Ilya Lozovsky

Jan 12, 2025 | mdpi.com | Ilya Lozovsky |Ivan Varentsov |Devesh Walia

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Oct 24, 2024 | occrp.org | Ilya Lozovsky |Kelly Bloss

The researchers, Eto Buziashvili and Sopo Gelava, both work with the Digital Forensic Research Lab, an initiative by the U.S.-based Atlantic Council think tank to expose online disinformation. Russian influence in Georgia has become a hot-button topic in the run-up to Saturday’s elections. Activists, experts, and opposition politicians accuse the ruling Georgian Dream party of adopting authoritarian policies that mirror those in Russia.

Oct 17, 2024 | occrp.org | Ilya Lozovsky

The vote is a sore point for Russia, and OCCRP and its local partner CU CENS reported earlier this week on efforts from Moscow to curry favor among Moldovans, and even pay them to cast ballots against EU membership. In a press conference today in the capital of Chisinau, police and prosecutors said a group of young pro-Russian Moldovans had been “trained by foreign instructors” connected to the former Wagner paramilitary group at “guerilla camps” in Serbia, as well as Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Apr 7, 2024 | infolibre.es | Ilya Lozovsky

Los "tambores de guerra" en la UE pillan al movimiento pacifista dividido y debilitado Ver más Cuando se lo llevaron para interrogarlo, los soldados rusos le dijeron a Viktor Soldatov que pronto le permitirían volver a casa. Fue liberado nueve meses después y sólo tras soportar un trato que lo llevó a intentar suicidarse en su celda. "Me tiraron sobre una mesa", recuerda. "Cuatro de ellos me sujetaban: dos por los brazos, dos por las piernas.

Apr 2, 2024 | occrp.org | Ilya Lozovsky

Tweet this Share this on Facebook DONATE When they took him in for interrogation, the Russian soldiers told Viktor Soldatov he would soon be allowed to return home. He was released nine months later, having endured treatment that drove him to attempt suicide in his cell. “They threw me on the table, spread me apart,” he recalls. “Four of them held me — two by my arms, two by my legs. They pulled my shorts off and started prodding my buttocks with, I don’t know, a rubber truncheon or something.