
Thomas Rowley
Journalist at Freelance
Journalist, editor. Freelance w/ @icijorg. Ex @opendemocracyru. Interested in 🏛️💵✊in Ukraine, Russia, Europe. Email: [email protected]
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4 weeks 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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2 months ago |
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 @cavidaga: According to her flatmate, one of the police officers threatened her by saying, “I’ll strip you of your xanım-xatınlıq," aski…

.@mediazzzona reports on the horrendous torture faced by 5 Ukrainian men who were detained by Russian forces in Melitopol in 2022. One of them describes how he tried to take his own life after the torture. They have since been sentenced to 11-14 years in prison

К вопросу о журналистике в России. Вот текст про мелитопольскую пятерку. Нахватали людей, дико пытали, судили А мы были на суде и написали текст об этом https://t.co/UfyMvlfNxq

Read this on the change in London's Kilburn just for the incredible line at the end from a long-time Irish resident: “There’s no evidence we were real. We built the roads, we built the tunnels, but we built no pyramids to let the people know we were here.”

Kilburn was once the hub of London's Irish community. Now it's nowhere to be seen. What happened? I wrote about my home of the last four years and London's obsession with commercialised Irishness for @_TheLondoner https://t.co/tRmwFY0CuH