How Police Fake Up Criminal Cases Relating to Drug Abuse with the Help of Rent-a-Mob Witnesses

This work is an excel­lent exam­ple of an ongo­ing inves­ti­ga­tion. After all, while it is often dif­fi­cult to put an end to a good jour­nal­is­tic inves­ti­ga­tion, to con­sid­er it ful­ly com­plet­ed, authors rarely have the oppor­tu­ni­ty or desire to delve into a worked-out top­ic again, to fol­low fur­ther events relat­ed to it. Not in this case.…

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Crimea is Theirs. A New Investigation by Novaya Gazeta about Those Who Really «Got» the Peninsula

The expres­sion «Crimea is ours,» which has become a house­hold name in Rus­sia, has been heard from every «iron» in recent days, from Russ­ian fed­er­al tele­vi­sion chan­nels to a mass con­cert in hon­or of the «Crimean spring» at Moscow’s Luzh­ni­ki Sta­di­um.  Musi­cians and spec­ta­tors sang and danced in vio­la­tion of all san­i­tary, and thus legal,…

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Breathless. A Cross-Regional Investigation in Novaya Gazeta

A team of jour­nal­ists and activists reveals the «pecu­liar­i­ties» of med­ical equip­ment pro­cure­ment dur­ing the pan­dem­ic. The coro­n­avirus pan­dem­ic exposed the deplorable state of Russ­ian hos­pi­tals. The author­i­ties were urgent­ly engaged in pro­vid­ing them with med­ical equip­ment and sup­plies. Ven­ti­la­tors and tomo­graphs turned out to be vital­ly need­ed not in a «dimen­sion­less» three months, but «here and now». That is why the…

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The General and the Bloody Bratva. A New Investigation of IStories

There is not much infor­ma­tion about Sergei Korolev, the new­ly appoint­ed first deputy direc­tor of the FSB, in the pub­lic domain: he was head of the Eco­nom­ic Secu­ri­ty Ser­vice (ESS), and before that, the FSB Direc­torate for Inter­nal Secu­ri­ty (FSB). That is, in fact, all that the pub­lic is «sup­posed» to know. ISto­ries decid­ed that fel­low cit­i­zens are enti­tled to more com­plete infor­ma­tion about an important…

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