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What Is Inside Vladimir Putin’s Head?
An attempt to psychoanalyze Russian authorities by Important Stories’ editor-in-chief Roman Anin
14 March
Roman Anin
Stories
IStories Have Identified the New Wife of Vladimir Putin’s “Secret Banker”
Daria Popova is a model and the co-owner of a company linked to Putin’s close associates. And her husband is the head of Gazprombank, Andrey Akimov
12 March
Editors,
Dmitry Velikovsky
Stories
Bypassing Sanctions: How British Company Renishaw Assists the Russian Army
Russian defense manufacturing plants benefit from British measuring equipment and software systems
7 March
Anastasia Korotkova
Stories
The Life of a State Banker: Only the Best for the Wives and Kids
The head of Gazprombank, Andrey Akimov, and his inner circle own an overseas property portfolio spanning from Ibiza to the Caribbean
9 February
Editors
Stories
Svatove Slaughter: What Was It Like
To stop the Ukrainian offensive on Svatove, the Russian command threw thousands of untrained mobilized people to the front line. Their relatives are telling what happened to them
18 January
Irina Dolinina
,
Rina Nikolaeva
Stories
Mobilizing Gay People, Mined Passports, Zelensky the Locust and “Glory to Urine!”
Ukraine was the target of most Russian fakes last year. The fact-checking project Provereno.Media summarizes the events of 2023.
27 December
Daniil Fedkevich
Stories
Central Asian Cotton Powers Russia’s Sanctioned Gunpowder Plants
Sanctions have complicated Russia’s effort to secure foreign-made military technology. But when it comes to sourcing the inputs for gunpowder — the explosive powering the army’s relentless artillery fire — Moscow can still rely on two Central Asian neighbors who have ramped up exports of cotton pulp, a key ingredient, since the invasion
21 December
Metin Kazama,
Olga Loginova,
Maria Zholobova
Stories
“You Will Die and No One Will Know”
How the kidnapping, torture and terror is organized in the center of Ukrainian guerrilla resistance — Russian-occupied Melitopol
3 October
Polina Uzhvak
,
Rina Nikolaeva
Stories
How Russian Parliamentary Leader Sergey Mironov and His New Wife Adopted a Child Kidnapped from Ukraine and Changed Her Identity
An investigation by IStories
23 November
Katya Bonch-Osmolovskaya
,
Dmitry Velikovsky
Stories
Kazakhstan Has Become a Pathway for the Supply of Russia’s War Machine. Here’s How It Works
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
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To Kidnap and Russify
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
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