A champion like no other: The curious life of a Unit 29155 operative Since the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Russia’s military Intelligence, the GRU, has dramatically stepped up its activities across Europe — from assassinations and acts of sabotage...

Read our latest crazy story on the spy who was so successful at pretending he's someone else that the GRU "killed off" his real persona and stranded him with the fake one. From a fake environmental expert to a purveyor of fake news:
theins.press/en/inv/286477

More than a year's worth of investigation into the very Russian life of ex-Wirecard COO, and wannabe Russian super-spy Jan Marsalek: in English: theins.ru/en/inv/284980

A dozen knives in the back of the Islamic revolution: Secret FSB documents confirm Iran and Russia are waging a spy war against each other The strikes on Iran by Israel and the U.S. provoked a critical but very restrained response from the Kremlin. On June 23, Vladimir Putin said the attack was “unjustifiable and inexcusable,” but his cr...

❗A dozen knives in the back of the Islamic revolution: Secret FSB documents confirm Iran and Russia are waging a spy war against each other

A new investigation by @christogrozev.bsky.social and
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Probably can't be a coincidence, yes.

Yes, but all the false evidence linking him to Russian passwords/emails/persons are just detracting from your other finds. So just make sure you're clear that that is a mistake. Sergio.gor@gmail.com has no connection whatsoever to those leaked passwords. It's an error that sends into a rabbit hole.

Only part of this is true. Please be careful to not spread false (while well-intentioned) information as it hurts real investigations in the future. The Russian with the "same password" is a totally random person who happened to use a very similar Gmail username. That password is unrelated to Gor.

YouTube video by The Christo Files The Plot to Kidnap and Assassinate Me

This from @christogrozev.bsky.social is worth a watch

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Hidden Bear: The GRU hackers of Russia’s most notorious kill squad Russian GRU Unit 29155 is best known for its long list of murder and sabotage ops, which include the Salisbury poisonings in England, arms depot explosions in Czechia, and an attempted coup d’etat in ...

How the GRU's Unit 29155 hacking department obsessed over @bellingcat.com, created the biolabs conspiracy and left their targeting server unprotected....among other crazy findings in this latest investigation: theins.press/en/inv/281731

Or as my colleague posited, unfortunately sarcastically: Wow, of she's a US asset, the Americans are going places..

So the question is: did Witkoff really think she was sent by the US embassy? Or did, maybe worse, the UA embassy in Moscow endorse her as a "neutral" interpreter for a negotiation where lives of hundreds of thousands of people - plus the security of half the world - were at stake?

Leaked social insurance records show that in addition to being employed by the MFA, she is also working for the holding company of RT, the Kremlin's propaganda mouthpiece.

Her name is Natalia Koshkina, born 1991. Currently she works as second secretary of the Russian MFA's linguistics department..but a few years ago she worked as third secretary of the Russian mission to NATO in Brussels.. almost certainly not am interpreter job.

More worryingly, she's also apparently the interpreter for the head of Russia's foreign intelligence agency, Naryshkin.

She apparently is the government appointed interpreter for key Russian political figures, such as Putin, Lavrov and Medvedev.

Unfortunately, the video only shows a glimpse of her side profile. Fortunately, today's AI face search tools are happy with that breadcrumb of visual information.

So what embassy is the interpreter from? Obviously there's no Russian embassy in Moscow (unless Witkoff thinks so), so a logical conclusion is that he was assured she was, hm, sent by or approved by the US embassy? Anyway, let's look at who she is.

Here's the video released by the Kremlin. It clearly shows Witkoff pointing at the young woman and asking "Interpreter?", to which Putin & Co say "yes". Following that, cryptically Witkoff asks "from Embassy?", to which he again gets a confirmation.

Trump envoy relied on Kremlin interpreter in meetings with Putin to end war in Ukraine Using the Kremlin’s interpreter was “a very bad idea” that put Witkoff “at a real disadvantage,” Michael McFaul, a former U.S. ambassador to Russia, told NBC News.

NBC reports that, shockingly, during his latest Moscow pilgrimage Witkoff met with Putin and his two negotiators alone and without his own interpreter, relying - in breach of protocol - on a locally present one www.nbcnews.com/world/russia.... However, this seems half the problem (1/n)

Unmasking MrDeepFakes: Canadian Pharmacist Linked to World’s Most Notorious Deepfake Porn Site - bellingcat Double life: open source investigation reveals Canadian hospital pharmacist's links to MrDeepFakes, the most notorious deepfake porn website in the world.

Exclusive: Bellingcat in partnership with @tjekdet.dk , @politiken.dk and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) can reveal the identity of a key administrator behind MrDeepFakes, one of the world’s largest providers of non-consensual deepfake pornography. www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/05...

YouTube video by The Christo Files Unit 29155 | Episode 2: Uncovering the Poisoning of Emilian Gebrev

Check out Episode 2 of TheChristoFiles series on GRU's black ops unit 29155.
"Arugula with a side of Novichok" - the poisoning of Emilian Gebrev. Just out.
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YouTube video by The Christo Files Unit 29155 | Episode 1: The Salisbury Poisonings - Part 1

How we discovered the GRU team behind the Novichok poisonings in Salisbury. A peek under the hood in the latest episode from TheChristoFiles youtu.be/z55R5PODC60?...

Trump tried to extort Zelenskyy and was impeached – now he may succeed The Ukrainian president is expected at the White House on Friday to sign a multimillion-dollar minerals deal with echoes of a notorious 2019 phone call

Trump tried to extort Zelenskyy and was impeached – now he may succeed
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Not allowed to till the end of court trial.

Just spoke at the USC inaugural Open Source Journalism Conference about the investigation into the Berlin bicycle assassin - and now there's a whole video that explains how the investigation was done. Check it out: youtu.be/Kl9aaCDSOzs

More interestingly, Louvrier` team ominously plotted to silence me using "the famous robots, once unleashed". In retrospect, I wonder if this was the troll farm(s) that were deployed by Russian Intel by both Prigozhin and Malofeev.

Malofeev’s JV Partner Acquring Strategic Bulgarian Assets: A Risk Analysis The following is an excerpt from a risk report relating to the intended acquisition by Pierre Michel Louvrier of key  Bulgarian’s strategic telecommunications and defense industry assets. Ris…

I never thought that Pierre Louvrier, about whose deep connections to Russian oligarchs with GRU links I wrote 10 years ago (and who bluffed he would sue me), would one day pop up in US confirmation hearings. cgrozev.wordpress.com/2015/03/26/m...

You have definitely seen the film?

Yes

Trut has no expiration date. The Stringer himself.