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Yuri Sadovenko, a former deputy minister of defense of the Russian Federation and a longtime associate of Security Council Secretary Sergei Shoigu, has died at the age of 56 under circumstances described by sources as suspicious.

The Chichkanov brothers didn’t merely orchestrate a scheme to funnel money through their Kislovodsk hotel — they seem to have secured protection from the FSB.

Roman Novak (also known as Yavorsky and Tsaryov), a native of St. Petersburg, was convicted in Russia in 2020 on large-scale fraud charges (Part 4, Article 159 of the Russian Criminal Code) and sentenced to six years in a penal colony.

Fugitive Ukrainian oligarch Serhiy Kurchenko, a reported sponsor of the FSB’s Department of Public Inquiry (DPI), is close to completing renovations on his new Moscow residence — a historic mansion near Patriarch’s Ponds.

Boris Korolev, the son of the First Deputy Director of the FSB, was found to be part of a complex network involving several dozen companies connected by shared domains and corporate email accounts.

A new investigation by the media reveals that the key figures behind Himera Search — Russia’s largest illegal personal-data marketplace — include two former officers of the Moscow Criminal Investigation Department (MUR), while the brother of one of them currently serves in the FSB.

How Vladimir Litvinenko, rector of the Mining University, transformed the university into a source of billions, political influence, and elite real estate

"Everything is fine with the security forces in Russia, believe me."

As investigators piece together the brutal murder of Roman and Anna Novak, the trail points to a murky intersection of Telegram’s inner circle, ex–law enforcement operatives, and Russian intelligence ties.

A Russian opposition activist arrested in Poland and due to go on trial next month has admitted he worked as an undercover agent for Russia’s FSB security service and informed on other opposition figures, court documents claim.

In the fall of 2025, the Russian segment of Telegram experienced the most extensive wave of purges in recent years — with searches, detentions, and the blocking of channels that were once considered influential and nearly untouchable.

From Messaging App to Money Channel: Allegations of Telegram’s Use in Kremlin-Backed Financial Schemes.

After the detention of a Kazakh KNS officer, Anuar Bakibay, in Poland, a major scandal erupted, revealing that the KNS not only engages in espionage activities on behalf of Russia but also sells personal data of Kazakh citizens at discounted prices.

How did the "Telegram world" emerge as a socially significant platform? It all started with the Telegram channel "Nezigar."

A British national accused of spying for Russia in Ukraine and preparing to carry out terrorist attacks has been arrested, Ukrainian prosecutors said on Wednesday.

Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) has launched a criminal case against exiled former oil magnate Mikhail Khodorkovsky and members of the Anti-War Committee of Russia—established by exiled politicians and activists in February 2022—alleging they plotted a violent seizure of power and organized a terrorist group.

Nomma Zarubina, accused of lying to the FBI about her Russian intelligence contacts and of transporting women for prostitution, avoided pretrial detention after prosecutors said she broke a deal by sending dozens of late-night messages to an agent.

A fugitive tech boss turned Russian spymaster has been found in Moscow.

The June events in Yekaterinburg seem to have exposed a massive abscess on the "body" of Sverdlovsk Oblast.

Against the backdrop of international isolation and internal instability in Russia, the significance of ethnic criminal clans is rapidly growing.

Valeriy Bitaev is a figure at the intersection of business, security structures, and the shadow economy.

The attacks on Iran by Israel and the U.S. elicited a critical yet highly restrained response from the Kremlin.

A new investigation has cast a long shadow over Telegram’s claims of privacy and independence.

On January 16, the Russian Forbes, owned by the Kremlin oligarch Magomed Musayev, whose biography and activities are closely intertwined with the KGB and FSB (which are essentially the same thing), published an article by Ilya Zhegulev...

The technical infrastructure that underpins Telegram is controlled by a man whose companies have collaborated with Russian intelligence services.