InvestigationsInside Moscow’s latest clash of clans: A new counterintelligence chief could hand Igor Sechin influence over both the FSB and the armySergey Kanev1 January 2026
InvestigationsCovering their trail: Russia’s customs service has started concealing data on sanctioned importsAZAndrey Zayakin25 December 2025
InvestigationsThe mob’s humanitarian backdoor: Ramzan Kadyrov’s mafia connections reach deep into German critical infrastructureAnastasia Mikhaylova17 December 2025Roman Dobrokhotov17 December 2025
InvestigationsSubstance dependence: Russia’s military-industrial complex still relies on imported chemicals, including some from the WestAZAndrey Zayakin10 December 2025
InvestigationsPrivatization for hire: Russia’s state property chief is on the payroll of Putin pal Arkady RotenbergSergei Ezhov8 December 2025
InvestigationsCall center redemption: Why a former Russian prison guard’s captivity at a rogue telemarketing outpost had nothing to do with UkraineSergey Kanev18 November 2025
InvestigationsA champion like no other: The curious life of a Unit 29155 operativeRoman Dobrokhotov4 November 2025Michael Weiss4 November 2025Christo Grozev4 November 2025
InvestigationsKremlin customer service: The Insider identifies the top 30 customs brokers facilitating sanctioned imports to RussiaAZAndrey Zayakin31 October 2025
InvestigationsMillionaire vs. buskers: Chief of St. Petersburg Police cracking down on street musicians owns $6.2 million worth of real estateSergei Ezhov30 October 2025
Investigations“The sky is falling?”: Company linked to oligarch Deripaska bought American-inspired Swiwin engines for use in jet-powered Shahed dronesAZAndrey Zayakin30 October 2025TOTimur Olevsky30 October 2025
InvestigationsOur Lady of Spies: How a crime boss built a “miracle church” for Russia’s top intelligence officersSergey Kanev29 October 2025
InvestigationsThe price of loyalty: Kremlin propaganda power couple Skabeeva and Popov have seen their incomes soar amid Russia’s invasion of UkraineSergei Ezhov27 October 2025
InvestigationsShoigu’s daughter, a submarine shipyard, and two criminal oligarchs: Meet the Russian business partners of Estonian entrepreneurs Sergei Ezhov14 October 2025
InvestigationsWar and wine: While Russia bleeds money and battles drones, Putin's wine business is boomingSSergey Panov6 October 2025
InvestigationsReporting for duty: Kremlin sends in new agents after Austria expels spies masquerading as journalistsSergey Kanev2 October 2025
Investigations“They pointed at some woman and said I’d been caught red-handed”: How Chechen security services honeytrap men into going to warMKMikhail Kalinin25 September 2025
InvestigationsOur Jan in Moscow: The secret Russian life of Europe's most notorious fugitive-turned-spyChristo Grozev16 September 2025Roman Dobrokhotov16 September 2025Michael Weiss16 September 2025Roman Lehberger16 September 2025
InvestigationsFamily values: FSB chief’s nephew tied to corrupt businessmen including Putin’s old judo partnersSergei Ezhov16 September 2025
InvestigationsSpies, banquets, and embezzlement: The inner workings of Putin’s “cultural ties” directorateSergey Kanev12 September 2025
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 partnersSergey 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.Sergey 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 UkrainiansChristo Grozev22 July 2025Roman Dobrokhotov22 July 2025Tatsiana Ashurkevich22 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