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Rysslandsgranskaren och en av samtidens mest inflytelserika journalister Christo Grozev intervjuas av Magnus Thorén. Han har avslöjat ryska spioner, Putinregimens kopplingar till mordförsök på oppositionella och hur den ryska säkerhetstjänsten FSB opererar i Väst. För det har Christo Grozev hamnat på Putins dödslista och lever under konstant hot. Hur ser han på framtiden för Ryssland, utvecklingen i USA under Donald Trump och de risker han utsätter sin familj för genom sitt arbete? Känns priset för sanningen ibland för högt?

Rysslandsgranskaren och en av samtidens mest inflytelserika journalister Christo Grozev intervjuas av Magnus Thorén. Han har avslöjat ryska spioner, Putinregimens kopplingar till mordförsök på oppositionella och hur den ryska säkerhetstjänsten FSB opererar i Väst. För det har Christo Grozev hamnat på Putins dödslista och lever under konstant hot. Hur ser han på framtiden för Ryssland, utvecklingen i USA under Donald Trump och de risker han utsätter sin familj för genom sitt arbete? Känns priset för sanningen ibland för högt?

As Europe celebrates the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II, Ukraine is still under brutal Russian attack. And while Donald Trump vowed to end the war in 24 hours, three months into his second term the negotiations have stalled. Christiane speaks with a man who might have an insight into Trump's tactics: Finnish president Alexander Stubb. He spent hours golfing with Trump in March and was seated next to him at Pope Francis' recent funeral.    Also on today's show: journalist Christo Grozev and "Antidote" Producer-Director James Jones; NYT Technology Reporter David Yaffe-Bellany    Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

'Antidote' profiles the Bulgarian journalist Christo Grozev, who's uncovered hundreds of Russian secret agents. Filmmaker James Jones follows Grozev after European authorities inform him that he's being targeted by assassins. 

Christo Grozev is a Bulgarian investigative journalist who has spent years tracking down Russian spies and is on Vladimir Putin's wanted list. Grozev's open-source journalism exposed spies linked to the poisoning of Sergei and Yulia Skripal in 2018 and Alexei Navalny in 2020. Now he is at the centre of his own sinister Kremlin plot, as a Bulgarian spy-ring was sent by Moscow to target him and planned to kidnap and kill him, before they were arrested and convicted in the UK. He speaks to Krishnan Guru-Murthy in this episode of Ways to Change the World ahead of the streaming release of his new documentary ‘Kill List: Hunted by Putin's Spies' - which is available on Channel 4. Produced by Silvia Maresca, Calum Fraser, Ka Yee Mak.  

The incoming National Security Adviser tonight, doubling down on Trump's threats to take Greenland by military force if necessary. Plus, famed investigative journalist Christo Grozev says Russian intelligence officers paid to have people kill Americans. Also, a reporter who had just debunked a bizarre conspiracy theory about Elon Musk was kicked off X hours later.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

