Investigations

How the Russian state removed the only anti-war party from its ballot without breaking a law – and what it was protecting. On 29 July the Central Election Commission registered … Read More

Russia votes for a new parliament this week. The Kremlin has spent two months making sure nobody notices – and what it did to the one party that offered peace explains why.  … Read More

One notary’s office in Bulgaria. One ministerial appointment in Kyiv. One engineering role that nobody explained. Four years. This is how it ends.  The deed It started with a piece … Read More

Port Pivdennyi has taken missile and drone strikes throughout the war. But something shifted after an appointment made in early 2026. The strikes didn’t come more often. Their aim drastically … Read More

His name is on Ukraine’s national security watchlist. He was formally recruited by the GRU and supervised the dry-dock repair of Russia’s most famous warship in Sevastopol. Today, this man … Read More

In March 2026, Ukraine’s largest commercial seaport got a new director. He had no maritime background, no industry experience, and no obvious reason to be there. Within two months, the … Read More

On a summer morning in 2022, a notary in a small Bulgarian coastal town certified a real estate transaction. It was the first move in a four-year operation. THE TRANSACTION … Read More

A six-part investigation into how Russian intelligence seized Ukraine’s most strategic port, one person at a time WHAT THIS IS In the summer of 2022, while Ukraine was fighting for … Read More

Russia ran a secret cryptocurrency network worth hundreds of millions of dollars through a Western-backed innovation center — the West didn’t stop it, and is not prepared to stop the … Read More

Russia didn’t hide its dirty money in dark corners. It ran its entire secret crypto network through London and Frankfurt, two of the world’s most regulated financial centers THE WRONG … Read More

The most powerful man in Russian politics was also quietly running a secret crypto network from inside Skolkovo THE NAME AT THE TOP Part 5 of this series documented MaxiCo, … Read More

The Kremlin operative who secretly ran a hundred-million dollar cryptocurrency network for Russian intelligence from inside Skolkovo’s innovation center THE THREAD The previous parts of this series followed the money … Read More