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Sergei Ezhov
Sergei Ezhov

Investigative reporter, The Insider

The drinking buddy: Dmitry Medvedev’s “wallet” profits from Oreshnik missile production while making wine in Italy

Theft, mistresses, and U.S. passports: The double lives of the Russian MPs building a “digital GULAG” while preaching “traditional values”

Privatization for hire: Russia’s state property chief is on the payroll of Putin pal Arkady Rotenberg

Millionaire vs. buskers: Chief of St. Petersburg Police cracking down on street musicians owns $6.2 million worth of real estate

The price of loyalty: Kremlin propaganda power couple Skabeeva and Popov have seen their incomes soar amid Russia’s invasion of Ukraine

Shoigu’s daughter, a submarine shipyard, and two criminal oligarchs: Meet the Russian business partners of Estonian entrepreneurs

Family values: FSB chief’s nephew tied to corrupt businessmen including Putin’s old judo partners

The Russian Duma’s “Bachelor Club”: Meet 39 MPs whose secret partners own their undisclosed wealth

Sunbathing with the enemy: Meet the Kremlin propagandists who vacation in Europe despite demonizing the West on air

Shell company: Russian billionaire Oleg Deripaska’s businesses are cashing in on the war in Ukraine — and he’s trying to hide it

Agri-tycoon vs. Medvedev’s “wallet”: Billionaire Moshkovich arrested in wake of conflict with rival oligarch’s family

Ministers and oligarchs: The billionaires with ties to Russia’s government

“I always fly to Europe on free weekends”: Russian propaganda talk show producer avoids sanctions while buying property in Moscow and the EU

The regime's minority stakeholders: Key Putin oligarchs still profiting from trade with Europe, despite sanctions

Hawks on boats: Russia's ex-president Dmitry Medvedev buys new UK-built yacht and profits from livestock and “patriotic” video games

Stamp them through: Russian oligarchs, FSB generals, religious figures, and children of the elite travel abroad under diplomatic cover

Vaulted interests: Russian Ministry of Defense contractor supplies safes to the Lithuanian army

Proxy billionaire: Ties with some of Putin’s oldest allies propel mystery businessman onto Russia’s Forbes list

“Canned goods” from Riga: Russia’s elites, oligarchs, and military contractors are quietly dodging sanctions in Latvia

Soaring above sanctions: Miller, Timchenko, Deripaska, Rotenberg, and other Russian oligarchs buy parts for their private jets in the West

Safe houses: FSB counterintelligence chief behind arrest of Evan Gershkovich is a secret billionaire rentier

Microloans and mega-fraud: notorious Russian swindler’s family living in the West binds thousands of Russians in debt

Same as the old boss: New deputy head of Russia’s Defense Ministry Oleg Savelyev conceals his wife — and her luxury properties

The “Immortal Dreamer”: Putin’s family still buys its yachts and spare parts for private jets in the West, despite sanctions

Death metal: Russian Defense Ministry contractor close to Putin buys Maltese passport and French villa with money from weapons disposal

Behind enemy lines: The French Riviera still welcomes Russian politicians and oligarchs

The Maltese Order of Contractors: How executives tied to Russian state-owned companies acquire EU passports

The Kremlin's slush fund in Vienna: How Putin's pocket company Sibur operates in Europe, earning profits from exports

Tipsy Telegram: Medvedev's scandalous posts coincide with wine deliveries from Italy

Bolshevik in a mansion: A former Russian propaganda executive is still living freely in Spain

Our man in Brussels: The Insider has unmasked the GRU officer helping the Kremlin evade sanctions from his base in the heart of Europe

Palme d’Oil: Gazprom Neft CEO avoids sanctions, buys mansion in French Riviera

Sanction-dodging armor: Which Western countries are helping Russia make Armata and Proryv tanks

Killjoy alert: Europe keeps supplying equipment and components to Russian missile manufacturers

Messieurs Kingpin: Makhmudov and Bokarev, Russian oligarchs with gang ties and Ukraine war profits, buy villas in France

Killer cereal: Russian intelligence chief sells groats to NATO despite war

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