THIS IS NOT INVESTMENT ADVICE. INVESTING IS RISKY AND OFTEN PAINFUL. DO YOUR OWN RESEARCH.There are about 45,000 Russian casualties a month now in Ukraine. That equates to a rate of 540,000 soldiers per year or about 1% of Russia's male, fighting-age population, thus the call to North Korea to supply troops. About 15% of Russia's population died in World War 2, so today's losses are modest in comparison but by modern standards an incomprehensible cost for territorial gain. Almost all of those who die come from Russia's hinterlands. An American equivalent would be if the Pentagon emptied US jails, drafted from the poorest zip codes, sent them to attack Canada, and then gave generous cash packages to the next of kin. Some provincial Russians have even welcomed the war because the poorest, most alcoholic locals have been disposed of and replaced with a cash subsidy. The question is if President-elect Trump will view Putin's negotiating position as strong. I don't know the answer. I do know Trump's answer has vast implications for geopolitics. China is weighing Taiwan, Iran is weighing its tactic of spreading death and chaos in the Middle East. This also matters for US government finances, bond yields, and equity valuations. Today, I want to talk about the policy choice and financial implications and also share a conversation I had with Lt. Gen (Ret) HR McMaster, Trump's former National Security Advisor. He offers a perspective I lack and I am grateful he made the time to talk with me and allowed me to share that conversation with you. US Policy DecisionWhile Republicans control the White House and Congress, there are splinters within the Party. Some are isolationists, others are internationalists. HR does not share his affiliation but he believes the US can be a force for good. If someone like Musk wants to cut government spending, he needs to slash either social security, medicare, or defense. Slashing defense would narrow the US budget deficit and be a radical restructuring of the global order. But such a sharp jag is off-brand for traditional Republicans. A report by Senator Wicker (R. Miss) is making the rounds. It is titled “Peace Through Strength” and is clearly meant for Trump's desk. Below is an excerpt. I put the key sentence in bold. America's national defense strategy and military budget are inadequate for the dangerous world in which we find ourselves. An emerging axis of aggressors is working to undermine U.S. interests across the globe. Congress and military leaders agree: The United States has not faced such a dangerous threat environment since the years before World War II. The epicenter of this test is Ukraine. Regardless of Party, US Presidents have not wanted to deal with Russia for the last quarter century. It's far away, has almost no economic relationship with the US, and is highly corrupt. But time and again, US Presidents have been forced to focus on Russia in a way that has sometimes sabotaged their domestic agenda. Could this happen to Trump 2.0?ContextPutin took over on December 31, 1999. Not long after problems began developing and each US President sought their best to ignore them for the same reason—they didn't want to engage in conflict. However, this has only allowed the situation in Russia to metastasize. This echoes the same process that unfolded in Germany in the 1930s, so Wicker's comment is apt. While Russian assassinations at home and abroad began early in Putin's reign, the key events where the US whiffed was when:* Russia annexed parts of Georgia under President Bush in 2008.* Russia annexed Crimea in 2014 under President Obama.* Russia fired on Ukrainian ships in 2018 traveling between Ukrainian ports under President Trump.* Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022 under President Biden.In each case, the response was bumbling and timid. Note that Russia and the US both signed the 1994 Budapest Memorandum whereby Ukraine gave up its nukes in return for its borders being secured. While it sounds extreme, I don't think it is a stretch to say that this is the 1930s with Putin playing the role of Hitler and the US playing the role of UK's Neville Chamberlain. Russia has slowly been swallowing more territory, violating international law, and threatening the West with nuclear war if the West intervenes. The assassinations on Western territory continue. Just last week, the UK foiled a Russian plot to murder investigative journalist Christo Grozev. If Putin isn't stopped in Ukraine, I believe he will move on, possibly to the Baltics. Fiscal ImplicationsThe US budget deficit is currently at 6%, even as the economy is strong. This is unusual. The only solution to narrow the deficit is by raising taxes and cutting spending. The solution isn't conceptually complicated but it is politically toxic. But what will Trump do? From what I can tell reading McMaster's books, Trump is conflicted. He wants to appear “strong” and also hates foreign entanglements. His ideal environments are neater, like Trump Tower or Mar a Lago or a golf course he owns. If he were to quickly sign a peace deal with Putin, I suspect Trump would look weak. But Ukraine is exactly the type of mess he wants to avoid. To deter Russia, the US is going to need to spend a lot of money. McMaster said he thought the US defense budget needed to go from 3% of GDP to 5% of GDP. Without tax hikes, that would drive the deficit to 8% of GDP and possibly drive bond yields to 5% or 6%. This then would hit the stock and housing markets. Since Trump got elected, US bond yields have fallen. It's interesting and counter-intuitive unless one thinks a significant adjustment in government spending is coming. This is also a bet that the Fed will cut rates later this month, of course. 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Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong Un make a deal as investigative reporter Christo Grozev has new details about the spies Putin wants from Kim. Plus, new reporting on Trump's ground game, bigger than anyone knew and why he may have the Democrats to thank for that.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

“Havana Syndrome” - reported by hundreds of U.S. officials, diplomats, CIA Officers, FBI Agents and White House staff - as well as some members of their families – is described as including severe headaches accompanied by loss of balance and often followed by cognitive issues. Some doctors have concluded that the likely source is a directed energy weapon that uses microwave or ultrasound waves to attack the brain and inner ear. In this episode, Cipher Brief Managing Editor Tom Nagorski talks with Christo Grozev, a journalist who served as a lead investigator on Havana Syndrome for a publication called The Insider and Insider Editor Michael Weiss as well as former senior CIA officer and Cipher Brief Expert Marc Polymeropoulos, who says that he himself was struck during a visit to Moscow. Grozev and Weiss also share the findings of their recent investigation conducted in cooperation with 60 Minutes and the German news magazine Der Spiegel that indicates who is behind Havana Syndrome, saying they have uncovered evidence that members of a special Russian military intelligence unit may be to blame. The revelations of their investigation have called into question findings by U.S. intelligence agencies that found – in their own investigations - that the “Anomalous Health Incidents” as they call them - are not the result of a coordinated effort by Russia or anyone else. Full reports of the government's findings can be found online.  This podcast focuses on another side of this continuing story. 

On this week's episode, Max and Maria sat down with Roman Dobrokhotov, the founder and editor-in-chief of the Russia-focused investigative media outlet, The Insider. Roman's team, along with colleagues at CBS's 60 Minutes and the German outlet Der Spiegel, recently concluded an investigation that uncovered evidence potentially linking Russia's military intelligence agency, the GRU, with the health incidents impacting U.S. government officials and their families that have come to be known as "Havana Syndrome." Show Notes: "Unraveling Havana Syndrome: New evidence links the GRU's assassination Unit 29155 to mysterious attacks on U.S. officials and their families" by Roman Dobrokhotov, Christo Grozev, and Michael Weiss (The Insider)

