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14 Dec, 8 tweets, 3 min read
Bellingcat, working with @the_ins_ru has identified the FSB team behind the attempted assassination on @navalny, uncovering phone records and flight records showing the team followed him over 30 times since he announced he would run for president
bellingcat.com/news/uk-and-eu…
Our investigation has also identified other instances where it appears there were attempts in poison Navalny, including one previously unknown incident where it appears his wife was exposed to an unknown agent during one of the trips the FSB team followed them on.
Details of how we investigated Russia's nerve agent based domestic assassination programme can be found here bellingcat.com/resources/2020…
CNN joined our investigation and will be releasing more material related to the investigation, a preview of which can be found here edition.cnn.com/videos/world/2…
Coverage from @the_ins_ru of the investigation can be found here theins.ru/politika/23770…
CNN also has additional reporting on Russia's domestic nerve agent based assassination programme edition.cnn.com/2020/12/14/eur…
Navalny has now published a video about the attempt to assassinate him, and our exposure of the FSB team behind it. You can turn on subtitles and auto translate them to English, as shown below
Our reporting partner Spiegel now has coverage of the story in German spiegel.de/politik/auslan…

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The Social Dilemma on Netflix is very good, especially as a companion piece to Behind the Curve. Both demonstrate how effective the internet is at detaching people from reality. It's something I see on all sorts of topics, from MH17 Truthers to Covid-19 Truthers, and beyond.
It's really remarkable when you compare different online communities that have a focus on conspiracy theories or an obsession about certain topics how many similarities you begin to see between those different communites.
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Yevgeny Prigozhin responds to Bellingcat's recent investigations into his activity in Africa and smearing of journalists - "go fuck yourself". Sounds like we may have touched a nerve. spiegel.de/politik/auslan…
Part one about his involvement in Africa, and with the Russian military and Russian PMCs can be found here bellingcat.com/news/uk-and-eu…
Part two about his organisations involvement in targeting journalists can be found here bellingcat.com/news/africa/20…
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Part two of this investigation should be out early next week, looking at Yevgeny Prigozhin’s history of illegally surveilling, threatening and harassing independent journalists, as well as organised disinformation campaigns targeting journalists bellingcat.com/news/uk-and-eu…
Internal documents and interviews with former staff members working for Prigozhin's organisations for the first time reveal specific plans for campaigns against individual journalists and news organisations.
We'll also look at the disinformation campaign by RIA FAN against Bellingcat that had Prigozhin's direct involvement, triggered by the investigations in Prigozhin we're publishing at the moment. It's all gone a bit meta.
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THREAD - Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman gave one of their notorious press conferences today, where they yet again accused a public figure of a terrible crime, this time @JoeNBC. The accuser was Mark Hoffman, but there was something wrong with "Mark".
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8 Apr
Thread - The OPCW IIT report is just out, as suspected it focuses on the March 24th, 25th, and 30th 2017 chlorine and Sarin attacks in Al-Lataminah. The report concludes Syrian government forces were responsible for all three attacks.
opcw.org/sites/default/…
The report also confirms the use of M4000 bombs in the March 24th and March 30th attack. Bellingcat had previously identified the M4000 bomb as the type used in the March 30th attack based on careful examination of open source evidence bellingcat.com/news/mena/2019…
Unsurprisingly the IIT says the Syrian Arab Republic wasn't much of a help in the investigations.
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Three years since the Khan Sheikhoun Sarin attack we should take some time to remember one of the worst examples of mainstream reporting on the attack; Seymour Hersh's article published by @welt, something they've never apologised for bellingcat.com/news/mena/2017…
Hersh's claim, "Syrians had targeted a jihadist meeting site on April 4 using a Russian-supplied guided bomb equipped with conventional explosives", was shown to be a complete fabrication by the OPCW-UN JIM, and not even supported by the Russian and Syrian claims.
Hersh wrote this supposed Russian bomb destroyed the target, releasing a cloud of chemicals "formed by the release of the fertilizers, disinfectants and other goods stored in the basement". This was complete nonsense, with Sarin detected in multiple samples from Khan Sheikhoun.
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