$500 Million Megayacht Nord Reemerges at Anchor After Successfully Escaping Sanctions
8 Oct 2022, 08:29 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / Believed to be owned by billionaire Alexey Mordashov, Nord has been MIA since sanctions went into effect earlier this year. It’s now at anchor in Hong Kong
Hushed Sale of $30 Million Superyacht MySky Is Exposed, Might Flaunt Sanctions
6 Oct 2022, 04:57 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / Sanctioned oligarchs are trying to find loopholes to avoid sanctions, and the suspicious listing of Igor Kesaev’s spectacular superyacht could be one such case
Putin’s $119 Million Superyacht Graceful Is Now Called Killer Whale, On the Move Again
5 Oct 2022, 03:26 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / Graceful fled Germany before work on it was completed and retired to Kaliningrad. It’s on the move again, heading to St. Petersburg under a new name
Bruce Willis Is the First Big Star to Sell His Likeness to Deepfake Company
30 Sep 2022, 12:20 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / Deepcake now owns the rights to a “digital twin” for the actor, and will be able to get it to appear in projects the real Willis is no longer available for
Seized $600 Million Megayacht Dilbar Raided While Sitting in Floating Dock
29 Sep 2022, 09:29 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / German authorities have raided Dilbar in search for evidence of tax evasion on part of its direct beneficiary, billionaire Alisher Usmanov
Scuderia Ferrari Changes Cybersecurity Team Partner, Retains Team Principal
28 Sep 2022, 19:44 UTC · By: Sebastian Toma / After silently eliminating its former cybersecurity partner a few months ago, Scuderia Ferrari has announced a new Team Partner, Bitdefender
Private Jets Are Now One of the Most Coveted Assets in Russia, Charter Prices Explode
28 Sep 2022, 05:06 UTC · By: Otilia Drăgan / Russian men are desperately trying to flee the country, but there aren't enough private jets available to meet the booming demand
Billionaire’s Seized $75 Million Superyacht Sells at Auction at Half Its Value
28 Sep 2022, 03:36 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / The auction on Axioma, the first seized superyacht to sell without the owner’s say-so, has finalized and will be completed within 60 days
Remembering the Ice G-Wagon, the Coolest G-Class Tribute That Ever Was
27 Sep 2022, 06:23 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / Making a piece of functional art is not easy, especially if that piece of art happens to be a G-Wagon SUV tribute with a body made entirely out of ice
The Strange Case of the Move of World’s Largest Megayacht, the $600 Million Dilbar
27 Sep 2022, 04:03 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / Owned by Russian billionaire Alisher Usmanov, Dilbar was seized in March and held at a Lurssen shipyard. Reports say it’s about to be reunited with the owner
Roman Abramovich’s Custom Private Jet Is Still Being Used – To Rescue Prisoners of War
26 Sep 2022, 10:05 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / The sanctioned Russian oligarch reportedly played a key role in getting over 200 prisoners released in a swap, flew some of them on his private jet
Toyota Finally Says “Do Svidaniya” to Vehicle Production in Russia
23 Sep 2022, 19:05 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / Instead of condemning Russia's invasion of Ukraine, Toyota hoped that things would go back to normal in no time. Toyota couldn't have been more wrong, though
Seized $600 Million Megayacht Dilbar Has Left Port in the Middle of the Night
22 Sep 2022, 06:17 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / Shipyard Lurssen has vacated the dry dock in Hamburg, moving the gigantic 2016 vessel to a storage facility in Bremen, Germany
The Soviet Union Took Mail Delivery Pretty Seriously Back in the Late ‘50s
17 Sep 2022, 20:34 UTC · By: Codrin Spiridon / In case you ever wondered how mail was being delivered in the late '50s in northern Russia, the short answer is by an airplane engine strapped to a car
And So It Begins: Billionaire Sues Government for the Right to Use His Frozen Yachts
17 Sep 2022, 04:13 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / Alexey Kuzmichev, often described as one of the most powerful men in Russia, says he should be allowed to use his 2 vessels, even though they’re frozen
President Zelensky Involved in Car Crash, Walks Away With No Serious Injuries
15 Sep 2022, 05:23 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / A car crashed into the President’s convoy in the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv, and the driver required assistance. The incident is under investigation
$600 Million Megayacht Scheherazade Was a Christmas Gift From Putin's Friends
11 Sep 2022, 05:36 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / 2014 was a good year for President Putin, and his oligarch friends celebrated it by chipping in to buy him one of the most expensive megayachts in the world
Soul-Sniffing BMW 7 Series Shows the Brand's Future Design Language in Russia
9 Sep 2022, 12:50 UTC · By: Cristian Gnaticov / If you look closely, you will see a car attached to that ginormous grille-mimicking wrap, and it is the still-pretty previous-gen BMW 7 Series
Uber Partnered With the Ukrainian Ministry of Culture to Help Rescue National Treasures
9 Sep 2022, 08:25 UTC · By: Mircea Mazuru / Uber is one of the companies that have provided aid in the ongoing war. One of its initiatives is Uber Restore, a service meant to preserve Ukraine's culture
Seized $75 Million Superyacht Axioma Is Going Back to Its Sanctioned Oligarch Owner
31 Aug 2022, 09:40 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / The sale of this controversial superyacht proves just how inefficient sanctions are: reports say it’s on its way back to the original owner