Investigative journalists Christo Grozev, Roman Dobrokhotov and Michael Weiss have been looking into the Havana Syndrome since 2020. They initially approached the topic skeptically, questioning the capability of any government to carry out such a mass global attack. However, they discovered a document linking a Russian military unit to the Havana weapon, which sparked their investigation. They have been gathering evidence of overlaps between the travel of members of this unit and incidents related to the Havana Syndrome. The journalists have presented a prosecution case, highlighting motive, means, and opportunity, and are calling for the U.S. government to act as a defense attorney for the accused criminals. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Investigative journalists Christo Grozev, Roman Dobrokhotov and Michael Weiss have been looking into the Havana Syndrome since 2020. They initially approached the topic skeptically, questioning the capability of any government to carry out such a mass global attack. However, they discovered a document linking a Russian military unit to the Havana weapon, which sparked their investigation. They have been gathering evidence of overlaps between the travel of members of this unit and incidents related to the Havana Syndrome. The journalists have presented a prosecution case, highlighting motive, means, and opportunity, and are calling for the U.S. government to act as a defense attorney for the accused criminals. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Investigative journalists Christo Grozev, Roman Dobrokhotov and Michael Weiss have been looking into the Havana Syndrome since 2020. They initially approached the topic skeptically, questioning the capability of any government to carry out such a mass global attack. However, they discovered a document linking a Russian military unit to the Havana weapon, which sparked their investigation. They have been gathering evidence of overlaps between the travel of members of this unit and incidents related to the Havana Syndrome. The journalists have presented a prosecution case, highlighting motive, means, and opportunity, and are calling for the U.S. government to act as a defense attorney for the accused criminals. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Von Michael Nikbakhsh. Die 67. Ausgabe der Dunkelkammer behandelt den Fall Egisto Ott. Das ist ein ehemaliger Beamter des BVT (heute DSN), der jahrelang geheime Informationen aus Polizeidatenbanken an Dritte weitergegeben haben soll, auch gegen Geld. Sein wichtigster Abnehmer war offenbar der russische Geheimdienst FSB – via Jan Marsalek. Diese Recherche auf Grundlage von Ermittlungsakten geht nicht nur den Vorwürfen gegen Egisto Ott und seinen früheren Vorgesetzten Martin Weiss nach. Sie zeigt auch auf, dass im Innenministerium jedenfalls zu dieser Zeit grobe Defizite im Umgang mit sensiblen Daten bestanden.   /////  Die Dunkelkammer ist ein Stück Pressefreiheit. Unabhängigen Journalismus mit einer Spende oder einem Steady-Abo unterstützen? Mehr dazu auf diedunkelkammer.at

On February 16th, it was announced that Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny had died in prison. The Vladimir Putin critic had been in Russian captivity on charges of embezzlement and extremism – and had recently been transferred to a remote penal colony in the Arctic Circle, where Russian authorities claimed the 47-year old died from “sudden death syndrome.” In the wake of the tragic news, world leaders directly blamed Putin for Navalny's death. In 2022, Alec Baldwin spoke with Daniel Roher, the director of the Academy-Award-winning documentary, “Navalny,” which follows the activist in the wake of his 2020 poisoning as he works to uncover those responsible for the assassination attempt against him, before voluntarily returning to Russia. Roher and his collaborator in the film, investigative journalist Christo Grozev, spoke with Alec Baldwin about Navalny's bravery, why poison is the Kremlin's weapon of choice and the final moments they spent with Navalny before his heroic return to Russia.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

  Russia's jailed opposition leader, Alexei Navalny, has died in prison. Navalny had been living behind bars since shortly after landing in Moscow in January of 2021. He had been returning home following months of recovery in Europe, after he fell violently sick on a flight between Siberia and Moscow.  In the months following Navalny's poisoning, Christo Grozev, former lead Russia investigator at Bellingcat, was stuck in Vienna with filmmaker Daniel Roher. The two had just been booted from Ukraine, where they had been trying to film an investigation. Grozev suddenly had a lot of time on his hands, a laptop, and a fresh stack of data from the Russian black market so naturally he began to investigate who was behind the poisoning.  Daniel Roher directed the documentary “Navalny,” which portrays the story of the close collaboration between Navalny, his team, and Grozev, in the hunt for the dissident's would-be killers. Last year, Brooke spoke to Roher and Grozev about the making of the documentary, which won the Oscar for Best Documentary Feature. This is a segment from our February 10, 2023 show, Hide and Seek.

  Russia's jailed opposition leader, Alexei Navalny, has died in prison. Navalny had been living behind bars since shortly after landing in Moscow in January of 2021. He had been returning home following months of recovery in Europe, after he fell violently sick on a flight between Siberia and Moscow.  In the months following Navalny's poisoning, Christo Grozev, former lead Russia investigator at Bellingcat, was stuck in Vienna with filmmaker Daniel Roher. The two had just been booted from Ukraine, where they had been trying to film an investigation. Grozev suddenly had a lot of time on his hands, a laptop, and a fresh stack of data from the Russian black market so naturally he began to investigate who was behind the poisoning.  Daniel Roher directed the documentary “Navalny,” which portrays the story of the close collaboration between Navalny, his team, and Grozev, in the hunt for the dissident's would-be killers. Last year, Brooke spoke to Roher and Grozev about the making of the documentary, which won the Oscar for Best Documentary Feature. This is a segment from our February 10, 2023 show, Hide and Seek.

