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Investigations

Caught stealing: An employee of Russia’s top-secret Department K has been convicted of selling a classified database

Investigations

The fall of the “Godfather”: How Putin’s former bodyguard helped bring down an FSB general

Investigations

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

Investigations

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

Investigations

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

Investigations

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

Investigations

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

Investigations

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

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?

Investigations

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

Investigations

“Pancake,” “Lenin,” and an FSB hacker: Meet the fresh faces at Putin’s new directorate “for strategic partnership and cooperation”

Investigations

Drunk driving and prostitutes: Members of Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service have taken to denouncing their colleagues

Investigations

Inside Moscow’s latest clash of clans: A new counterintelligence chief could hand Igor Sechin influence over both the FSB and the army

Investigations

Call center redemption: Why a former Russian prison guard’s captivity at a rogue telemarketing outpost had nothing to do with Ukraine

Investigations

Our Lady of Spies: How a crime boss built a “miracle church” for Russia’s top intelligence officers

Investigations

Reporting for duty: Kremlin sends in new agents after Austria expels spies masquerading as journalists

Investigations

Spies, banquets, and embezzlement: The inner workings of Putin’s “cultural ties” directorate

Confession

“GRU officers do time for drugs, the police for protection rackets”: Inside Russia’s prison colony for crooked cops and spooks

Investigations

Sandpit general: Senior FSB official quietly does business with Lithuanian partners

Investigations

Oil tycoons, bankers, and a state propagandist from Cyprus: what happened to the Kremlin’s deep-cover spies caught in the U.S.

POLITICS

An Azeri vendetta: Russia’s crackdown on an “ethnic organized crime group” has collided with Putin’s former classmate

Investigations

Blades of glory: Putin’s aide, FSB generals, and a GRU spy lace up with a convict on Russia’s most secretive amateur ice hockey team

SOCIETY

Coded nonsense: How Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service fabricates “secret dispatches” from its “agents” abroad

Investigations

Stopped at the border: How Igor Sechin’s “clan” failed to take control of Russia’s Federal Customs Service

Investigations

Operation “Cutter” and gold bars: How Iran became the hub of Russian espionage in the Middle East

POLITICS

The spy next door. Russia's foreign intelligence chief pushes to commemorate Stalin's spies in Moscow's Yasenevo

POLITICS

Public-private espionage. How the GRU and FSB recruited a private company from Yekaterinburg to do their work around the world

POLITICS

A country for old men: What’s happening to Nikolai Patrushev’s protégés at the FSB after his departure?

CORRUPTION

Debt to the Fatherland: FSB general overseeing Russia’s National Guard hides from bailiffs in elite Moscow apartment

POLITICS

A pen pal in Moscow: Moldovan Chief of General Staff passed secret information to his GRU handlers

SOCIETY

Research and espionage: An institute staffed by Russian intelligence officers is recruiting students and scientists abroad

POLITICS

“He knew exactly where to take a bite”: Why was Russian Deputy Defense Minister Timur Ivanov so confident he wouldn't face consequences?

POLITICS

Legion of shame: Russian warmongers still hold highest French award

CORRUPTION

Children’s magazines and fighting “soullessness”: Here’s what Russia’s National Antiterrorism Committee was up to instead of fighting ISIS

POLITICS

The end of neutrality: How Austria is getting rid of Russian spies

SOCIETY

The Kremlin's fifth column. Russia declares war on U.S. exchange programs despite its own officials' past participation

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