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IStories found suppliers of original spare parts for Boeing and Airbus to Russia in the United Arab Emirates, China, Turkey and even in Europe

12 September

Roman Romanovskiy, Lizaveta Tsybulina

Why Russian Airplanes Keep Flying despite the Imposed Sanctions

IStories and Conflict Intelligence Team analyzed the electoral lists of DPR, LPR, Kherson and Zaporizhzhya Oblasts and found Kremlin-linked officials, a mobilized soldier, and people involved in war and corruption crimes

28 August

Sonya Savina, Katya Bonch-Osmolovskaya

Who Is Russia Pushing on Ukraine’s Annexed Territories’ Sham Elections?

IStories found military officers who fled Russia — they told us about the war crimes they have witnessed and why it is almost impossible to leave the Russian army

15 August

Ekaterina Fomina

How the Russian Servicemen Are Deserting and Escaping Russia so as Not to Kill in the War

A disabled Ukrainian man was nearly tortured to death in occupied Melitopol. Now he’s back in Russian captivity

14 August

Editors, Polina Uzhvak

“Mom, I Went to Hell”

Oleg Deripaska, Leonid Mikhelson, Gennady Timchenko, and other businessmen recruit volunteers for the war on salaries. In the meantime, their businesses, which is involved in this — Rusal, Novatek, PIK, Mospromstroy — successfully avoid sanctions

1 August

Maria Zholobova, Anastasia Korotkova

How the Russian Billionaires Provide Mercenaries to the Russian Army

The Rotenberg Files

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The Rotenberg Files

Boris and Arkady Rotenberg were two of the most prominent Russian oligarchs to be sanctioned after the Kremlin’s 2014 annexation of Crimea. Never-before-seen insider documents now offer unprecedented insight into how they shielded their fortune — and who helped them do it.

20 June

Roman Anin, Alesya Marokhovskaya, Irina Dolinina, Dmitry Velikovsky, Editors, Maria Zholobova, Ilya Lozovsky, Daniel Balint-Kurti, Robert Denis, Misha Gagarin, Kevin G. Hall, Ekaterina Selivanova, Graham Stack, Tom Stocks, Julia Wallace, Giacomo Tognini, Ben Cowdock, Abdelhak El Idrissi , Jyri Hänninen, Minna Knus-Galan, Cecilia Anesi, Sanita Jemberga, Holger Roonemaa

Leaked Emails Reveal How Putin’s Friends Dodged Sanctions With Help of Western Enablers

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The Rotenberg Files

A holiday property in an exclusive skiing destination was frequented by Vladimir Putin’s eldest daughter, locals say. New documents suggest the house was purchased using a loan financed by Arkady Rotenberg, a sanctioned billionaire and childhood friend of the Russian president.

20 June

Dmitry Velikovsky, Graham Stack, Bastian Obermayer, Timo Schober, Fabian Schmid, Maria Retter, Jan Daalder

Documents Suggest Billionaire Oligarch Financed Purchase of Austrian Chalet Used by Putin’s Daughter

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The Rotenberg Files

Leaked emails show how a series of lawyers and corporate service providers executed a series of complex schemes to seemingly try to disguise Rotenberg’s connection to the villa. Despite their efforts, the Spanish authorities froze the villa last year.

20 June

Dmitry Velikovsky, Robert Denis, Graham Stack, Manuel Rico, Nacho Herrero

Russian Oligarch Boris Rotenberg Spent Years Trying to Hide His Spanish Villa. The Authorities Froze it Anyway

While designer Alexander Zakharov equips the Russian army with Lancets, his son Lavrentiy Zakharov works at the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research

19 July

Roman Romanovskiy

The Family of the Russian Suicide Drones’ Creator Owns Real Estate in the “Unfriendly” UK

Sanctions can’t stop Russia from importing products needed for ZALA Lancet. An investigation by IStories

13 June

Roman Romanovskiy

Who, How and Where Buys Components for the Deadliest Suicide Drones in the Russian Army

Western sanctions are meant to prevent Russia from supplying its military from abroad, but sensitive electronics are still getting through. Reporters traced several of these supply chains through Kazakhstan — and found that they run through companies newly established by Russians.

19 May

Maria Zholobova, Benjamin Bidder, Ilya Lozovsky, Vyacheslav Abramov

Kazakhstan Has Become a Pathway for the Supply of Russia’s War Machine. Here’s How It Works

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IStories found almost 2.5 thousand orphans who may have been forcibly deported from Ukraine to Russia. Here’s how the authorities kidnap Ukrainian children and try to raise them as Russians

31 May

Katya Bonch-Osmolovskaya

To Kidnap and Russify

A Russian military paramedic talks with IStories about poor medical training in the Russian army and what are the most dangerous wounds in the war with Ukraine

12 May

“Better Get a Minor Wound — No One Will Help You”

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Yevgeny Prigozhin’s mutiny is the result of the actions of the president, who, in order to preserve his personal power, has long moved the country’s governance into a gray zone

27 June

Ilya Matveev

Nothing but Wagner All Around. How Putin Degraded the Russian State

When Western European markets stopped buying Russian timber, Russia’s largest logging company scrapped environmental protections

20 April

Wartime Ecology

Stories of children from Mariupol “saved” by the Russian army. Two of them lost their mother during the war

24 February

Ekaterina Fomina, Editors

Ukrainian Children Were Brought on the Stage during the Pro-war Concert in Moscow. IStories Found Who They Are

IStories editor Roman Anin on how Russia’s Game of Thrones will end

9 January

In Russia, a Clan War for Putin’s Throne Has Begun. Who Will Win?

IStories looked into the life stories of the convicted criminals who died in Ukraine and were recruited by Russia’s infamous paramilitary organization Wagner PMC, talked to the victims of their crimes, relatives and friends

3 May

Alesya Marokhovskaya, Ekaterina Fomina

Faces of Wagner