#Ukraine Gen Staff claims hits on 3 Lukoil rigs (Filanovsky, Korchagin, Grayfer) in Caspian Sea + Buk-M3 in Luhansk on Jan 11 (@KyivIndependent).

mitt undersökande år, 2025, präglades av denna granskning, både vad gäller rapportering, hur man får de man granskar att prata och sen hur man tänker kring säkerhet, hur man stöttar kollegor och följer upp spår. må 2026 bli ett år då man får mer av allt det goda www.journalisten.se/nyheter/repo...

Kyiv mayor Vitali Klitschko said that the attack had triggered a loss of heating for half of Kyiv’s 12,000 residential apartment buildings. He called on those residents affected to leave the city if they had “alternative sources of power and heating”. www.ft.com/content/9deb...

the return of inner warmth 🩵

hör om bulgariens eurointräde i studio ett: www.sverigesradio.se/artikel/bulg...

highlights from bulgarian television. on investigative journalism between Stockholm, Sofia and Moscow:

”The fight for these children, for their safe return, for the punishment of their abusers, is something bigger than me” Ukrainian lawyer Kateryna Rashevska is still pushing for the return of thousands of Ukrainian children abducted by #Russia: www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

And also, the political firestorm that engulfed #Bulgaria has a clear focus: Delyan Peevski. Who is he and why does it matter? mariageorgieva.substack.com/p/beyond-res...

hör veckans reportage från #Bulgarien www.sverigesradio.se/artikel/prot...

Ales Bialiatski, Belarusian human rights activist and founder of the Viasna Human Rights Centre, has reportedly been released from prison in #Belarus. He shared the 2022 Nobel Peace Prize with the Center for Civil Liberties + Memorial for their efforts in promoting civil society.

Maria Kalesnikava, Belarusian political activist and professional flutist known for her prominent role in the 2020 protests against President Alexander Lukashenko, has been released. Confirmed by her sister, whom she spoke to on the phone. zerkalo-access.space/news/economi...

in conversation with fellow journalist Maria Cheresheva about investigating #Russia, and on how long we have been reporting on the protests in #Bulgaria. Shadow fleet, Russian spies and more. In Bulgarian, rare opportunity, buy 1 get 1 free 4-ever. homecoming be like: www.youtube.com/watch?v=7oXd...

The latest from us and our Ukrainian partners Slidstvo.Info. www.occrp.org/en/investiga...

"Vi låter dem inte ljuga för oss", parollen ikväll i flera bulgariska städer. Sofia, Varna, Burgas, Plovdiv. Människor har samlats för att visa sitt missnöje med den nuvarande regeringens budget för 2026. Protesterna organiseras av antikorruptionspartiet Vi fortsätter förändringen (PP). #Bulgarien

Stoptime’s members were kept in jail on back-to-back charges — a law enforcement tactic known in Russia as “carousel arrests.” Read Meduza’s explainer on how this repressive practice works. meduza.io/en/cards/it-...

looking forward to the #Rorypeckawards this week!

first-ever claim against a country for wartime emissions www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

intervjuar en högaktuell artist som de ryska myndigheterna följer noggrant, även i exilen. I DN. nu på söndag 16 november kommer popfenomenet Monetochka till Slaktkyrkan i Sthlm.

Elena Kostyuchenko, a prominent exiled Russian journalist, has today been vocal about the severe visa restrictions recently imposed on Russians by the European Union, particularly the ban on multiple-entry Schengen visas for Russian citizens residing in Russia starting November 2025.

Read our full report here: www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/11...

Actually no surprises here: Gunvor group drops bid to buy #Lukoil assets after US calls it 'Kremlin's puppet' www.bbc.com/russian/arti...

an excerpt from Andrei’s book. “RUSSIAN CYBERPUNK” zona.media/article/2025...

interviewing through zoom is not my favorite thing to do. five years ago during Covid this is how I first met Kirill Serebrennikov for the first time. this time, there is war and other limits but I’m still interviewing interesting people.

Över en natt har en ny staty av den ryske tsaren Ivan den förskräcklige invigts i ryska staden Vologda. Invigningen sammanfaller med Rysslands nationella enhetsdag 4 november, en helgdag som firar expulsionen av polska styrkor från Moskva under den så kallade ”Tiden av oro” på 1600-talet,

och norska kontakter debatterar Dmitrij Muratov www.journalisten.no/urimelig-ang...

the magic mountain

talked investigative journalism with students from the American university in Bulgaria. So much fun, got great questions

#Bulgaria faces challenges regarding #Lukoil after the new US sanctions imposed on major Russian oil companies, including Lukoil. The sanctions block financial transactions via SWIFT, which complicates payments given Lukoil's majority ownership of the Burgas refinery, Bulgaria's only oil refinery.

