InvestigationsRussian billionaire Konstantin Nikolaev received EU subsidies while a company linked to him was importing Austrian Glock pistols to RussiaThe Insider 30 August 2025
InvestigationsThe Russian Duma’s “Bachelor Club”: Meet 39 MPs whose secret partners own their undisclosed wealthSergei Ezhov20 August 2025
InvestigationsDocuments confirm Russia is helping China develop a system for managing landing operations — potentially for use in a Taiwan invasionThe Insider 14 August 2025
InvestigationsChianti from Medvedev, Montepulciano by Yakunin, and Merlot à la Mikhalkov: A brief guide to the Italian vineyards of Putin’s inner circleSSergey Panov14 August 2025
InvestigationsBottlenecked: Nine choke points where Russian industry remains critically dependent on importsAZAndrey Zayakin13 August 2025
InvestigationsYen don't stink: Japanese firm's Russia machine sales surge 2,000% during war AZAndrey Zayakin8 August 2025
InvestigationsSandpit general: Senior FSB official quietly does business with Lithuanian partnersSKSergey Kanev7 August 2025
InvestigationsThe sleeping dragon: Five simple ways China could put a stop to the war in UkraineThe Insider 4 August 2025
InvestigationsOil tycoons, bankers, and a state propagandist from Cyprus: what happened to the Kremlin’s deep-cover spies caught in the U.S.SKSergey Kanev30 July 2025
InvestigationsThe Kremlin’s laundromat: Billionaire Moldovan fraudster Vladimir Plahotniuc repeatedly flew to Moscow for secret high-level talksRoman Dobrokhotov29 July 2025Christo Grozev29 July 2025TOTimur Olevsky29 July 2025
Investigations“We must not say it’s for the war”: Hundreds of thousands of Russian schoolkids are building drones that kill UkrainiansTatsiana Ashurkevich22 July 2025Roman Dobrokhotov22 July 2025Christo Grozev22 July 2025
InvestigationsThe gift of grab: How a suburban Moscow mobster took over what the West left behindAAlexander Leonidovich22 July 2025
InvestigationsThe Paris consigliere: Head of French company supplying arms to Ukraine flies to Moscow and manages the Kremlin’s slush fundSSergey Panov18 July 2025
InvestigationsA one-way visa: Russia’s regional governments are recruiting Arab mercenaries to fight in UkraineAAlexei Remizov16 July 2025
InvestigationsSunbathing with the enemy: Meet the Kremlin propagandists who vacation in Europe despite demonizing the West on airSergei Ezhov15 July 2025
InvestigationsForging ahead: Russia sidesteps sanctions to import Austrian machinery for making howitzer barrelsThe Insider 11 July 2025
InvestigationsA shot from Captain Morgan: Russian firms named after English pirates are sourcing Chinese parts for Shahed kamikaze dronesThe Insider 7 July 2025
InvestigationsFrozen accounts, fake parts, failed deliveries: Russian courts reveal the impact sanctions are having on the Kremlin’s defense industryAZAndrey Zayakin25 June 2025
InvestigationsA dozen knives in the back of the Islamic revolution: Secret FSB documents confirm Iran and Russia are waging a spy war against each otherChristo Grozev25 June 2025Roman Dobrokhotov25 June 2025
InvestigationsWorkers of the world: Modern-day slave labor is being imported from North Korea into Russia despite a UN banKosmos Khoroshavin20 June 2025Dylan Carter20 June 2025
InvestigationsBlades 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 SKSergey Kanev16 June 2025
InvestigationsShell company: Russian billionaire Oleg Deripaska’s businesses are cashing in on the war in Ukraine — and he’s trying to hide itSergei Ezhov11 June 2025
InvestigationsHidden Bear: The GRU hackers of Russia’s most notorious kill squadChristo Grozev31 May 2025Michael Weiss31 May 2025Roman Dobrokhotov31 May 2025
InvestigationsAnzhalika and the secret agent: The love story behind the disappearance of the Belarusian opposition’s speakerEvgenia Tamarchenko23 May 2025Christo Grozev23 May 2025Roman Dobrokhotov23 May 2025TOTimur Olevsky23 May 2025
InvestigationsStopped at the border: How Igor Sechin’s “clan” failed to take control of Russia’s Federal Customs ServiceSKSergey Kanev19 May 2025
InvestigationsFour rotors and a prayer: How Russia built a billion-ruble drone industry using Chinese partsThe Insider 16 May 2025
InvestigationsR&R behind enemy lines: Rectors of universities tied to Russia’s military-industrial complex acquire luxury properties in ItalyThe Insider 30 April 2025
InvestigationsTightening loopholes: Russia finally sees sharp drop in restricted industrial imports propping up its military-industrial complexAZAndrey Zayakin10 April 2025
InvestigationsFrom KGB agent-cum-pimp to Monaco aristocrat: How a family of Russian spies became European tycoonsSSergey Panov3 April 2025
InvestigationsMinisters and oligarchs: The billionaires with ties to Russia’s governmentSergei Ezhov2 April 2025
InvestigationsIn tune with the killers: A French radio brand broadcasting in occupied Ukraine is running enlistment ads for the Russian armyNKNikita Kirillov31 March 2025
InvestigationsOil’s well that ends well: How Russian oil exports sail past the G7’s price cap — with European helpAZAndrey Zayakin14 March 2025
InvestigationsLiving large from Moscow to Milan: Russian state company executives snap up luxury homes in Italy while funding the war in UkraineThe Insider 10 March 2025
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 colleagueChristo Grozev7 March 2025
InvestigationsOperation “Cutter” and gold bars: How Iran became the hub of Russian espionage in the Middle EastSKSergey Kanev3 March 2025
Investigations A luxury retreat for Putin's banker: Inside the private estate of VTB president Andrey Kostin and his propagandist mistressAnastasia Mikhaylova14 February 2025