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From Russia with “Russophobia”: Kremlin propaganda accounts are posing as “angry Latvians” to influence the country’s Telegram communities

From Russia with “Russophobia”: Kremlin propaganda accounts are posing as “angry Latvians” to influence the country’s Telegram communities

Anastasia Mikhaylova

Evgeniya Obrosova

Baltic export: The Insider identifies the Russian agents of influence working to destabilize Latvia's upcoming elections

Baltic export: The Insider identifies the Russian agents of influence working to destabilize Latvia's upcoming elections

“Shielded his comrades with his body”: How Russian propaganda turned a pedophile fugitive into a war hero

“Shielded his comrades with his body”: How Russian propaganda turned a pedophile fugitive into a war hero

A familiar business: Russia’s trade missions are replacing GRU spies with the friends and relatives of influential officials

A familiar business: Russia’s trade missions are replacing GRU spies with the friends and relatives of influential officials

Explosive growth: Russia has tripled explosives production but still depends on ammunition from North Korea

Explosive growth: Russia has tripled explosives production but still depends on ammunition from North Korea

Unwilling “terrorists”: The Insider speaks with the men the Kremlin accuses of bombing the Kerch Strait Bridge

Unwilling “terrorists”: The Insider speaks with the men the Kremlin accuses of bombing the Kerch Strait Bridge

Anastasia Mikhaylova

Drone power: Russia is building a lithium-ion battery industry for UAVs using Chinese and Korean materials

Drone power: Russia is building a lithium-ion battery industry for UAVs using Chinese and Korean materials

A new Comintern: How the Kremlin lures Western “socialists” into the Russian army

A new Comintern: How the Kremlin lures Western “socialists” into the Russian army

Letting the genie out of the bottleneck: Russia is ramping up mass production of drone motors

Letting the genie out of the bottleneck: Russia is ramping up mass production of drone motors

Beryllium on the radar: Kazakhstan has become an indispensable supplier of materials to the Russian defense industry

Beryllium on the radar: Kazakhstan has become an indispensable supplier of materials to the Russian defense industry

Crewing the shadows: The Insider exposes the firms staffing Russia’s sanctions-busting fleet of oil tankers and explains why they matter

Crewing the shadows: The Insider exposes the firms staffing Russia’s sanctions-busting fleet of oil tankers and explains why they matter

Shooting Starlink: The “no limits” partnership between Russia and China is taking aim at Elon Musk

Shooting Starlink: The “no limits” partnership between Russia and China is taking aim at Elon Musk

Roman Dobrokhotov

The things they shipped: Lithuanian businessmen supplied Russia with Starlink terminals and drone motors during the war

The things they shipped: Lithuanian businessmen supplied Russia with Starlink terminals and drone motors during the war

Šarūnas Černiauskas

Gabija Kučinskaitė

Not so strange bedfellows: An aspiring MAGA influencer’s Russian friend turns out to be an FSB officer with ties to the Wagner Group

Not so strange bedfellows: An aspiring MAGA influencer’s Russian friend turns out to be an FSB officer with ties to the Wagner Group

Not-so-secret services: One of Russia’s most highly classified officials has a social media problem

Not-so-secret services: One of Russia’s most highly classified officials has a social media problem

“This propaganda works”: How two Brazilian TikTokers got rich recruiting for the Russian army

“This propaganda works”: How two Brazilian TikTokers got rich recruiting for the Russian army

Fake foreigners, fugitive criminals, and Holocaust deniers: Who ended up in Moscow’s “international tribunal on crimes of Ukrainian Nazis”

Fake foreigners, fugitive criminals, and Holocaust deniers: Who ended up in Moscow’s “international tribunal on crimes of Ukrainian Nazis”

“Pashinyan’s illness,” “looming war with Russia,” and “gas chambers on Mount Ararat”: Moscow floods Armenia with disinfo ahead of elections

“Pashinyan’s illness,” “looming war with Russia,” and “gas chambers on Mount Ararat”: Moscow floods Armenia with disinfo ahead of elections

Strong Armenia party leader Samvel Karapetyan revealed as nominal owner of villa on French Riviera used by Putin’s partner Alina Kabaeva

Strong Armenia party leader Samvel Karapetyan revealed as nominal owner of villa on French Riviera used by Putin’s partner Alina Kabaeva

Lusine Movsesian

Grabbing him by the “Beard”: The Insider identifies the FSB, GRU, and SVR agents Russia sent to Armenia to take on PM Nikol Pashinyan

Grabbing him by the “Beard”: The Insider identifies the FSB, GRU, and SVR agents Russia sent to Armenia to take on PM Nikol Pashinyan

Geraniums in bloom: The Insider and Nordsint reveal how a large Chinese firm supplies Russian drone production

Geraniums in bloom: The Insider and Nordsint reveal how a large Chinese firm supplies Russian drone production

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

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

Kato Kopaleishvili

Fidelius Schmid

Alexander Chernyshev

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

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

Roman Dobrokhotov

“Matryoshka” enters the fray: The Kremlin and the GRU are spreading disinformation in Hungary ahead of its pivotal parliamentary election

“Matryoshka” enters the fray: The Kremlin and the GRU are spreading disinformation in Hungary ahead of its pivotal parliamentary election

“A medal for the city of Budapest”: Who at the Russian Embassy in Hungary is helping “Kremlin ally” Viktor Orbán in the upcoming elections?

“A medal for the city of Budapest”: Who at the Russian Embassy in Hungary is helping “Kremlin ally” Viktor Orbán in the upcoming elections?

Bad chemistry: Who synthesized the poison that killed Navalny and what a subsidiary of a German company has to do with it

Bad chemistry: Who synthesized the poison that killed Navalny and what a subsidiary of a German company has to do with it

Roman Dobrokhotov

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

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

Wojciech Cieśla

Holger Roonemaa

Kato Kopaleishvili

The secret life of insects: A GRU colonel loses a colony of rare ants after failing to protect Iran from missile strikes

The secret life of insects: A GRU colonel loses a colony of rare ants after failing to protect Iran from missile strikes

"How much are drone coils these days?": The Insider and Nordsint go undercover to reveal how Chinese firms supply Russia’s defense industry

"How much are drone coils these days?": The Insider and Nordsint go undercover to reveal how Chinese firms supply Russia’s defense industry

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

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

Nikolai Antoniadis

Roman Dobrokhotov

Fidelius Schmid

The Insider identifies 6,000 exporters trading with sanctioned Russian firms or defense industry suppliers, 4,000 of them based in China

The Insider identifies 6,000 exporters trading with sanctioned Russian firms or defense industry suppliers, 4,000 of them based in China

To Russia for the money: Austria’s Putin-friendly former foreign minister lives on million-ruble fees from propaganda channel RT

To Russia for the money: Austria’s Putin-friendly former foreign minister lives on million-ruble fees from propaganda channel RT

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

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

“What bastard builds a school inside a military base?”: Residents of Iran’s Minab speak out about the school strike

“What bastard builds a school inside a military base?”: Residents of Iran’s Minab speak out about the school strike

The drinking buddy: Dmitry Medvedev’s “wallet” profits from Oreshnik missile production while making wine in Italy

The drinking buddy: Dmitry Medvedev’s “wallet” profits from Oreshnik missile production while making wine in Italy

Theft, mistresses, and U.S. passports: The double lives of the Russian MPs building a “digital GULAG” while preaching “traditional values”

Theft, mistresses, and U.S. passports: The double lives of the Russian MPs building a “digital GULAG” while preaching “traditional values”

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