Illustration: Mila Grabowski / Mediazona Mediazona studied the “Nevzlin archive” - correspondence between businessman Leonid Nevzlin and lawyer Anatoly Blinov. We analyzed more than 2.5 thousand messages, restored their logic and chronology, compared correspondence and real events, and talked with the people mentioned there.

Illustration: Anna Makarova / Mediazone Two years after the recognition of the FBK, an “extremist organization” in Russia was condemned by only a few people for its financing, although everyone who continues to help the organization unequivocally threatened. Probably, the security forces could not establish the sacrifice (except for several people whose data became known to banks due to a technical failure).

Anastasia Bortnik. Screenshot from the documentary "Border zone" From the first days of the war, the mother -in -law of Anastasia Bortnik was under occupation - she lived in a psychiatric hospital in the village of Strelachi right at the border with Russia. Anastasia tried to organize her evacuation, but all attempts were breaking away. By mid -August, the girl desperate and decided to go after her - through Russia, it seemed to her that there was no other way left.

Illustration: Maria Granatkina / Mediazon Two months ago, Vladimir Putin personally announced the prevention of the murder of “one of the famous Russian journalists”, according to him, “curators from Western services” are behind the attempt.

Illustration: Mari Msukanidze / Mediazone Journalist Oksana Baulin was killed on March 23 in Kyiv during the filming. "Mediazona" tells everything that is known for today about the Ukrainian business trip of Oksana and the circumstances of her death. “When her things were brought, I brought a bag, looked, there are some documents, a computer, three phones lie on top, everyone said like the police. Everything seems to be in place. And then one phone begins to play, someone calls her.

Second study on the coronavirus base of the Ministry of Health Two weeks ago, Mediazon, Medusa and Kholod issued a joint study on the federal coronavirus register, in which we counted 29 million records. We received many additional questions and objections from readers, and the Ministry of Health - instead of a detailed answer to our requests - called the publication “fantasies”.

In the closed Covid -ire-Russian Ministry of Health, there were five times more records than officially ill in Russia Studying the certificates issued by “public services”, “cold”, “mediazon” and “Medusa” found that in the register of the Ministry of Health, created to track the number of coronavirus, more than 29 million records are five times more than the operational headquarters officially reports.

Illustration: Nikita Shulaev / "Mediazona" As Mediazona found out, from April to November in Russia, at least twice as many people died in Koronaviral Patients, which is taken into account in the official statistics of the Stopkoronavirus.rf site for the entire time of the pandemic.

Official statistics of coronavirus deaths are several times diverging with an indicator of excess mortality, which Mediazona calculated on the basis of Rosstat and registry offices for seven months of the pandemic and in the previous five years. According to these data, 120 thousand people died more than usual in Russia, while Rospotrebnadzor believes that there were many times less victims of the pandemic.

Illustration: Maria Tolstova / Mediazone Boris Nemtsov was shot in late evening on February 27, 2015 on the Big Moskvoretsky Bridge, hundreds of meters from the Kremlin. Five performers were condemned for the attempt - for nine months the process was on them, but did not answer the question of who ordered to kill one of the main opposition politicians in Russia and organized this murder.

Maxim "Tesak" Martsinkevich. Photo: Peter Kassin / Kommersant In the chamber of the Chelyabinsk pre -trial detention center they found the dead neo -Nazi Maxim Martsinkevich, better known as the “Tesac”. According to the FSIN, he committed suicide. Defenders do not believe in this version and say that Martsinkevich told them how he was tortured in recent months, demanding a confession of the murders of the beginning of the two thousandths. "Mediazona" recalls Tesak and his long prison path.

Illustration: Nikita Shulaev / Mediazon The case of the former Kommersant correspondent Ivan Safronov falls into the trend for the intensified work of counterintelligence to search for internal enemies: the number of sentences of “spy” articles has been growing for 10 consecutive years. On the morning of July 7, the FSB operatives detained the adviser to the head of Roscosmos and the former Kommersant correspondent Ivan Safronov on suspicion of Gosomen (Article 275 of the Criminal Code).

Mediazona, together with the demographer Alexei Rakshya, studied mortality data during pandemia in April and May 2020 and discovered regions in which mortality growth is an order of magnitude exceeds official data on coronavirus deaths. To understand how Koronavirus influenced mortality in Russia, we compared the data on all deaths in 2020 with the average mortality rate for 2015-2019. We applied the results on an interactive card. We noticed several trends that we explain in the text below.

David Frenkel for "Mediazons" Dmitry Pchelintsev and Ilya Shakursky On February 10, the court in Penza pronounced the sentences to the seven left activists under the case of the “network” . For the creation of a “terrorist organization”, they received terms of six to 18 years. Most of the defendants in this case said that it is built on the testimony received by the FSB employees under torture - and described in detail how these torture took place.

Alla Konstantinova and her dogs Hera and Ushsha. Frame from CCTV camera Petrozavodsk journalist Alla Konstantinova, the author of texts about torture in IK-9 in Karelia, found that she was tracked by the head of this colony Ivan Savelyev and his deputy Ivan Kovalev. Both of them can become accused in the criminal case, which the Investigative Committee initiated after the publication of the video in which Savelyev and Kovalev beat the prisoner.