How Bellingcat became Russia’s ‘biggest nightmare’
Digital investigators from the Bellingcat group have spent eight years exposing the lies of the powerful and gathering evidence of their crimes – work that has a grave human cost,… Read more »
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Ukraine’s resilient civil society bridging the humanitarian gap
On April 5, at lunchtime, 43-year-old Eliot Higgins, founder of the independent Bellingcat group of online investigators, was in the middle of “geolocating” an appalling video of Russian atrocities… Read more »
Murdered Putin rival Nemtsov was tailed by FSB agent
Boris Nemtsov, a former opposition leader and critic of Vladimir Putin, was followed by an FSB agent linked to an assassination squad for almost a year before he was shot… Read more »
‘On the precipice of the misinformation age’: Civil society responds
The feats of Bellingcat – the ‘people’s intelligence agency’ – are remarkable, the FT’s Henry Mance writes: They proved that Syria’s regime used chemical weapons against its citizens. They unmasked the… Read more »
Putin’s playbook: Crackdown on civil society intensifies
Russian President Vladimir Putin denied the government’s involvement in the poisoning of opposition leader Alexey Navalny, saying Russian authorities would have “finished the job” had they been involved. Earlier this… Read more »