Maria Georgieva

They act under diplomatic cover – but are russian intelligence officers. Uppdrag @granskning has investigated 21 suspected agents, 13 of which are active today. Don’t miss our special site. #skuggkriget #skyggekrigen These are Putin's spies in #Sweden: svt.se/special/putins…

FSB’s notorious Second Service – the unit tied to Navalny’s poisoning – has quietly become the main curator of Runet, now driving messenger bans, VPN crackdowns and pressure on Russian tech companies, the Bell reports: thebell.io/teper-oni-vse-…

Medverkar i detta panelsamtal i Lund 28/4. Med bl.a. Martin Gelin: lu.se/evenemang/deba…

Novaya Gazeta journalist Oleg Roldugin formally charged with illegal data access Roldugin is a veteran investigative journalist known for his reporting on corruption among top Russian officials, including Ramzan Kadyrov and ex-president Dmitry Medvedev. theins.press/en/news/291483

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“Everyone is against [more internet restrictions] except one agency,” said a source close to the government, referring to the FSB. “My teenage children complain: ‘Come to your senses, what are you doing?’ vlast.is/p/elitedivide @faridaily_

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Novaya Gazeta, the newspaper Mr. Muratov co-founded, is being searched by members of Russia's security services, according to their channel on Telegram: t.me/novaya_pishet/…

Russia detains former Radio Free Europe freelance journalist on treason charge reuters.com/business/media…

Nearly half of Russians — 49 percent — continued to read Telegram channels even as the app was effectively blocked across the country, the Levada Center polling organization found. meduza.io/en/news/2026/0…

Den sk vita listan av ”godkända portaler” saknar ca 50 av de populäraste tjänsterna, enligt en beräkning som en kollega gjorde. VPN-tjänster räcker inte för att runda Roskomnadzor kontroller. VPN måste "kläs" i trafik som ser ut som Yandex för att ha en chans att fungera.

Inga av de jag har pratat med den senaste tiden i #Ryssland förstår hur begränsningen av internet ska skydda dem, och anser att nedstängningarna i praktiken slår mot befolkningen, hot om avskräckning, hård kontroll och brist på vpn (trots att många betalar för tjänster).

Pratar om vad mina källor i Ryssland säger om nedstängningen av internet, och mer därtill, i Efter fem idag. Tv4.

Colleague & friend Christo Grozev has been "invited to support the work of the temporary coordination mechanism within the MFA s to counter disinformation and combat hybrid threats ahead of the April 19 early #Bulgaria's parliamentary elections" bta.bg/en/news/bulgar…

New: We obtained phone calls between Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and Hungarian Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó showing them conspiring to lift EU sanctions on Russia -- from oligarchs to banks to the shadow fleet. Full story with consortium partners at @InsiderEng: theins.press/en/inv/290911

⚡️SCOOP: Putin gathered oligarchs behind closed doors and asked them to pitch in for the war in Ukraine Today Putin held a closed-door meeting with Russia’s largest businessmen. The contents of such meetings are typically not disclosed, and since the war began even the list of attendees has been classified. But The Bell has learned that Putin discussed the continuation of the war and its financing with the oligarchs 1/6

NEW INVESTIGATION: Europe’s largest refinery of alumina — the main raw material used to make aluminum — has been sending the majority of its exports to Russian smelters that feed into the supply chain of EU-sanctioned arms manufacturers. Our new investigation with @istories_eng, KibOrg, @tijd, @IrishTimes, @guardian, @DelfiEE: occrp.org/en/investigati…

Maria Kalesnikava spent more than 5 years in jail in Belarus for daring to oppose Lukashenko, much of it incommunicado - no letters or parcels. Refusing to give in to hatred or anger, she danced in her cell. Now she campaigns to free others from his jails nytimes.com/2026/03/20/wor…

Russian officials have added my boss, Ivan Kolpakov, to the national wanted list. It's just the latest police attack on Meduza. Last year, cofounder Galina Timchenko was sentenced in absentia to five years in prison for her work at Meduza. zona.media/news/2026/03/1…

The story shows how footage leaks from drones, helmet cams and army HQs, becomes both war-crimes evidence for the UN and a monetised content stream for Russian propagandists and trash-marketers.

New iStories investigation exposes a cottage industry of #Telegram channels built on real war atrocities from #Russia’s invasion of #Ukraine: execution videos, torture of POWs repackaged as “18+ content” and monetised with ads, cross-promo and donations: istories.media/stories/2026/0…