Stories — June 2025

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Stories — June 2025

The technical infrastructure that underpins Telegram is controlled by a man whose companies have collaborated with Russian intelligence services. An investigation by IStories

10 June

Roman Anin, Nikita Kondratyev

Telegram, the FSB, and the Man in the Middle

How a network for selling sex with teenagers was built in Russia — and which of its influential clients managed to escape responsibility. An investigation by IStories and Verstka

19 June

Olesya Gerasimenko, Ivan Zhadaev, Rina Richter, Aleksandr Kabanov, Maria Zholobova, Dmitry Velikovsky

“They Told Me: Deripaska Is the Client. Don’t You Want To Sell Your Virginity?”

This practice is being implemented in at least one region of Russia. Lawyers say it is illegal

27 June

Polina Uzhvak, Sonya Savina

Prospective Foster Parents Now Required to Provide Certificate of “No Sex Change”