Helsinki had confiscated a cultural center and apartments of diplomats in connection to EU sanctions Russian state property in Helsinki which had been temporarily seized by local authorities has been released, the head of the Finnish Bailiff Department, Aki Virtanen, has told the media. Finnish authorities last week ‘impounded’ a Russian cultural center and diplomatic apartments, in a…

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The property is officially owned by a Russian-Armenian billionaire but prosecutors suspect that energy giant Gazprom is the true beneficiary France has seized a luxurious villa in Cote d’Azur on suspicion that it belongs to Russian energy giant Gazprom, the newspaper Le Monde reported on Monday, citing French prosecutors.