Read our latest crazy story on the spy who was so successful at pretending he's someone else that the GRU "killed off" his real persona and stranded him with the fake one. From a fake environmental expert to a purveyor of fake news: theins.press/en/inv/286477

More than a year's worth of investigation into the very Russian life of ex-Wirecard COO, and wannabe Russian super-spy Jan Marsalek: in English: theins.ru/en/inv/284980

❗A dozen knives in the back of the Islamic revolution: Secret FSB documents confirm Iran and Russia are waging a spy war against each other A new investigation by @christogrozev.bsky.social and @dobrokhotov.bsky.social.

Only part of this is true. Please be careful to not spread false (while well-intentioned) information as it hurts real investigations in the future. The Russian with the "same password" is a totally random person who happened to use a very similar Gmail username. That password is unrelated to Gor.

This from @christogrozev.bsky.social is worth a watch youtube.com/watch?v=y8i-...

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How the GRU's Unit 29155 hacking department obsessed over @bellingcat.com, created the biolabs conspiracy and left their targeting server unprotected....among other crazy findings in this latest investigation: theins.press/en/inv/281731

NBC reports that, shockingly, during his latest Moscow pilgrimage Witkoff met with Putin and his two negotiators alone and without his own interpreter, relying - in breach of protocol - on a locally present one www.nbcnews.com/world/russia.... However, this seems half the problem (1/n)

Exclusive: Bellingcat in partnership with @tjekdet.dk , @politiken.dk and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) can reveal the identity of a key administrator behind MrDeepFakes, one of the world’s largest providers of non-consensual deepfake pornography. www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/05...

Check out Episode 2 of TheChristoFiles series on GRU's black ops unit 29155. "Arugula with a side of Novichok" - the poisoning of Emilian Gebrev. Just out. youtu.be/Kix20ABpJQw?...

How we discovered the GRU team behind the Novichok poisonings in Salisbury. A peek under the hood in the latest episode from TheChristoFiles youtu.be/z55R5PODC60?...

Trump tried to extort Zelenskyy and was impeached – now he may succeed www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Just spoke at the USC inaugural Open Source Journalism Conference about the investigation into the Berlin bicycle assassin - and now there's a whole video that explains how the investigation was done. Check it out: youtu.be/Kl9aaCDSOzs

I never thought that Pierre Louvrier, about whose deep connections to Russian oligarchs with GRU links I wrote 10 years ago (and who bluffed he would sue me), would one day pop up in US confirmation hearings. cgrozev.wordpress.com/2015/03/26/m...

Saw the world premiere of The Stringer - a beautiful and disturbing film investigating - and proving beyond reasonable doubt using #OSINT - that the iconic Napalm Girl photo was not taken by AP's Pulitzer winning photographer Nick Ut, but by a Vietnamese stringer (2nd from right)

Here's a deep dive into the GRU bounty program that paid tens of millions of $ to the Taliban to kill US and allied soldiers in Afghanistan. youtu.be/FKgCr0Sj83Y?...

BREAKING: the House sub-committee on intelligence says "now convinced that foreign adversary behind AHI (Havana syndrome) incidents", "Intelligence community has hindered the subcommittee's efforts" to get to the truth.

And here's the text version of our investigation theins.ru/en/politics/...

Remember Pablo Gonzalez, the "Spanish" "journalist" whom so many believed to be an innocent victim of Western spymania? Well, the nail is on the coffin - or should we say the "fancy-bear hug" - proving he was a GRU illegal. Video here: youtu.be/Q-FUsXwCFF8?...

Tomorrow's Friday again and time for another "sloppy spy" story. Make sure you've seen the previous two episodes before the new one drops.

Get your Friday 🍿 and settle down for another episode in "The Big Swap" - The Spy Who Confessed: youtu.be/jFbjQswxch0?...

In a new "can't make this shit up" . moment, Maria Zakharova gets a call during her live presser today, and you can hear a male voice tell her to not comment the IBCM launch. Is this another Moscow4 moment, or is it a staged poker bluff meant for the West?

Excited my kids convinced me to launch M4Studio - a YouTube channel to share the behind the scenes of some of my team's most insane investigations over the years - how we burned hundreds of spies, exposed implausible government plots and conspiracies, and leveraged new open-source methods to do it.