You can contact Rina by mail nikolaeva@istories.media

Despite the fact that Russia is such a huge country, there are almost no independent media outlets remaining. Over the last 20 years the government has done an excellent job of silencing those who tell the truth about its officials. The truth about their palaces, their constant lies, and the wars they are waging which have already claimed the lives of hundreds of thousands of innocent people. IStories is a media outlet founded by Russia’s top investigative journalists.

I'm making investigations, data driven reporting, and documentary films. I've been a reporter of ‘Important Stories’ (IStories) since its launch in 2020. Before that, I worked in Russian newspaper Novaya Gazeta. I graduated from Higher School of Economics with a bachelor's degree in media communications and a master’s degree in data journalism.

I carried out my first investigation when I was 12 years old. It was all love’s fault. I fell in love with a boy at a summer camp, but when I returned home, I discovered that I’d lost his phone number. I had to set out on a quest to find one person in a huge city, knowing only his name, age and the fact that he lived in one of St. Petersburg’s children’s homes. Back then, the internet only worked through a dial-up connection and downloading one website cost 100 roubles.

Before the full -scale invasion of Russian troops in Ukraine, the Kherson region was included in the three leaders in terms of the volume of collected crops of grain crops. The Russian occupation forced many Ukrainian farmers to leave their homes and throw farms. The remaining to survive were forced to sell products at a low cost. The opportunity to earn on looting of farms left by Ukrainians and on the resale of cheap grain attracted many Russians to the Kherson region.

You can contact Anastasia by mail anastasia.korot@istories.media

I got into journalism immediately after the university. We can say, by chance: I studied at a psychotherapist. But work in the newspaper turned up, and at first got involved, and then fell in love. In the end, psychology and journalism have two common denominations. Both that, and another, it seems to me, exists to make people more adaptive, smarter, more flexible. Both that and another are built on the comprehension of amazing ones, often as if existing in a separate dimension, worlds.

Investigations, reports, human stories. You can contact me by mail fomina@istories.media or at @fomina_istories telegram

I am engaged in investigations, data research and documentaries. I work in “important stories” from the founding of the publication in 2020. Before that, she worked in the Date of the Novaya Gazeta. She graduated from undergraduate at the Faculty of Media Communications and the magistracy in the direction of data journalism at the Higher School of Economics.

I conducted my first investigation when I was 12 years old. The fault is love. In the summer camp, I fell in love with the boy, but when I returned home, I found that I had lost his phone. I had to find a man in a huge city, knowing only his name, age and the fact that he lived in one of the orphanages of St. Petersburg. The Internet then worked only through a cable for a mobile phone, and 100 rubles were removed from the account for downloading one site from the account.

In such a huge country as Russia, there are almost no independent media. The authorities have tried well over the past decades to plug the throats to those who are telling the truth about them. The truth about their palaces, about their constant lies and about the wars they unleashed, which have already claimed hundreds of thousands of lives of innocent people. “Important stories”-media, founded by famous journalists-investigators from Russia.

Investigative and Data Reports. You can contact alesya by mail alesya.marohovskaya@istories.media.

On April 23, Russian military investigators detained the ex-contractor of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation Kamil Kasimov, who deserted from the army in Astana. This information was confirmed by Kasimov’s brother, who lived with him in Astana, and Kazakhstani human rights activist Arthur Alkhastov. The Russian security forces took Kasimov in a civilian car to the territory of the Russian military unit in Priozersk (Karaganda region of Kazakhstan), where they are still held.

Investigations, Date research. You can contact Alesya.marohovskaya@istories.media by mail

I actually always dreamed of becoming a footballer. So, for many years I played football at various sports schools. But it didn’t happen. I felt depressed because of this for some time — I just didn’t know what I wanted to do. However, one very bad football commentator pulled me out of my depression. It’s a shame I don’t remember his name, but I would gladly thank him for the fact that, because of him, I discovered journalism. I was 17 years old.