He agreed to pay $507 million last year to settle a tax fraud case in the United States.
Tinkov has also run into trouble in the West. “Oleg has not been in Moscow for many years, did not participate in the life of the company and was not involved in any matters,” Tinkoff said in a statement. Putin, appeared to be distancing itself from its founder. Tinkov had sold his entire stake in the company to a firm run by Vladimir Potanin, a mining magnate close to Mr. Tinkov started in 2006, denied his characterization of events and said there had been “no threats of any kind against the bank’s leadership.” The bank, which announced last Thursday that Mr. The Kremlin did not respond to a request for comment. But of course, I had no idea that it would take on such catastrophic scale.” “I believed that the Putin regime was bad.
“I’ve realized that Russia, as a country, no longer exists,” Mr. Tinkov spoke out more forcefully against the war than has any other major Russian business leader. Tinkov claimed that many of his acquaintances in the business and government elite told him privately that they agreed with him, “but they are all afraid.” Using a Tinkoff Bank mobile card to make a purchase in Omsk in March. While some gas stations have closed in the city because of fuel shortages, Maria’s station has remained open because of its extensive food and snack selection, making it a popular stop for soldiers, volunteers, medical workers and police officers who continue to stream through her doors. One officer walked in Sunday afternoon asking if he could fill up his cruiser without the prepaid gas card. Meanwhile, the military has a separate arrangement where they can continue to get gas for their vehicles, she added. The company has instructed her that only civilians with prepaid gas cards can get fuel, and usually only around five liters (about a gallon). Despite the attacks, a shortage of this scale was the first since the war began in February, she said. Maria, who did not provide her last name because she feared for her safety, said that her station’s regular supply of fuel did not arrive two days ago. Morning rush hour is still noticeable, traffic lights still work and street cleaners continue to carry out their duties. And though many have fled, a large population still remains. Kharkiv was once Ukraine’s second largest city at roughly 1.4 million people. “What do I do? How can I explain to people that this is not my fuel station and it’s not me who’s deciding how many liters of petroleum anyone gets?” said Maria, the manager of an Okko fuel station in the city center. Russia’s foreign minister claimed that nearly a million people had been moved to Russia from Ukraine in voluntary “evacuations.”
Russian attacks on fuel depots and other infrastructure in Ukraine have led to shortages of gasoline, with drivers lining up outside gas stations. In territory controlled by Russia, including the southern region of Kherson, the occupying forces were trying to solidify control and taking steps to erase Ukrainian identity. The Russian Defense Ministry said on Sunday that it had struck 800 targets across Ukraine over the past day, including a hangar in the port city of Odesa that it said was storing weapons and ammunition delivered to Ukraine by the United States and Europe. Ukrainian officials in the Luhansk and Donetsk regions reported fierce battles as Russian tank columns tried to push into areas that Moscow’s forces have pounded with artillery fire. Pelosi and a few fellow Democratic lawmakers was kept secret until they returned to Poland, where they held a news conference on Sunday morning and vowed to back Ukraine “until victory is won.”Īn evacuation of civilians from Mariupol was underway as women and children confined to bunkers beneath a sprawling steel plant started to make their way to safety, according to Ukrainian officials and the United Nations. Pelosi announced on Sunday that she had met with President Volodymyr Zelensky and had pledged “to help the Ukrainian people as they defend democracy for their nation and for the world.” General Gerasimov’s visit was an effort to change the eastern offensive’s direction, a Ukrainian official said, as Russian forces have been able to make only incremental gains there so far.