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Russia Plans to Recruit at Least 225,000 People on Contract with the Defense Ministry in the Next Three Years
This follows from the draft expenditure budget for 2025–2027
13:51 - 4 October
Stories
A Holy War for the So-Called Traditional Values: Why Russia Is Fighting Against Childfree People
Russian authorities say banning childfreeness will help boost birth rates. Looking into whether this is true
24 September
Stories
“Nuclear Escalation Is a Two-Sided Game. It Is Not Being Played with Russia”
Since the beginning of the war with Ukraine, Vladimir Putin has been threatening the West with nuclear weapons and trying to make it part of the conflict. Nuclear policy experts explain to what extent he succeeds in that
20 September
News
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Who Runs One of the Most Popular Pro-War Telegram Channels
IStories reveal how an Airborne Forces officer, the son of a former deputy minister and possibly a General Staff officer make money from exclusive snuff videos from the war in Ukraine
11:00 - 24 September
News
News
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Russian Authorities Plans to Send 40% of Accused Persons to War
About 20 thousand people may go to the war front from pre-trial detention centers
05:07 - 1 October
News
Shooting at the Largest Russian Online Retailer’s Main Office Near the Kremlin. What Happened?
Two people killed, several injured
17:12 - 18 September
News
Announcing a New Editor-In-Chief at IStories
Alesya Marokhovskaya will replace Roman Anin, who will continue as the publisher
19:30 - 13 September
News
Exclusive
The Pace of Contract Soldier Recruitment in 2024 Has Accelerated by at Least 6 Times Compared to Last Year
This follows from data on federal budget expenditures for one-time payments for the contract signing
16:56 - 9 September
News
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Telegram’s Muddy Money
IStories found out that among the investors in Pavel Durov’s cryptocurrency were companies involved in schemes to export coal and metals from the occupied territories of Ukraine. They purchased resources taken from Donbas from Victor Yanukovych’s “purse” linked to Putin’s administration
11:59 - 6 September
News
Pavel Durov Has Visited Russia More Than 50 Times Since His “Exile” in 2014
He was in Russia when he was being sued by the FSB and on the day the Kremlin publicly dropped its claims against Telegram
16:06 - 27 August
News
Why Pavel Durov is Unpopular in Europe and the U.S.
We'll find out what official charges will be brought against him by Wednesday, August 28
17:11 - 27 August
Stories
Ukraine Has Been on the Offensive in the Kursk Region for Two Weeks Now. What Has It Achieved and What Will Happen Next?
It appears, that Ukrainian forces are preparing to hold onto recently captured territories. Military experts explain what their chances are
20 August
Opinions
“No Obstacles — Just Drive Forward”
A former commander of a Russian reconnaissance group explains why the Armed Forces of Ukraine broke through into the Kursk Oblast so easily
12 August
Irina Dolinina
Opinions
Is Putin’s Popular Support Real
Should we believe the polls that show that more than 80% of Russians support Putin? Maybe people are just afraid to tell the sociologists the truth?
21 August
Editors
Opinions
Why the Discussion of Putin’s Support Has Lost Its Meaning
An extended commentary by Grigory Yudin on a study that concludes that Russians’ actual support for Vladimir Putin is close to what sociological polls show
21 August
Grigory Yudin
Stories
Average Regional Payment for Russian Ministry of Defense Contracts Quadruples Since Start of Year
With the federal contribution included, it has reached 1 million rubles (about $10,970)
20 August
Sonya Savina
,
Egor Feoktistov
Stories
Why Pro-Russian War Supporters Call It a “Deal”
Explanations by political scientist, Z-propaganda researcher and military expert
16 August
Stories
Dead Russians Revived
There are Russian military personnel in Ukrainian captivity who are considered dead in their homeland. Their relatives have even managed to bury “remains” in closed coffins. The Russian Defense Ministry did not provide the DNA testing results to the relatives
6 August
Irina Dolinina
Stories
More Soldiers at All Costs
The Russian army could recruit one and a half times fewer new contract soldiers than the Defense Ministry claims. Are Russians willingly going to war? A research by IStories and CIT
1 August
Katya Bonch-Osmolovskaya
,
Sonya Savina
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Important Documentaries
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Wives of Mobilized Men on the War, Putin and the Future of Russia
