InvestigationsUninvited guest: How a GRU spy connected to state hackers broke into the African Union’s diplomatic residence in EthiopiaMichael WeissRoman DobrokhotovOctober 23, 2026
Investigations“Write like a 38-year-old Israeli woman”: The Kremlin used fake media and fabricated “experts” to spread disinformation in IsraelDada LyndellNANikita AronovOctober 22, 2026
InvestigationsPutin’s “Doppelgängers”: The Insider gets inside the operations of the Kremlin's foreign disinformation networkDada LyndellOctober 21, 2026
InvestigationsChemical brother: Russia’s production of explosives and ammunition is heavily dependent on Chinese chemicalsAZAndrey ZayakinOctober 20, 2026
InvestigationsThe fall of the “Godfather”: How Putin’s former bodyguard helped bring down an FSB generalSergey KanevOctober 15, 2026
InvestigationsChina’s drone modem pipeline: How mesh technology helps Russian UAVs penetrate deep into UkraineAZAndrey ZayakinRXRyan XOctober 14, 2026
InvestigationsThe Kremlin’s faction in the European Parliament: Meet the MEPs still traveling to Russia to meet politicians, officials and even spiesSergei EzhovOctober 14, 2026
InvestigationsThe GRU’s dud drone: How Russian intelligence botched a sabotage plot at Leipzig airportRoman DobrokhotovChristo GrozevOctober 8, 2026
InvestigationsHunting for cannon fodder: How Russia's private recruitment market for the war in Ukraine really worksNastya LukinaIvan AstashinOctober 6, 2026
InvestigationsFrom Russia with “Russophobia”: Kremlin propaganda accounts are posing as “angry Latvians” to influence the country’s Telegram communitiesAnastasia MikhaylovaMPMaya PetrovaEOEvgeniya ObrosovaSeptember 26, 2026
InvestigationsBaltic export: The Insider identifies the Russian agents of influence working to destabilize Latvia's upcoming electionsSergey KanevSeptember 14, 2026
Investigations“Shielded his comrades with his body”: How Russian propaganda turned a pedophile fugitive into a war heroSergey KanevSeptember 3, 2026
InvestigationsA familiar business: Russia’s trade missions are replacing GRU spies with the friends and relatives of influential officialsSergey KanevAugust 28, 2026
InvestigationsExplosive growth: Russia has tripled explosives production but still depends on ammunition from North KoreaAZAndrey ZayakinAugust 27, 2026
InvestigationsUnwilling “terrorists”: The Insider speaks with the men the Kremlin accuses of bombing the Kerch Strait BridgeAnastasia MikhaylovaAugust 6, 2026
InvestigationsDrone power: Russia is building a lithium-ion battery industry for UAVs using Chinese and Korean materialsAZAndrey ZayakinAugust 5, 2026
InvestigationsA new Comintern: How the Kremlin lures Western “socialists” into the Russian armyARAlexei RemizovAugust 3, 2026
InvestigationsLetting the genie out of the bottleneck: Russia is ramping up mass production of drone motorsAZAndrey ZayakinRXRyan XJuly 30, 2026
InvestigationsBeryllium on the radar: Kazakhstan has become an indispensable supplier of materials to the Russian defense industryAZAndrey ZayakinJuly 27, 2026
InvestigationsCrewing the shadows: The Insider exposes the firms staffing Russia’s sanctions-busting fleet of oil tankers and explains why they matterAZAndrey ZayakinJuly 15, 2026
InvestigationsShooting Starlink: The “no limits” partnership between Russia and China is taking aim at Elon MuskMichael WeissRoman DobrokhotovChristo GrozevJuly 9, 2026
InvestigationsThe things they shipped: Lithuanian businessmen supplied Russia with Starlink terminals and drone motors during the warAZAndrey ZayakinŠČŠarūnas ČerniauskasGKGabija KučinskaitėJuly 6, 2026
InvestigationsNot so strange bedfellows: An aspiring MAGA influencer’s Russian friend turns out to be an FSB officer with ties to the Wagner GroupThe InsiderJune 24, 2026
InvestigationsNot-so-secret services: One of Russia’s most highly classified officials has a social media problemSergey KanevJune 19, 2026
Investigations“This propaganda works”: How two Brazilian TikTokers got rich recruiting for the Russian armyIva TsoyJune 17, 2026
InvestigationsFake foreigners, fugitive criminals, and Holocaust deniers: Who ended up in Moscow’s “international tribunal on crimes of Ukrainian Nazis”Sergey KanevJune 4, 2026
Investigations“Pashinyan’s illness,” “looming war with Russia,” and “gas chambers on Mount Ararat”: Moscow floods Armenia with disinfo ahead of electionsDada LyndellMay 29, 2026
InvestigationsStrong Armenia party leader Samvel Karapetyan revealed as nominal owner of villa on French Riviera used by Putin’s partner Alina KabaevaLusine MovsesianMay 25, 2026
InvestigationsGrabbing him by the “Beard”: The Insider identifies the FSB, GRU, and SVR agents Russia sent to Armenia to take on PM Nikol PashinyanSergey KanevMay 19, 2026
InvestigationsGeraniums in bloom: The Insider and Nordsint reveal how a large Chinese firm supplies Russian drone productionRXRyan XMay 8, 2026
InvestigationsThe GRU’s Hogwarts: Inside Bauman University’s Department 4, an elite spy school for Russian military intelligenceMichael WeissKato KopaleishviliFidelius SchmidACAlexander ChernyshevMay 7, 2026
InvestigationsOlympic deception: Russia’s doping program is run by the same FSB team that poisoned NavalnyMichael WeissRoman DobrokhotovChristo GrozevApril 18, 2026
Investigations“Matryoshka” enters the fray: The Kremlin and the GRU are spreading disinformation in Hungary ahead of its pivotal parliamentary electionDada LyndellApril 11, 2026
Investigations“A medal for the city of Budapest”: Who at the Russian Embassy in Hungary is helping “Kremlin ally” Viktor Orbán in the upcoming elections?Sergey KanevApril 8, 2026
InvestigationsBad chemistry: Who synthesized the poison that killed Navalny and what a subsidiary of a German company has to do with itAZAndrey ZayakinRoman DobrokhotovTOTimur OlevskyMarch 31, 2026
InvestigationsKremlin hotline: Hungary colluded with Russia to delist sanctioned oligarchs, companies and banksWojciech CieślaAnna GielewskaSzabolcs PanyiHolger RoonemaaMichael WeissLukáš DikoIlya BerKato KopaleishviliMarch 31, 2026
