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
InvestigationsThe secret life of insects: A GRU colonel loses a colony of rare ants after failing to protect Iran from missile strikesSergey KanevMarch 27, 2026
Investigations"How much are drone coils these days?": The Insider and Nordsint go undercover to reveal how Chinese firms supply Russia’s defense industryRXRyan XAZAndrey ZayakinMarch 24, 2026
InvestigationsLost in translation: How Russia’s new elite hit squad was compromised by an idiotic lapse in tradecraftMichael WeissRoman DobrokhotovChristo GrozevFidelius SchmidNikolai AntoniadisMarch 13, 2026
InvestigationsThe Insider identifies 6,000 exporters trading with sanctioned Russian firms or defense industry suppliers, 4,000 of them based in ChinaAZAndrey ZayakinMarch 11, 2026
InvestigationsTo Russia for the money: Austria’s Putin-friendly former foreign minister lives on million-ruble fees from propaganda channel RTThe InsiderMarch 11, 2026
Investigations“The biggest cover-up of my adult life”: Inside the CIA’s attempt to make Havana Syndrome disappearMichael WeissMarch 8, 2026
Investigations“What bastard builds a school inside a military base?”: Residents of Iran’s Minab speak out about the school strikeTOTimur OlevskyMarch 5, 2026
InvestigationsThe drinking buddy: Dmitry Medvedev’s “wallet” profits from Oreshnik missile production while making wine in ItalySergei EzhovMarch 5, 2026
InvestigationsTheft, mistresses, and U.S. passports: The double lives of the Russian MPs building a “digital GULAG” while preaching “traditional values”Sergei EzhovFebruary 28, 2026
InvestigationsAlice in adult-land: Nomma Zarubina admits to collaborating with the FSB and involvement in prostitutionRoman DobrokhotovChristo GrozevFebruary 26, 2026
Investigations“The study had nothing to do with treatment”: Russian institute that supplied toxin used on Navalny looked into methods for its detectionRoman DobrokhotovFebruary 20, 2026
