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...

har ju följt detta på ett annat sätt än i medierna, men tacksamheten till att vi kommer ses igen snart är oändlig: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/w...

toppen av ett isberg detta www.deepseareporter.com/sv/i-svarta-... detta tema, bl.a vill jag granska

Nästa text får väl handla om Putins Jujutsu-akt.

Varför vill Putin inte ha eldupphör? Dimridåer för att påverka, maxar Putin tills han får som han vill – igen? mariageorgieva.substack.com/p/trump-har-...

Skriet som fick en röd matta på amerikansk mark

After 2 hours and 45 min face2face

Om någon i Norge har tips på var man kan få tag i ballonger för leverans utanför Oslo, plinga gärna.

Toppmötet med Trump i Alaska är mer än bara en diplomatisk träff – det är en propagandaseger för #Ryssland. Med historiska kopplingar till Alaska och en enveten nationalistisk retorik framstår Putin som en opportunistisk maktspelare som inte tänker ge vika mariageorgieva.substack.com/p/en-rysk-tr...

En triumf i sig, en uppvisning av Rysslands globala ställning, några tankar inför morgondagens toppmöte i Alaska. Det kommande mötet mellan Vladimir Putin och Donald Trump bär på en djup historisk resonans: mariageorgieva.substack.com/p/en-rysk-tr... Syns i Tv4 Efter fem imorgon. #Alaskasummit

”The request from Kyiv is related to an investigation into corruption in #Ukraine involving the sale of weapons at inflated prices.” Developing story: www.bta.bg/en/news/bulg...

We covered this from inside #Russia as well many years ago www.bbc.com/news/article...

Vad vill du veta inför Putin och Trumps möte i Alaska? Medverkar i TV4 Efter fem på fredag. Kommer lägga ut längre text här efter mötet mariageorgieva.substack.com Bild från när Trump svors in som president. Ett firande i Moskva visade direktsändningen inför ryska propagandister. 📸 Denis Sinyakov

Il est possible qu'Alec Luhn les ait informé sur les prochaines étapes de son trajet avant sa disparition.

Alec Luhn (38) savnet ved Folgefonna: – De må finne ham

Alec Luhn, an American journalist, has been missing for days in Folgefonna National Park in Norway. He was last heard from on Thursday at the start of a solo hike.

min vän @alecluhn.bsky.social saknas i norge. han vandrade i foglefonna och sökningen har återupptagits nu på morgonen. sprid gärna till norska kontakter: www.nrk.no/vestland/sok...

”имаш набито око” / ”you have an eye for details / but also ”a beaten eye” in Bulgarian

Derk Sauer's legacy and work for independent journalism in Russia is remarkable. My thoughts are with his family and our colleagues: www.themoscowtimes.com/2025/07/31/d...

Israel's military campaign in Gaza has killed 60,000 people. 18,500 were children. Here are their names. www.washingtonpost.com/world/intera...

#BIRN is vitally important because it stands as a beacon of independent, high-quality investigative journalism in a region where media often face political and economic pressures: birn.eu.com/news-and-eve...

really a feature worth your time. www.vg.no/nyheter/i/Ey...

At IRE, veteran journalists explained how oligarchs work with cross-border enablers and sophisticated tools to conceal their assets and government ties, and why reporters should take a similarly collaborative approach to expose them and the public harms they generate. gijn.org/stories/tips...

Latest: Zelensky has signed law stripping powers of Ukraine’s independent anticorruption agencies, according to two sources close to the president. It has not yet been published on the presidential site.

Mass protests erupted in Kyiv, Lviv & Odesa after parliament passed a bill weakening #Ukraine's anti-corruption bodies (NABU & SAPO). Protesters urge Zelenskyy to veto it. ”Zelensky signs law destroying independence of Ukraine's key anti-corruption bodies” kyivindependent.com/bill-subordi...

“Since AFP was founded in August 1944, we have lost journalists in conflicts, we have had wounded and prisoners in our ranks, but none of us can recall seeing a colleague die of hunger,” the SDJ, the French news agency’s journalists’ association said: www.middleeastmonitor.com/20250721-afp...

Oligarchs are wielding power in increasingly insidious ways across the globe, perpetrating corruption, abuse of power, and environmental exploitation. But expert investigators have a series of tips and techniques for tracking their influence and exposing their wrongdoing. Read more @gijn.org.

Me: "It’s not just a story about their personal enrichment, it’s about systemic corruption that we see, global secrecy, and taking national resources away from the public good.” @gijn.org writes about our session on investigating oligarchs from @ire.org gijn.org/stories/tips...

Gergiev has been a vocal supporter of Putin since the 1990s, later campaigning for his re-election and backing Russia's illegal annexation of Crimea in 2014 www.bbc.com/news/article...

håller även idag, flera intressanta röster i inslaget jag gjorde för fem år sedan: www.sverigesradio.se/artikel/7512... #srebrenica

Starovoyt’s death came amid a corruption probe into the construction of defensive fortifications in Kursk. Initial details remain murky. The first suicide of a senior Russian official in years, 'first to come amid scrutiny over decisions made during the war in Ukraine'. www.ft.com/content/98e2...

Lana Estemirova, daughter of the murdered human rights activist Natalia Estemirova, has published the book "Please Live: The Chechen Wars, My Mother and Me," sharing her experiences growing up in Chechnya, on a childhood shaped by war & complex relationship with her mother meduza.io/feature/2025...

Russian billionaire Oleg Deripaska has evaded indictment as part of a criminal case relating to minors being forced into prostitution, although his name appeared multiple times in the casework, a joint investigation by independent media outlets revealed: storage.googleapis.com/istories/sto...

Friday! schedules.ire.org/ire-2025/ind...

Roman Anin/iStories/OCCRP reveals that #Telegram’s infrastructure is partly controlled by a Russian engineer linked to companies working with the FSB and other Russian security agencies. This shows potential vulnerabilities to Russian surveillance: www.occrp.org/en/investiga...

stockholm och ekonomijournalister. jag behöver komma i kontakt med någon som jobbade på tidningen veckans affärer ca år 2000. eller tidigare. mejla mig om du kan svara på några frågor: [email protected] handlar ej om intervju men söker svar på en sak.

Ukraine’s Security Service has carried out a large coordinated attack on military airfields across Russia that it claims destroyed more than 40 warplanes. meduza.io/en/feature/2...

How the hacking team of #Russia’s military intelligence GRU Unit 29155 covertly manipulates global narratives by recruiting journalists to spread disinformation and hacked materials. Exposing lies, espionage, sex scandals, and deep fakes in a new investigation by The Insider theins.press/inv/281701

”Methods and techniques to investigate oligarchs” ofc! #IRE25

The Children’s Gulag. How a Canadian-funded project is mapping Russia’s network of camps where abducted Ukrainian children are being held - and helping to bring some of them home. My report www.theglobeandmail.com/world/articl...