: Reports that Andriy Portnov, a former adviser to Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych was gunned down today as he was drop…