Last year, Meduza’s Lilia Yapparova and terrorism expert Vera Mironova reported on how Russian intelligence agencies try to recruit former ISIS fighters and embed them in pro-Ukrainian Chechen units and Crimean Tatar battalions. Here’s how they do it: meduza.io/en/feature/202…

Very grateful to zhgun for his art & help decoding the insane details he packed into his latest Putin timelapse cartoon. Folks, if you need a crash course on Russia’s past 6 yrs, want to teach a friend or student, or just test yourself, this is for you. meduza.io/en/feature/202…

❗Unraveling Havana Syndrome: New evidence links the GRU's assassination Unit 29155 to mysterious attacks on Americans, at home and abroad A joint investigation by The Insider, 60 Minutes, and DER SPIEGEL. theins.press/en/politics/27…

IStories have uncovered ISIS-K’s cryptocurrency wallet - the contents of which aligns with the confessions made by the detained Crocus City Hall terror suspects. Read the story in English.

абсолютно чудовищная ситуация с решением ЕС суда. В Кремле сегодня ликуют, олигархи спонсирующие режим Путина просто открыто избежали наказания. Виновным пытаются выставить народ. Против простых россиян и независимых СМИ (привет биг тех) дебильные санкции конечно оставят. Позор

For someone who had lived a more fruitful life in his 47 years than most people do in their 97 years, releasing a memoir - be it posthumously- seems like a natural conclusion to an extraordinary story.

It is now my greatest pleasure to flip a finger at everyone who has tried so insanely hard and failed to kill the U.S. defense aid bill and help Russia crush and exterminate Ukraine -- from corrupt politicians to useful idiots, as well as the one overtly selling out her own

The Russian elite is using Wikipedia as a PR tool by hiring editors to remove all traces of unfavourable content. Luckily, mechanisms are in place to make their jobs a little more difficult. An IStories Media and Wikiganda investigation, translated by myself.

🎂 «Важным историям» — 4 года! Власти России пытаются уничтожить свободу слова и утверждают, что уехавшие из страны журналисты уже потеряли связь с Россией. Мы, «Важные истории», работаем в эмиграции уже второй год. Несмотря на наш отъезд и статус «нежелательного» медиа, наши

“Now You Will See How Interesting It is in Russia” - an important investigation into the ongoing atrocity that is the deportation of Ukrainian children and disabled people into Russia. My translation for IStories Media istories.media/en/stories/202…

IStories has uncovered which Russian officials, deputies, state company chiefs and criminals have acquired real estate in Dubai. Presenting #DubaiUnlocked, an international investigation involving more than 70 media outlets from around the globe. istories.media/en/stories/202…

Important new documentary focused on several individuals born in Russia but adopted into the West, detailing how their lives turned out and what fate awaited their siblings who remained in Russia - with English audio and subtitles. youtu.be/aPflBAU9nvo?si…

A must-watch film on Kadyrov (in Russian, with English subtitles). Murder, torture, theft, mind-boggling corruption, plus an underage harem. Kadyrov as he is. Also, a verdict on Putin’s Russia.

Western software to run western machinery for the purposes of arms production continues to enter Russia despite sanctions. IStories investigates how this is being done. My translation for IStories Media

This was one of not so many places in Ukraine where children’s cancer was treated. Now parents carry away their children. Where? #StandWithUkraine

How much longer will this be allowed to continue?

A new investigation into how Sergey Novikov, a former friend of independent journalism and budding opera director, transformed into the Kremlin’s “chief cultural censor.” My translation for IStories Media istories.media/en/stories/202…

Those of us following this prisoner exchange news are also thinking of all the dissidents in Russia who couldn’t be freed, especially the late Alexey Navalny, who should be alive and reunited with his family today, not buried at Borisovskoye Cemetery.

Breaking: Russia freed wrongly convicted WSJ reporter Evan Gershkovich as part of the largest and most complex East-West prisoner swap since the Cold War on.wsj.com/4cheS5q

*Statement by the Council of the Free Russia Forum on Events in the Kursk region* Observing the events that have unfolded in recent days in the Kursk region, we feel it necessary to emphasize the following: As we have repeatedly stated, the war unleashed by Putin against