Investigations
Trust Betrayed: The Moscow Armored Truck Heist
A trusted employee helped turn a routine cash-transfer run into a deadly Moscow robbery. The investigation that followed exposed a conspiracy built on…
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Investigations
The Five-Year Hunt for Orenburg’s Alleged Contract-Killing Boss
A suspected criminal organization in Orenburg was linked by investigators to a series of killings spanning more than a decade. The alleged leader…
Investigations
The Belgrade Investigation: Digital Evidence and a Balkan Crime Network
A hidden room, a coded-phone network, and a trail of alleged murders exposed how Veljko Belivuk’s organization operated—and why its own digital records…
Investigations
Galina Starovoitova: The Unfinished Investigation into a Political Assassination
The 1998 assassination of Galina Starovoitova exposed the dangerous overlap of organized crime, local politics, and Russia’s security establishment. The gunmen were convicted,…
Investigations
The Unanswered Questions Behind the Dolgoprudny Police Post Massacre
Four traffic police officers were shot dead at a Moscow-area checkpoint in 1997, yet investigators found no sign of a firefight. The case…
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