Tragically, opposition leader Alexei Navalny has died in a Russian prison. He bravely fought for freedom for his country, but his life was cut short by authoritarian dictator Vladmir Putin. Last year, the documentary, NAVALNY won the Academy Award for Best Documentary. It is now more important than ever to see it. Director Daniel Roher & journalist Christo Grozev joined the podcast last year to talk about Navalny's life and the making of the film.

Original Air Date: August 26. 2023 On this special episode of Foreign Office, Michael is joined by Roman Dobrokhotov, a Russian investigative journalist, political scientist and former activist and Christo Grozev, a Bulgarian investigative journalist and author and the lead Russia investigator with Bellingcat, focusing on security threats, extraterritorial clandestine operations, and the weaponization of information. The three discuss the alleged assassination of former Wagner Group Leader, Yevgeny Prigozhin. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Original Air Date: August 26. 2023 On this special episode of Foreign Office, Michael is joined by Roman Dobrokhotov, a Russian investigative journalist, political scientist and former activist and Christo Grozev, a Bulgarian investigative journalist and author and the lead Russia investigator with Bellingcat, focusing on security threats, extraterritorial clandestine operations, and the weaponization of information. The three discuss the alleged assassination of former Wagner Group Leader, Yevgeny Prigozhin. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

First, what lasting damage to the entertainment industry will the extended impasse between striking Hollywood creatives, and the Alliance of Motion Pictures and Television Producers leave in its wake?  Then, in an encore interview, Navalny director Daniel Roher and investigative journalist Christo Grozev discuss how they came to pursue a film about Alexei Navalny, Russian opposition leader. They also talk about the risks they faced to make the Oscar-winning documentary, and the eventual arrest and sentencing of the politician in Russia. 

On this special episode of Foreign Office, Michael is joined by Roman Dobrokhotov, a Russian investigative journalist, political scientist and former activist and Christo Grozev, a Bulgarian investigative journalist and author and the lead Russia investigator with Bellingcat, focusing on security threats, extraterritorial clandestine operations, and the weaponization of information. The three discuss the alleged assassination of former Wagner Group Leader, Yevgeny Prigozhin. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On this special episode of Foreign Office, Michael is joined by Roman Dobrokhotov, a Russian investigative journalist, political scientist and former activist and Christo Grozev, a Bulgarian investigative journalist and author and the lead Russia investigator with Bellingcat, focusing on security threats, extraterritorial clandestine operations, and the weaponization of information. The three discuss the alleged assassination of former Wagner Group Leader, Yevgeny Prigozhin. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On this special episode of Foreign Office, Michael is joined by Roman Dobrokhotov, a Russian investigative journalist, political scientist and former activist and Christo Grozev, a Bulgarian investigative journalist and author and the lead Russia investigator with Bellingcat, focusing on security threats, extraterritorial clandestine operations, and the weaponization of information. The three discuss the alleged assassination of former Wagner Group Leader, Yevgeny Prigozhin. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Supreme Court protected access to a widely used abortion drug by freezing lower-court rulings that placed restrictions on its usage as appeals play out.  As a result, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's approval of the drug mifepristone will remain in place for now. Dr. Jane Henney joins Anderson to talk about this decision. She was the FDA commissioner when mifepristone was approved.  And in Russia, a court ordered the arrest of well-known investigative journalist Christo Grozev, who works with Bellingcat, and has an extensive track record of uncovering stories exposing the Kremlin and Vladimir Putin. He joins Anderson for an exclusive interview.   To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy

Stephen Sackur speaks to Christo Grozev, Bellingcat's lead Russia investigator. His work has exposed crimes and embarrassed the Kremlin. What motivates this digital detective?

Director Daniel Roher is over the moon with the Oscar nom for his bio-doc “Navalny.” “How bittersweet this experience has been for me personally, as [a] filmmaker,” he affirms. “This film has put my life on a rocket ship, [and] has empowered creative career opportunities I never could have dreamed of.” Investigative journalist Christo Grozev, however, took one of the biggest risks imaginable: working on a film about Alexei Navalny, Russian opposition leader, has landed him on Putin's wanted list. “When Navalny and I were saying our goodbyes, when he was about to leave for Berlin, he literally turned to me and said, ‘Well, until now I was number one on Putin's list, and from now on, you're number one on Putin's kill list.' And it seems that he was not joking,” Grozev says. Roher and Grozev discuss how they came to pursue a film about Navalny, the risks they faced, and the eventual arrest and sentencing of the politician in Russia. 

Director Daniel Roher & journalist Christo Grozev join Mase & Sue on the CULTURE POP PODCAST to talk about their powerful Academy Award-nominated documentary NAVALNY, including what prompted the Russian opposition leader's poisoning, the events related to it, and the subsequent investigation. Plus, the unexpected circumstances that led to the making of the film.

