Ilya Lozovsky

Apparent Affiliate of Danish Company Helps Russians Export Grain From Occupied Ukraine Russian companies are shipping pillaged grain out of occupied Ukrainian ports. The apparent affiliate of a major Danish shipping inspection company, Baltic Control, is being paid to assist.

Proud to have worked on this investigation, just shortlisted for @gijn.org's 2026 Sigma Awards.

It details how an affiliate of a Danish company appears to have taken part in Russia’s pillaging of stolen Ukrainian grain from two occupied ports on the Sea of Azov.
www.occrp.org/en/investiga...

“I left the view of Jungfrau with deep regret: eternal snow, etched as it seemed against eternal sunshine, and the Silberhorn sharp against dark blue: the Silvertine (Celebdil) of my dreams.”

J.R.R. Tolkien

I’ve dreamed of this for years

CNN's @brianstelter.bsky.social's ReliableSources newsletter, a staple for media industry news, included OCCRP's @ichbinilya.bsky.social latest story about the grimmest year for Ukraine and its investigative journalists: www.occrp.org/en/feature/r...

Report and Survive: Ukraine’s Young Journalists Investigate Through the War’s Most Brutal Winter Russia’s attacks on energy infrastructure, waged during the coldest winter in memory, have pushed Ukrainians to their limits. But in freezing offices and darkened apartments, a new generation of inves...

Today Ukraine entered its fifth year of war.

I wrote about how the country's young investigative journalists, freezing and exhausted, are still going — and even attracting a new generation of talent. www.occrp.org/en/feature/r...

Report and Survive: Ukraine’s Young Journalists Investigate Through the War’s Most Brutal Winter Russia’s attacks on energy infrastructure, waged during the coldest winter in memory, have pushed Ukrainians to their limits. But in freezing offices and darkened apartments, a new generation of inves...

Today Ukraine entered its fifth year of war.

I wrote about how the country's young investigative journalists, freezing and exhausted, are still going — and even attracting a new generation of talent. www.occrp.org/en/feature/r...

some birds are funny when they talk

soon… 🥹

🤣

Why would you think I would expect that?

Putin’s not really an “oligarch” and I didn’t claim he has no assets in the West, I said I’ve never seen any documentation of any. It’s true his daughters have popped up in Europe and they’re clearly not poor but I haven’t seen any reports of large assets of theirs abroad. Unless I missed something!

For Putin he is a random American, yes. An obviously unreliable man who has close, frequent associations with high-profile, powerful people is the last person Putin would want controlling his money.

That's disappointing, I was engaging politely and in good faith.

I never claimed anything with confidence; I claimed the opposite — the assets we KNOW about are in Russia, but we don't know what else may or may not be out there.

Putin and the Proxies A Novaya Gazeta and OCCRP investigation looks into the wealth surrounding Russian President Vladimir Putin.When it comes to distribution of wealth, Russia is one of the world’s most unequal major coun...

There was also this huge earlier project; I'm sure much of this is completely out of date but it does contain a lot of the historical record www.occrp.org/en/project/p...

Mysterious Group of Companies Tied to Bank Rossiya Unites Billions of Dollars in Assets Connected to Vladimir Putin An email domain not visible to the public — LLCInvest.ru — helped reporters uncover a group of interconnected companies that hold palaces, resorts, yachts, jets, and bank accounts full of cash.

His name is never on anything so you kind of have to do it based on other ties, and it's hard to summarize except by saying "linked" or "connected". But here's the full investigation www.occrp.org/en/project/r...

Now is it plausible Putin has stashed money offshore somewhere, in case of a rainy day? Of course. But I don't think we know about it, and I certainly think it would be run by people he has close access to, not some random dissolute American.

We've also done several investigations of Putin-linked assets and they're always in Russia, centered around Bank Rossiya.

I don't find it plausible at all. I don't think Putin would ever trust his money to an American citizen he can't control. The only documented Putin wealth stories that had any foreign connection were always around Roldugin, and it was offshore vehicles, not really assets "in the West."

I regret to inform you that Punch the monkey is in the Epstein files

this is an enormous claim by a single anonymous source, I’m guessing that’s why People magazine is the one running with it

this is the way

This author had “participate in the discourse” as a higher-priority mission than doing good journalism.

The way this is written is incredibly internet-brained. I can't imagine an activist in any other country being profiled like this, with more than half-an-eye to what they post online.

Made in the EU, Dropped on Kyiv: How European Parts Are Enabling Russia’s Winter Drone War The workhorse of Russia’s drone fleet — responsible for crippling Ukraine's energy grid and triggering a humanitarian crisis — is built with EU technology. Despite tightening sanctions, parts for the ...

Our latest. Infuriating. www.occrp.org/en/investiga...

Liberalism and the search for meaning The worst option except for all the others

There is a subset of people who will be extremely triggered by this specific combination of words, but @mattyglesias.bsky.social has written one of the best essays on the value of liberalism I've ever read.

www.slowboring.com/p/liberalism...

I've increasingly come to view cynicism as the seedbed of totalitarianism, both because it can paralyze the opposition and because it implicitly validates the might-makes-right ethic of the authoritarian.

Throatbane

QERMİT (🇹🇷🐸)

and the sequel trilogy is blorp

That's how it is on this bitch of an earth.