Awful news. Olena Hubanova and Yevhen Karmazin, Ukrainian journalists working for TV channel Freedom, were killed in a Russian Lancet drone attack in Kramatorsk, according to the city’s mayor and local media reports. This makes three deaths of journalists in eastern Ukraine just this month.

have followed the making of this for some time, #russia watchers, investigators, big data people etc, Andrey's new bok – must read – is available for pre-order: “Russian Cyberpunk: How the Kremlin and oligarchs are building a ‘Digital Gulag’ — and who is resisting” echo-books.com/shop/russkij...

These cases find a way to the surface, and will continue to do so. Honor killings in Chechnya worried many I met there over the years. A 23-year-old Chechen woman who had reportedly fled domestic violence in #Russia, was found dead in a rented apartment in Yerevan. meduza.io/feature/2025...

”Он считает себя русским, он говорил, что нас нужно убить” www.currenttime.tv/a/v-shveytsa...

This! I’ve been longlisted for Freelance Journalist of the Year at this year’s @rorypecktrust.bsky.social Awards! There are some incredible journalists on the list – with work I really admire and get inspiration from: rorypecktrust.org/awards/2025-... #rorypeck

This investigation, by iStories/The Post and Courier, into sanctioned Russian bankers' homes in exposes how high-profile Russian bankers linked to Sovcombank have maneuvered to invest millions in luxury real estate and commercial properties in the U.S: www.postandcourier.com/news/special...

Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree for the autumn military draft from October 1 to December 31, 2025. The draft will conscript 135,000 men aged 18 to 30 who are not in the reserve: meduza.io/news/2025/09...

watching this week: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5wa... on the problem of mephedrone use among Russian teenagers, a synthetic drug known as “meow” or “the poor man's cocaine” - following the entire drug chain from Chinese precursors, to Russian production labs, to the lives destroyed by addiction.

Rat activity is ⬆️ 400% in Washington DC, 300% in San Francisco, 180% in Toronto & 160% in New York. A big reason is climate change: Rats have gotten esp numerous in cities that warmed more, since they breed better in warm conditions www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

An in-depth look at everyday life in Kursk, #Russia, during and after the occupation of the region by Ukrainian armed forces in 2024. By independent Russian sociologists who spent months in the area, documenting how war is experienced and discussed by ordinary residents: meduza.io/feature/2025...

reading Death and the Gardener and re-experiencing how my language is felt. “My father was a gardener. Now he is a garden”. This metaphor becomes the soil from which the novel grows, tracing the final months of Gospodinov’s father as he succumbs to cancer mariageorgieva.substack.com/p/a-garden-o...

Yulia Navalnaya said that foreign laboratory tests on biological samples obtained from Alexei Navalny showed that he was poisoned. ”Labs in two different countries reached the same conclusion”. meduza.io/feature/2025...

Jan Marsalek, the fugitive billionaire fraudster, has resurfaced in Moscow— recruited by the FSB and now reportedly taking part in Russian special operations in Ukraine: theins.ru/inv/284979 @christogrozev.bsky.social @dobrokhotov.bsky.social

Congratulations to journalist Andrey Zakharov for a rare legal victory against an oligarch in a Russian court. The Moscow City Court has rejected Konstantin Malofeev’s appeal against Zakharov and the publisher of Zakharov’s book, “Crypto,” about Malofeev’s Wex exchange links. t.me/NetFreedomsP...

Polisen har gjort razzior mot den svenska nazibutiken Midgård – som är ökänd för att förse Europas nazister och högerextremister med musik, kläder och annan propaganda. Missa in polisens bilder inifrån Midgårds omfattande lager. Daniel Olsson och jag rapporterar. www.expressen.se/nyheter/sver...

Peak Polezhan, 2850 m.

in my little town

Om du missat – läs mina avslöjanden om ryska propagandaprojektet Det Odödliga Regementet och de svenska bilkaravanerna. När organisatören tar emot Segerns fana flätas historisk symbolik samman med nutida geopolitik och det ryska anfallskriget mot Ukraina mariageorgieva.substack.com/p/hon-ar-put...

A court in the city of Vladimir has placed acclaimed violinist Asya Sorshneva under house arrest on charges of “financing extremist activities,” Russian media reported on Friday. I know people who know her. They are devastated. www.themoscowtimes.com/2025/08/08/a...