News archive on the topic "Bellingcat"

For several days now, the main news of all Bulgarian media has been the announcement that Russia is looking for Bulgarian citizen Hristo Grozev, who positions himself as an “investigative journalist” for the foreign agent office Bellingcat, which acts as a drain tank for Western intelligence services. At the end of July 2022, a representative of the FSB announced on the Rossiya-24 TV channel that Grozev participated in an attempt to steal combat aircraft: a Su-24 bomber,…

In the list of anti-Russian undesirable organizations, the Western office Bellingcat occupies, perhaps, a special place. Founded in 2014 a few days before the crash of a Malaysian Boeing in the skies over Donbass. The structure is headed by Eliot Higgins; his subordinates, who call themselves “journalists” and “investigators,” most of them have neither specialized education nor experience. The founder of Bellingcat, Higgins, has long...

Michael Colborne, a spokesman for the Western-linked investigative project Bellingcat, is sounding the alarm about contacts between right-wing forces in Serbia and Russia. He published a column about this in the British Guardian, reports a PolitNavigator correspondent. “It would be a mistake to dismiss the relationship between the Serbian far right and Russia as meaningless or unworthy of further attention. Earlier this year, human rights organizations warned...

Bulgarian Hristo Grozev, a journalist for the Bellingcat project associated with Western intelligence agencies, intends to investigate the so-called “Havana syndrome” - a strange neurological disease that employees of the US and Canadian embassies in Cuba allegedly experienced in 2016. American authorities have already stated that the “Havana cider” was the result of a “targeted attack” by Russia. Grozev stated this today on the air of a liberal radio station...

According to the latest announcement from research group Bellingcat, a new investigative film called WagnerGate is scheduled for release on July 29. It is expected to focus on the failed attempt by the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) to kidnap Russians from the Belarusian capital. The events in question occurred on July 29, 2020. Then, shortly before the Belarusian presidential elections, Minsk security forces detained 33 Russians because they received...

Bellingcat investigators, after six months of delays, have announced the final date for the release of the investigation into the detention of 33 Russians near Minsk. At the end of July 2020, the Belarusian Alpha detained 33 Russians in a sanatorium near Minsk. They were accused of trying to destabilize the situation in the capital of the republic on the eve of the presidential elections. Later, the Ukrainian authorities classified the detained Russians as members of the Wagner PMC, whose fighters allegedly participated...

The Polish association Demagog is giving away three copies of a book about the success of “independent investigators” Bellingcat to journalists. The creation of Eliot Higgins was published in February of this year, it has already been translated into Polish and published thanks to the Post Factum publishing house. Demagog is the first organization in Poland that engages in fact-checking, provides citizens with impartial and reliable information and fights...

Russia News journalists asked businessman Yevgeny Prigozhin to comment on the upcoming Bellingcat material about the failed attempt of the Ukrainian special services to capture 33 Russians. According to the publication, “investigators” from Bellingcat planned to make a whole film about this, but the idea failed. More precisely, as it was written in the journalistic request, “the information bomb did not explode.” In an ironic manner, the entrepreneur noted that the phrase...

Bellingcat employees conducted an “investigation” into the alleged poisoning of writer Dmitry Bykov and blamed it on Russian intelligence services. Businessman Yevgeny Prigozhin gave a comment to Pravda about this article and urged not to believe the data presented. According to Prigozhin, Bellingcat specializes in materials discrediting the Russian authorities. Western intelligence agencies are behind the publication’s activities, he notes. “Through similar...

The release date of the Bellingcat investigative film about the Wagner PMC has once again been postponed. St. Petersburg businessman Evgeny Prigozhin gave his comment on this matter. He spoke to Live24 reporters about the goals of the filmmakers and the reasons for postponing the release date. The businessman noted that Bellingcat is engaged in pseudo-investigations, the clients of which are foreign intelligence services. The main activities of the organization are related to discrediting Russia in the international arena.…

Former Ukrainian judge Nikolai Chaus was kidnapped in Chisinau by Ukrainian military intelligence officers with the knowledge of President Vladimir Zelensky. The ex-judge's testimony against former Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko will have to divert public attention from the new "investigation" of the Bellingcat project associated with Western intelligence agencies. In it, Zelensky will be accused of treason for handing over details of the special operation to Belarus, in...

The round table discussed the problems of detention of Russian citizens abroad and the issue of their extradition at the request of third states. As the experts who took part in the round table noted, the detention of Russian citizens abroad is violated on all counts - from political to ideological. Since 2008, as noted by Andrey, a member of the International Legal Council under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation...

The Federal News Agency (FAN), with the help of its lawyers, decided to seek a review of the case on the Bellingcat claim and a retrial in court. We are talking about a lawsuit by the Dutch publication Bellingcat against the Russian media. On March 11, it became known that the Amsterdam court ruled in favor of Bellingcat. In Russia, this decision was perceived as “another cunning illegal step by Bellingcat.” FAN Editorial...

On March 11, the decision of the Amsterdam court was announced in the suit of Bellingcat against RIA FAN. The editors of the online publication "Politonline" turned to the head of the board of trustees of the Patriot media group, Evgeniy Prigozhin, for comment. The District Court of Amsterdam ruled in favor of Bellingcat, in connection with which the editorial staff of RIA FAN is obliged to remove articles from which it becomes known that Bellingcat journalists offered bribes to FAN employees...