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

Investigations

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

Investigations

Alice in adult-land: Nomma Zarubina admits to collaborating with the FSB and involvement in prostitution

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

The Kremlin’s laundromat: Billionaire Moldovan fraudster Vladimir Plahotniuc repeatedly flew to Moscow for secret high-level talks

Investigations

“We must not say it’s for the war”: Hundreds of thousands of Russian schoolkids are building drones that kill Ukrainians

Investigations

A dozen knives in the back of the Islamic revolution: Secret FSB documents confirm Iran and Russia are waging a spy war against each other

Investigations

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

Investigations

Anzhalika and the secret agent: The love story behind the disappearance of the Belarusian opposition’s speaker

Investigations

“Let’s hire an ISIS suicide bomber to blow him up in the street!”: Europe’s most wanted man plotted my murder — and that of my colleague

POLITICS

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

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

“Hit him harder, make him drool blood”: Businessman Leonid Nevzlin’s alleged vendetta against the associates of Alexei Navalny

POLITICS

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

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

POLITICS

The Insider identified man threatening Maxim Mironov, leading to arrest of Leonid Volkov's assailants

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

Intercontinental lies: FSB launches disinformation and conspiracy campaign in Africa

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

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

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