Pracoval na investigaci otrav Sergeje Skripala, Alexeje Navalného i na kauze ruského sestřelení malajsijského letu MH17. Teď ho kontaktoval jeho zdroj, že je v hledáčku ruských tajných služeb. Je novinář Christo Grozev v nebezpečí? Filip Titlbach mluví s reportérkou zahraniční redakce Deníku N Anitou Mejzrovou.

Christo Grozev once humorously described himself as an ‘internet nerd' who hunted Russian trolls in his spare time. Well, his hobby has now made him an internationally celebrated journalist - and earned him a place on Russia's most wanted list. As Lead Russia Investigator for the open-source investigative website Bellingcat, Grozev is one of the best people to talk to if you want to learn more about the war of information being fought by Moscow, and how data trails from some of the GRU's more clumsy spies are giving canny investigators and journalists the chance to expose some of Russia's activities it would rather you not know about. Sir Richard Dearlove and Julia Macfarlane sit down with him to find out more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

An ancient scapegoat for society's woes is back in the news. On this week's On the Media, a deeper look at the confusing landscape of modern anti-semitism. Plus, a conversation with some of the dogged reporters who spent years uncovering the truth behind the 2014 Malaysia Airlines crash in Ukraine. 1. Leo Ferguson [@LeoFergusonnyc], the Director of Strategic Projects for the Jews for Racial & Economic Justice, on the rise of modern anti-Semitism. Listen. 2. Aric Toler [@AricToler], Director of Research and Training at Bellingcat, an investigative news outlet, and Roman Dobrokhotov [@Dobrokhotov], the Founder and Editor-in-Chief of The Insider, a Russian investigative online news outlet, on what it took to uncover the truth behind the 2014 Malaysia Airlines crash in eastern Ukraine. Listen. 3. Christo Grozev [@christogrozev], the lead Russia investigator with Bellingcat, about how he uncovered the real identity of a Russian "sleeper" agent who went by the name Maria Adela. Listen.

Killing civilians is like a computer game. Christo Grozev investigates the secret Russian agency that programs missile strikes on civilian targets in Ukraine (Latynina.tv) #latyninatv #grozev Russian journalist Yulia Latynina (#latyninatv) interviews Christo Grozev about his latest investigation (jointly conducted by Bellingcat, The Insider, and Der Spiegel) of how they used black-market phone records to discover the secret Russian army agency in charge of programming the high-precision Kalibr, Iskander, and Kh-101 missile strikes to hit Ukraine's mostly civilian targets. Do these young professionals feel any remorse for their actions?- English translation #PrivateerStation- Original interview in Russian - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1r5FJ_Qmh4s- Link to the Bellingcat investigation - https://www.bellingcat.com/news/uk-and-europe/2022/10/24/the-remote-control-killers-behind-russias-cruise-missile-strikes-on-ukraine/Yulia Latynina is a Russian writer and journalist. She is a columnist for Novaya Gazeta and the most popular host at the Echo of Moscow radio station for years (both media prohibited in Russia since 04/2022). Yulia Latynina has written more than twenty books, including fantasy and crime fiction. She left Russia after a series of attacks on her person (her life was repeatedly threatened, her home was attacked with some caustic gas, injuring 8 people and her vehicle was set on fire)Official channel: http://latynina.tv/Julia's FB: https://www.facebook.com/yulia.latyni...Twitter: https://twitter.com/YLatyninaTelegram: https://t.me/Ylatynina подписывайтесьInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/latynina.tv/ #war #Putin #Ukraine #Latynina #LatyninaTV #YuliaLatynina #латынина #латынинатв #ukrainewar #ukrainerussia #ukrainerussiawar #russia #donbass #macron #missilestrike #schütze #severodonetsk #kherson #zolotoy #biden #Arestovych #kremenchug #g7 #nato #fifthproject #lisichansk

(00:00) Op1 - De opening van 3 november (11:55) Vivianne Heijnen over de toekomst van treinreizend Nederland (23:55) Christo Grozev en Yoeri Albrecht over de onthullingen van Bellingcat (40:11) Roxane van Iperen ziet overeenkomsten tussen de genocide in Rwanda en de oorlog in Oekraïne (47:45) Tom Egbers vertrekt volgende week naar het WK in Qatar Presentatie: Sven Kockelmann en Fidan Ekiz (WNL)

This week, Brooke talks to Christo Grozev, lead Russia investigator with Bellingcat, about how he uncovered the real identity of a Russian "sleeper" agent who went by the name Maria Adela. Grozev tells Brooke about how rarely these kinds of spies are discovered, what made "Maria Adela" an unlikely spy and what kind of information she could have gathered on NATO.

Late last month, investigative journalists at Bellingcat and partner organizations published a story exposing the identity of a Russian spy named Maria Adela Kuhfeldt Rivera, who over the course of 10 years had charmed her way into the social circles of NATO members in Naples. Lawfare managing editor Tyler McBrien sat down with Christo Grozev, Bellingcat's lead Russia investigator, who walked us through this stranger-than-fiction spy thriller. They discussed how Maria Adela found herself courting NATO officers in Italy, how Bellingcat's team exposed the truth, often at great personal risk to themselves, and how this story can help us understand the state of Russian tradecraft. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/lawfare. Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information.

