Months After Estonia Drops Swedbank Case, Trove of Office Memos Show Laundering Was Open Joke
One of Tallinn’s most notorious corruption scandals came to a quiet conclusion this year when a case against Swedbank was...
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Know Your Host: Why It Matters That Azerbaijan Is Hosting the COP29 Climate Summit
Azerbaijan's COP29 Organizers Criticized For Oil Ties, Other Potential Conflicts of Interest
In authoritarian Azerbaijan, corporate ownership records are not publicly available — and transparency campaigners have...
Tears and Torture: Venezuela’s Teenagers Face Brutal Justice for Protesting Rigged Election
In the aftermath of this summer's protests against the regime of Nicolás Maduro, dozens of teenagers were rounded up and...
A Russian Non-Profit Interferes in Moldova’s EU Referendum — And Builds an Anti-Western Influence Machine
Backed by fugitive Moldovan oligarch Ilan Shor, the ‘Evrazia’ organization is paying Moldovans to vote against the EU. It’s...
‘Robbing Peter to Pay Paul’: Inside Steward’s Crumbling Massachusetts Hospitals
As two of Steward’s resource-strapped hospitals closed in August, staff described unpaid bills, dire working conditions, and...
‘We Couldn’t Work Properly’: How Azerbaijan Obstructed Red Cross Relief During the Nagorno-Karabakh Siege
Tens of thousands of people were going hungry — but the International Red Cross faced growing obstacles as it tried to...
A Lawsuit Promises Justice for Rio Tinto’s Mining Disaster in Bougainville. Some Say It’s Nothing But a Cash Grab.
The Panguna mine made a fortune but left war and pollution in its wake. A new lawsuit backed by anonymous investors is now...
How Crypto ATMs in the U.S. Became A Favorite Tool for Scammers
While crypto ATM operators insist they take steps to protect the public, investigators say the machines are a gift to...
Ukrainian Women Share Their Accounts of Rape by Russian Forces, As Reporters Investigate Their Assailants
Two young women gave their accounts of rape by Russian soldiers to the Kyiv Independent, who set out to identify those...
Toxic Vegetables? In Kenya, Former Farm Workers Sue After Working with Pesticides
Sickness and death befell the former employees of a British farm who allegedly worked with pesticides. Now, they want...