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Investigations

The GRU’s Hogwarts: Inside Bauman University’s Department 4, an elite spy school for Russian military intelligence

Investigations

Olympic deception: Russia’s doping program is run by the same FSB team that poisoned Navalny

Investigations

Kremlin hotline: Hungary colluded with Russia to delist sanctioned oligarchs, companies and banks

Investigations

Lost in translation: How Russia’s new elite hit squad was compromised by an idiotic lapse in tradecraft

Investigations

“The biggest cover-up of my adult life”: Inside the CIA’s attempt to make Havana Syndrome disappear

POLITICS

Made in Moscow: The “U.S. peace plan” for Ukraine was substantially formulated months ago by Kremlin operative Kirill Dmitriev

Investigations

A champion like no other: The curious life of a Unit 29155 operative

Investigations

Our Jan in Moscow: The secret Russian life of Europe's most notorious fugitive-turned-spy

Investigations

Hidden Bear: The GRU hackers of Russia’s most notorious kill squad

POLITICS

Afgantsy Redux: How Russian military intelligence used the Taliban to bleed U.S. forces at the end of America’s longest war

POLITICS

The GRU vandals: Moscow’s hired thugs are causing mayhem in Estonia

POLITICS

Free Pablo and Fancy Bear: GRU illegal Pavel Rubtsov got a warm welcome home in Moscow by a hacker on the FBI Most Wanted List

POLITICS

“We lost territory while they sent Moscow encouraging news”: Russian official blasts superiors in leaked call amid Ukraine's Kursk offensive

POLITICS

Michelin Red Star: The Insider reveals identity of arrested Russian chef-agent who planned “destabilizing” acts at Paris Olympic Games

POLITICS

Exclusive: Inside Russia’s Latvian Sabotage Squad

POLITICS

“Morality and ethics should play no part”: Leaks reveal how Russia's foreign intelligence agency runs disinformation campaigns in the West

POLITICS

The assistant: Was Tatjana Ždanoka’s European Parliamentary aide hand-picked by her FSB handler?

POLITICS

Dangerous liaisons: New details of Latvian MEP Tatjana Ždanoka’s espionage for Russia

POLITICS

The Kremlin’s latest bait in the Baltics: Immanuel Kant

POLITICS

The Czech illegals: Husband and wife outed as GRU spies aiding bombings and poisonings across Europe

POLITICS

The GRU’s connection to Havana Syndrome: The Insider’s investigative team tells the story behind its most recent bombshell exposé

POLITICS

Unraveling Havana Syndrome: New evidence links the GRU's assassination Unit 29155 to mysterious attacks on U.S. officials and their families

POLITICS

A most wanted man: Fugitive Wirecard COO Jan Marsalek exposed as decade-long GRU spy

POLITICS

How the FSB tried to buy an Italian political party

POLITICS

The enemy within: How Russia's GRU agents blend in with human rights activists, journalists, and filmmakers

POLITICS

The far-right Bundestag aide and his rapping FSB case officer

POLITICS

Exclusive: Latvian Member of European Parliament is an agent of Russian intelligence, leaked emails confirm

POLITICS

No way Jose: “Illegal” GRU agent pretending to be Brazilian researcher in Norway finally admits to being a Russian spy

POLITICS

The hollowing out of America’s strategic enemy has come at a bargain, so why are Republicans so mad about it?

POLITICS

Exclusive: Inside an infamous Russian spy unit’s first bombing in NATO

POLITICS

Exclusive: Estonia’s outgoing military spymaster on Russia’s war

POLITICS

Short circuit: How Europe turns a blind eye to Russia smuggling dual-use microchips

POLITICS

Blood Simple. Several Russian journalists and activists were poisoned in Europe

POLITICS

Exclusive: Russia’s Spies Say Putin Faces More Coups

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