On this week's show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week's security news, including: The Twilio breach was actually a big deal How a Belarusian Cyber Partisans hack burned a GRU illegal Who wants 25m hashed passwords from Russia? An NFT we can get behind How attackers are using game anti-cheat drivers to defeat EDR Much, much more This week's sponsor interview is with Mike Benjamin, the VP of security research at Fastly. He pops in to argue that your red team needs to actually consider how your apps will cope with bot-driven attacks. Links to everything that we discussed are below and you can follow Patrick or Adam on Twitter if that's your thing. Show notes Why the Twilio Breach Cuts So Deep | WIRED Phishers who hit Twilio and Cloudflare stole 10k credentials from 136 others | Ars Technica The number of companies caught up in recent hacks keeps growing | Ars Technica How 1-Time Passcodes Became a Corporate Liability – Krebs on Security (1) Christo Grozev on Twitter: "We first noticed her thanks to a super useful database shared with us by @cpartisans: the border crossing records of Belarus. We knew the passport ranges of GRU and FSB spies, so we decided to search in that data-set by partial matches, leaving the last 3 digits out as wildcards." / Twitter (1) Belarusian Cyber-Partisans on Twitter: "

On this week's show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week's security news, including: The Twilio breach was actually a big deal How a Belarusian Cyber Partisans hack burned a GRU illegal Who wants 25m hashed passwords from Russia? An NFT we can get behind How attackers are using game anti-cheat drivers to defeat EDR Much, much more This week's sponsor interview is with Mike Benjamin, the VP of security research at Fastly. He pops in to argue that your red team needs to actually consider how your apps will cope with bot-driven attacks. Links to everything that we discussed are below and you can follow Patrick or Adam on Twitter if that's your thing. Show notes Why the Twilio Breach Cuts So Deep | WIRED Phishers who hit Twilio and Cloudflare stole 10k credentials from 136 others | Ars Technica The number of companies caught up in recent hacks keeps growing | Ars Technica How 1-Time Passcodes Became a Corporate Liability – Krebs on Security (1) Christo Grozev on Twitter: "We first noticed her thanks to a super useful database shared with us by @cpartisans: the border crossing records of Belarus. We knew the passport ranges of GRU and FSB spies, so we decided to search in that data-set by partial matches, leaving the last 3 digits out as wildcards." / Twitter (1) Belarusian Cyber-Partisans on Twitter: "

Vanessa Kirby gets Christo Grozev, a modern Sherlock Holmes, to share the secrets of how he solved one of the most notorious assassination attempts of the 21st century - the poisoning of retired Russian double-agent Sergei Skripal, hospitalised by a mysterious nerve agent on British soil. Would YOU have the skills to do the same? From SPYSCAPE, the global HQ of secrets and skills. A Cup And Nuzzle production. Series producer: Gemma Newby. Produced by Tim Mansel. Music by Nick Ryan.

When Alexei Navalny, the Russian opposition leader and anti-corruption activist, was poisoned in 2020, he was relocated to Germany to recover. While he was there, he teamed up with a Bulgarian data-journalist named Christo Grozev, who claimed he had figured out who was behind the assassination attempt. Together, using advanced prank call technology, they managed to get an admission of guilt from a member of the team tasked with poisoning Navalny. There to capture it all was Canadian documentarian Daniel Roher. The resulting film, Navalny, is an up-close look at Navalny's final months as a free man. Today on Front Burner, a conversation with Roher on what it was like to document Russia's most famous political opposition leader as he recovered from an assassination attempt and made the decision to return to the country he wants to lead.

Op 9 mei viert Rusland de overwinning op Nazi-Duitsland in 1945. Voert President Poetin de druk verder op met het uitroepen van de oorlog in Oekraïne en een volledige mobilisatie? In Buitenhof NRC-journalist en oud-correspondent Michel Krielaars over de volgende fase in de oorlog. De Bulgaarse onderzoeksjournalist Christo Grozev staat aan het hoofd van de Ruslandonthullingen bij onderzoekscollectief Bellingcat. Een gesprek over het het opsporen en documenteren van oorlogsmisdaden in Oekraïne. Oud-minister en hoogleraar Ernst Hirsch Ballin over de staat van de democratie in Nederland en de ondermijning van het internationale rechtsstelsel. Volgens filosoof en auteur Eva Rovers is de politiek te veel met zichzelf bezig. Helpt het invoeren burgerberaden om het vertrouwen in de democratie te herstellen? Het recht op abortus lijkt in gevaar in de VS, maar dichter bij huis in Polen en Hongarije is dit recht al afgeschaft. Hoe is het in Nederland gesteld met dit recht? Hierover GroenLinks-Tweede Kamerlid Corinne Ellemeet. En: museumdirecteur Suzanne Swarts over kunst in tijden van oorlog. Presentatie: Pieter Jan Hagens Wil je meer weten over de gasten in deze uitzending? Of wil je deze aflevering toch liever bekijken? Kijk op onze website: https://bit.ly/buitenhof-8-mei-2022