A documentary by IStories
21 December
Stories
“Detective Found My Family”
How adoptees and their siblings live separated in Russia and abroad
15 June
Stories
Hell for the Mobilized Near Svatove
Stories of those missing in action and survivors’ accounts
18 January
Irina Dolinina
,
Rina Nikolaeva
Stories
Faces of Wagner
IStories looked into the life stories of the convicted criminals who died in Ukraine and were recruited by Russia’s infamous paramilitary organization Wagner PMC, talked to the victims of their crimes, relatives and friends
3 May
Alesya Marokhovskaya
,
Ekaterina Fomina
Stories
“Putin Pardoned the Murderers of Our Children.” A Film by IStories
True crime from modern-day Russia
21 October
Stories
How the Russian Servicemen Are Deserting and Escaping Russia so as Not to Kill in the War
IStories found military officers who fled Russia — they told us about the war crimes they have witnessed and why it is almost impossible to leave the Russian army
15 August
Ekaterina Fomina
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
“Guys Die for Nothing”
Buryatia’s losses in the war — what will the mobilization result in? A documentary by IStories
24 September
Stories
Eight Pskov Paratroopers in Bucha
The phone of a local resident who survived a mass shooting was found in Bucha. The occupiers used this phone to call home. IStories found them
27 June
Ekaterina Fomina
Stories
Refugees 2022. A Documentary by IStories
How they lose, escape, and help during the war
27 May
Irina Dolinina
,
Ekaterina Fomina
Stories
The Voices of the War in Ukraine
The month of Putin’s war in Ukraine is being told by the voices of people on both front lines in the IStories’ film
29 March
Irina Dolinina
Stories
“They Have Been Re-optimized to the Point That Soon No One Will Be Able to Get Sick at All”
20 million Russians may not be able to wait for an ambulance to arrive when their lives are at stake. A research and reportage by IStories
26 July
Sonya Savina
,
Editors
Stories
“I’m Never Going Back to That Hell. I Don’t Want to Give Birth in This Country Anymore”
In Russia, one baby dies during labour or pregnancy every minute — an IStories investigation
1 June
Sonya Savina
,
Editors
Stories
What the Post-war Future Holds for Russia: Drawing on the Case of Post-nazi Germany
A documentary by IStories
2 November
Stories
“I’m a Witness!” Who Helps the Police to Fabricate Drug Related Cases
Journalists from IStories and Meduza found more than 140 “regular” witnesses who testified in Moscow courts in the so called “drug” trials. They are the acquaintances of the policemen or those who are dependent from them. Despite gross violations of the law, the judges sent hundreds of people to jail
18 February
Alesya Marokhovskaya
Stories
Love, Offshores, and Administrative Resources: How Marrying Putin’s Daughter Gave Kirill Shamalov a World of Opportunity
Thousands of emails sent and received by Kirill Shamalov — Vladimir Putin’s former son-in-law — showcase the fantastic wealth and personal power that come with access to Russia’s first family
7 December
Roman Anin
,
Alesya Marokhovskaya
,
Irina Dolinina
,
Dmitry Velikovsky
,
Sonya Savina
,
Editors
Stories
“Ideologically Powered to Fight for Russia”
How a “marathons of desire” participant and a Ukrainian physicist from a European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) project assemble drones for the Russian army
17 July
Egor Feoktistov
Stories
Dmitry Mironov, A Putin’s “Sonny”
The story of one of the most closed officials in Russia — the chief personnel officer of the Russian regime
9 July
Maria Zholobova,
Roman Anin
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From Passion to Persecution: How the Kremlin Chief Censor’s Cultural Dream Became a Russian Nightmare
An investigation into how presidential administration employee, Sergey Novikov, became the chief censor of Russian culture
8 July
Svetlana Reiter,
Maria Zholobova,
Kristina Safonova,
Andrey Pertsev
Stories
Criminal Proceedings Initiated Against the IStories’ Editor-In-Chief and a Former Journalist of the Outlet
Details of Russian investigation claims against Roman Anin and Ekaterina Fomina
17 June
Editors
Stories
“We Can Still Contact Technical Support in the West”
Russian weapons are being manufactured on foreign machinery — but why are they still running? An investigation by IStories
13 June
Anastasia Korotkova
Stories
The Great Wikipedia Edit War
How Russian billionaires manage their biographies on Wikipedia since the start of the war by deleting information about their citizenship, property, sanctions, and ties to the Kremlin. An investigation by IStories and Wikiganda
15 April
Yulia Starostina
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
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