Anomalies and statistics show that 18 of 30 millions of “paper votes” for United Russia in last week’s elections might actually be fabricated, which would…

IStories’ Olga Churakova shares her opinion on the predictable election results in Russian State Duma

An investigation by IStories

Ivan Kirsanov had been working on a surveillance system project for the Russian Federal Security Service. Then he left the country taking a copy of its…

Brian Sutton, accused of masterminding one of the largest fraud schemes to ever be unraveled in the United States, is living freely in Russia. Among his…

The Russian state security service — FSB — has been trying to implement AI in its anti-opposition operations for at least two years. IStories investigated how…

A Russian Duma deputy’s family supports Russian militaries in the war against Ukraine while investing millions of euros in Luxembourg and Germany — Stories

IStories unfold the Russian president’s path from discussing “getting rid of extensive weapons” back in 2000 to being ready to “employ all available means” in…

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After being released from prisons in Russia, Ukrainian citizens are indefinitely kept in practical captivity

Russia’s war veterans do not fit into the existing political machinery

The privacy of hundreds of millions of users is at risk, experts say

Независимое медиа. Расследования, репортажи, интервью и истории о том, что важно

The state censoring agency believes that the app “destabilizes the socio-political situation” in Russia

IStories have requested experts to comment on how probable it is

Essentially, only the state-run internet will remain in the whole country

This is the first investigation on Dmitry Klyuev’s activity to reach the trial stage

An investigation by IStories, OCCRP, The Irish Times, and partners

Important Stories tells the story of Lana Pozhidaeva — an MGIMO graduate, model, and daughter of career intelligence officers — who for many years was involved in Jeffrey Epstein’s network and recruit...

Who makes money off videos of brutal war executions published on Telegram channels

What we know about the student recruitment campaign and how to avoid it

Effort involves targeting students and moving conscripts to professional contracts

How Wagner’s network operated in Africa and Latin America after Prigozhin’s death

The successor will be the one who can guarantee the Kadyrov family’s security and keep Chechnya under Kremlin control

Over the past three years, Russia has almost completed the development of a digital registry that can be used for a new and more effective war mobilization campaign, storing data on 25 million citizen...

The decision is linked to the publication of an investigation by Ekaterina Fomina about the mass shootings of civilians in Bucha

How did a Grozny native whose brother participated in the assassination of Ramzan Kadyrov’s opponent become a prominent figure in the Alternative for Germany party and gather German far-rightists arou...

They gained access to data on the development of the register

Companies in Russia and the United Arab Emirates are involved in secretive exports of oil products to North Korea — in violation of U.N. sanctions that Moscow itself supported.

An investigation by IStories, OCCRP, All Eyes On Wagner, Slidstvo.Info, and Belarusian Investigative Center

An investigation by The Post and Courier, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, and IStories

Passages through pipes have little impact on the course of combat operations, according to military experts

On the fourth year of Russian “war against the West” the son of the first deputy director of Rostec state corporation was detained in his villa in Spain in a money laundering probe. IStories got the v...