In deze podcast hoor je Michel Krielaars, oud-correspondent in Moskou en NRC-journalist en Bellincatonderzoeker Christo Grozev. 9 mei is de Dag van de Overwinning in Rusland. Een belangrijke dag met grote symbolische waarde. Welke lading heeft deze dag, gaat Poetin een algehele mobilisatie afkondigen? En hoe stevig zit hij eigenlijk in het zadel? De Bulgaarse onderzoeksjournalist Christo Grozev staat aan het hoofd van de Ruslandonthullingen bij onderzoekscollectief Bellingcat. Een gesprek over het het opsporen en documenteren van oorlogsmisdaden in Oekraïne. Lees meer over de gasten in deze podcast via onze site. Daar kan je de gesprekken ook bekijken. https://bit.ly/buitenhof-8-mei-2022

In deze podcast hoor je Michel Krielaars, oud-correspondent in Moskou en NRC-journalist en Bellincatonderzoeker Christo Grozev. 9 mei is de Dag van de Overwinning in Rusland. Een belangrijke dag met grote symbolische waarde. Welke lading heeft deze dag, gaat Poetin een algehele mobilisatie afkondigen? En hoe stevig zit hij eigenlijk in het zadel? De Bulgaarse onderzoeksjournalist Christo Grozev staat aan het hoofd van de Ruslandonthullingen bij onderzoekscollectief Bellingcat. Een gesprek over het het opsporen en documenteren van oorlogsmisdaden in Oekraïne. Lees meer over de gasten in deze podcast via onze site. Daar kan je de gesprekken ook bekijken. https://bit.ly/buitenhof-8-mei-2022

Op 9 mei viert Rusland de overwinning op Nazi-Duitsland in 1945. Voert President Poetin de druk verder op met het uitroepen van de oorlog in Oekraïne en een volledige mobilisatie? In Buitenhof NRC-journalist en oud-correspondent Michel Krielaars over de volgende fase in de oorlog. De Bulgaarse onderzoeksjournalist Christo Grozev staat aan het hoofd van de Ruslandonthullingen bij onderzoekscollectief Bellingcat. Een gesprek over het het opsporen en documenteren van oorlogsmisdaden in Oekraïne. Oud-minister en hoogleraar Ernst Hirsch Ballin over de staat van de democratie in Nederland en de ondermijning van het internationale rechtsstelsel. Volgens filosoof en auteur Eva Rovers is de politiek te veel met zichzelf bezig. Helpt het invoeren burgerberaden om het vertrouwen in de democratie te herstellen? Het recht op abortus lijkt in gevaar in de VS, maar dichter bij huis in Polen en Hongarije is dit recht al afgeschaft. Hoe is het in Nederland gesteld met dit recht? Hierover GroenLinks-Tweede Kamerlid Corinne Ellemeet. En: museumdirecteur Suzanne Swarts over kunst in tijden van oorlog. Presentatie: Pieter Jan Hagens Wil je meer weten over de gasten in deze uitzending? Of wil je deze aflevering toch liever bekijken? Kijk op onze website: https://bit.ly/buitenhof-8-mei-2022

Canadian documentary film director Daniel Roher is known for his 2019 film Once Were Brothers: Robbie Robertson and the Band, which features the elite of rock and roll, including Springsteen and Clapton. Bulgarian investigative journalist Christov Grozev is the lead Russia investigator with Bellingcat, an open-source journalism group. The two collaborated on the documentary “Navalny,” which was directed by Roher and has received widespread acclaim from critics and moviegoers. The gripping real-life thriller took home the Festival Favorite and U.S. Documentary Audience Awards at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival. “Navanly” follows Russian opposition leader and outspoken Putin critic Alexei Navany in the wake of his 2020 poisoning as he works to uncover those responsible for the assassination attempt.  Roher and Grozev spoke with Alec about Navalny's potential path to the presidency, why poison is the Kremlin's weapon of choice and what might be next for Putin.   “Navalny” is currently in theaters worldwide and will premiere on CNN TV in North America on April 24th.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The investigative group Bellingcat has won awards and international recognition for its work exposing misdeeds of authoritarian governments. We talk with Bellingcat's executive director, Christo Grozev, about the group's focus on Russian disinformation and alleged war crimes in Ukraine. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Despite Ukraine's efforts to downplay the threat, hybrid warfare between Russia and the west has already begun. Christo Grozev is the lead Russia investigator with Bellingcat, focusing on security threats, extraterritorial clandestine operations, and the weaponization of information. On this week's Kicker, he and Kyle Pope, editor and publisher of CJR, discuss how the press should cover a conflict that will put information warfare at the forefront.

