Russia

After IStories and OCCRP exposed ties between Telegram’s backend providers and Russian intelligence services, the company issued denials, its infrastructure partner launched a media offensive, and cybersecurity experts warned of …

Some shipments of cash arrived on the day of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, just weeks before a currency export ban was imposed.

The bloggers rack up millions of views, promote Russia as a haven for conservatives, glorify the war in Ukraine — and never disclose any ties to the Russian government. The …

Kyrgyzstan has become a major hub for routing exports of sanctioned cars to Russia. One Moscow-based dealership flaunts an array of luxury vehicles, acquired despite the sanctions.

To sustain its oil exports, Russia has been drawing on a network of old tankers it sources from private sellers around the world. A new analysis by Follow the Money …

Russia has been exporting arms to countries including Saudi Arabia, bolstering its economy after a barrage of sanctions followed its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022.

One of Tallinn’s most notorious corruption scandals came to a quiet conclusion this year when a case against Swedbank was thrown out on a technicality. But hundreds of newly released …

In response to a widening range of U.S.-led global sanctions against Russian companies and media, Vladimir Putin struck back by announcing a list of “undesirable” organizations who could no longer …

In a sharp rebuke, Russia’s Foreign Ministry denounced the latest U.S. sanctions on Russian state-funded media as “the result of operations carefully orchestrated by intelligence services.”

In Cyprus, a new type of investment fund was marketed to clients as a way to avoid disclosing their ownership of assets. In one case, these funds were used to …