Finally, you can of course access our Emmy award-winning reporting on the poisoning of Alexey Navalny on our website for free! bellingcat.com/news/uk-and-eu…
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Last night, Bellingcat’s investigation with CNN into the poisoning of Alexey @Navalny won two Emmy awards, the first for Outstanding Investigative Report in a Newscast
The second Emmy award was for Outstanding Research: News. A huge thank you to @clarissaward and her team at CNN for helping to bring this story to a wider audience in such an engaging way
CNN’s reporting can be seen here, including the moment where @clarissaward doorsteps one of the FSB team members involved with Navalny’s poisoning identified by Bellingcat’s research.
UK authorities have just announced Denis Sergeev, who travelled to the UK under the alias Sergey Fedotov, has been charged as the third suspect in the poisoning of Sergei Skripal. Bellingcat first revealed Sergeev's involvement in the poisoning two and a half year ago.
Denis Sergeev, travelling under his alias Sergey Vyacheslavovich Fedotov became a person of interest in our investigation after Russian news outlet Fontanka discovered he had travelled around the same time as the Skripal suspects using a similar passport number.
The GRU’s habit of creating passports for fake identities in batches at the same passport office made it easier to find fake personas, and led us to connecting the Sergey Fedotov alias to a previous suspected nerve agent poisoning in Bulgaria in 2015 bellingcat.com/news/uk-and-eu…
Fans of Hungary's national team have recently faced scrutiny for displaying homophobic banners & alleged racist chants.
Now, @ColborneMichael reports that anti-LGBT banners held by some #Hungary fans at #EURO2020 appear to be connected to a neo-Nazi group bellingcat.com/news/uk-and-eu…
Last week, Hungarian football fans booed England players taking the knee and allegedly aimed racist chants at the team’s black players.
But this wasn’t the first time a group of extreme Hungary fans have brought a hateful agenda into stadia.
European football’s governing body, UEFA, fined the country’s football federation and ordered the team to play 2 UEFA matches without spectators in response to anti-LGBT & racist behaviour from Hungarian fans during EURO 2020 matches. bbc.co.uk/sport/football…
This includes all the individuals identified in our investigation with @the_ins_ru who we demonstrated were tied to the attempted assassination of @navalny
Our full investigation into the poisoning of @navalny containing many more details about these individuals and the assassination attempt can be found here bellingcat.com/news/uk-and-eu…
It should not be forgotten that various combinations of these same individuals were linked to a number of other apparent assassinations and attempted assassinations. After Navalny, we first linked the deaths of three activists to their movements. bellingcat.com/news/uk-and-eu…
As the war in Ethiopia continues to rage, speculation continues over the use of armed drones in the conflict zone. But now, a series of photos of PM Abiy Ahmed’s visit to an airbase reveals interesting aircraft in the background. Could they be drones? @wammezz investigates.
To find out, Bellingcat obtained high resolution satellite imagery of the Semara Airfield from @planet and @maxar. This gave a clearer ID on the shape, size and wingspan of what were indeed drones. We could now compare them with similar Chinese, Turkish and Iranian drone types.
A closer look at the background of more images from PM Ahmed's visit suggested that these drones bear close similarities to the Mohajer-6, an armed drone manufactured by Iran.
In March, the Amsterdam District Court ruled that articles published in 2020 by RIA FAN about Bellingcat & its staff members were incorrect & unlawful. Today we note, following a challenge by RIA FAN, the same court has upheld its initial verdict. bellingcat.com/riafan_en/
All RIA FAN achieved with its opposition is that the penalties ordered by the court for non-compliance have been withdrawn for practical reasons. Nevertheless, RIA FAN remains obliged to pay Bellingcat's legal costs.
Crucially, the offending materials must still be removed from RIA FAN's website. Regrettably, we note that this has not yet happened.