Save Meduza!https://support.meduza.io/enOn this week's show, The Naked Pravda looks back at some of the journalism and scholarly work in 2021 that made significant contributions to our knowledge about Russia. These nine articles feature incredible fieldwork, insights into how power works in Russia, and compelling stories that you might have missed over the year. Meduza spoke to the authors of three of these articles — Julia Ioffe, Pjotr Sauer, and Maria Danilova — and we asked historian Sean Guillory of The SRB Podcast for his five favorite scholarly books on Russia and the Soviet Union released in 2021. Timestamps for this week's episode: (3:15) “A Black Communist's Disappearance in Stalin's Russia: What Happened to Lovett Fort-Whiteman, the Only Known African American to Die in the Gulag?” by Joshua Yaffa (The New Yorker) (6:25) “Climate Change Is Melting Russia's Permafrost — and Challenging Its Oil Economy” by Ann Simmons and Georgi Kantchev (The Wall Street Journal) (8:58) “On a Pacific Island, Russia Tests Its Battle Plan for Climate Change” by Anton Troianovski (The New York Times) (11:51) “The Great Russian Oil Heist: Criminals, Lawmen, and the Quest for Liquid Loot” by Sergei Khazov-Cassia (RFE/RL) (15:47) “Inside Wagnergate: Ukraine's Brazen Sting Operation to Snare Russian Mercenaries” by Christo Grozev, with contributions from Aric Toler, Pieter van Huis, and Yordan Tsalov (Bellingcat) (21:48) “Lyubov Sobol's Hope for Russia” by Masha Gessen (The New Yorker) (28:05) Meduza speaks to Julia Ioffe about her story, “‘These Bastards Will Never See Our Tears': How Yulia Navalnaya Became Russia's Real First Lady” (Vanity Fair) (45:22) Meduza talks to Pjotr Sauer about his investigation, “A Royal Mark Up: How an Emirati Sheikh Resells Millions of Russian Vaccines to the Developing World,” coauthored with Jake Cordell and Felix Light (The Moscow Times) (54:07) Meduza asks Maria Danilova about her report, “Russia Has an Opioid Crisis Too — One of Untreated Pain” (Vice) (1:04:11) Sean Guillory discusses “Cold War Correspondents: Soviet and American Reporters on the Ideological Frontlines” by Dina Fainberg (1:10:09) Sean talks about “Utopia's Discontents: Russian Émigrés and the Quest for Freedom, 1830s-1930s” by Faith Hillis (1:14:05) Sean recommends “Navalny: Putin's Nemesis, Russia's Future?” by Jan Matti Dollbaum, Morvan Lallouet, and Ben Noble. (1:18:32) Sean recalls why he loved “Flowers Through Concrete: Explorations in Soviet Hippieland” by Juliane Fürst (1:22:05) Sean ends his list with “The Things of Life: Materiality in Late Soviet Russia” by Alexey Golubev (1:24:03) Closing remarks and a reminder to contribute to Meduza if you're not already doing so! “The Naked Pravda” comes out on Saturdays (or sometimes Fridays). Catch every new episode by subscribing at Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, or other platforms. If you have a question or comment about the show, please write to Kevin Rothrock at kevin@meduza.io with the subject line: “The Naked Pravda.”

Russia's arrest and imprisonment of opposition leader Alexey Navalny is drawing condemnation and economic sanctions from the United States and the European Union. Plugged In examines Navalny's situation and the future of U.S.-Russian relations under the Biden administration with the director of the Wilson Center's Kennan Institute Matthew Rojansky and Christo Grozev, lead investigator for Bellingcat. Airdate: March 17, 2021.

Christo Grozev, the Bellingcat journalist who unmasked Alexey Navalny's hit squad, explains how he did it, and what it says about Putin's security state.

Save Meduza!https://support.meduza.io/enThe Russian Presidential Affairs Department's Scientific Research Computing Center (GRCC) develops systems to monitor and deanonymize social-media users, and it sells these systems to government and private clients alike. Using the company's services, insurance companies can root out dishonest employees, and security-guard companies can recruit new staff. Other GRCC programs allow the police to hunt down “extremists” online. In a special report published in late September, Meduza learned that these computing systems collect information on Russians not just from open sources, but also from leaked databases that are sold illegally on the black market.  To find out more about Russia's database black market and how this information is being used, “The Naked Pravda” spoke to Meduza special correspondent Liliya Yapparova and Christo Grozev and Aric Toler, two top researchers at the investigative journalism website Bellingcat. In this episode: (2:01) Liliya Yapparova explains how she first learned about GRCC and its controversial products. (5:46) Kevin and Liliya discuss the ethics of using illegal databases to hunt down criminals, and the tradeoffs tech consumers accept when embracing news services. (9:15) Christo Grozev reviews Bellingcat's history and how he came to the group. (11:39) Aric Toler describes “digital stalking” and talks about Bellingcat's mid-October report about one of the alleged Skripal poisoners attending the family wedding of a Russian military intelligence commander. (21:31) Aric explains why Bellingcat isn't like Wikileaks. (23:56) Christo talks about when Bellingcat thinks it's okay to use leaked databases. (30:29) Liliya and Christo argue that Russia's data-leak problem can't be fixed anytime soon. “The Naked Pravda” comes out on Fridays. Catch every new episode by subscribing at Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, or other platforms. If you have a question or comment about the show, please write to Kevin Rothrock at kevin@meduza.io with the subject line: “The Naked Pravda.”