Russia

This complex network of companies belonging to the paramilitary group will make any Kremlin takeover a challenge. Learn more in our story here.

Our documentary reveals how the Russian private military company hides the flow of riches and resources that ultimately connect to the Kremlin. Watch the documentary here.

Yuri Kovalchuk, with vast holdings in banking and media, is helping his longtime friend Vladimir Putin tighten the Kremlin’s grip on the internet. Read the full story here.

The web of shell companies and middlemen managed by services firm Bridgewaters makes it hard for authorities to track assets and enforce sanctions. The company has connections to now-blacklisted oligarchs including Alisher Usmanov, Andrei Skoch and Sergei Chemezov. Read the full story here.

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said sanctions would “impose massive costs on Putin’s closest confidants.” In reality, the impact is far milder. Read the full story here.

After 2016, social-media companies tried to limit the reach of RT, as it is now known. Instead, the outlet has been boosted by a news aggregator dominated by conservative publishers, including National Review, The Daily Caller and Newsmax. Read the full story here.

A Wall Street Journal reconstruction of the worst known hack into the nation’s power system reveals attacks on hundreds of small contractors. Read the full story here.

The Russian operation to influence Americans through social media included an effort to persuade business owners to buy into a marketing campaign and turn over private information. Read the full story here.

Everybody knows Russian trolls love U.S. politics. But did you know they also really like the canceled Comedy Central game show @midnight with Chris Hardwick? Read the full story here.

Newly identified Twitter accounts were until recently still tweeting out politically divisive messages as midterm elections approach. Read the full story here.

The extent of Russian trolls’ social-media activity remains unknown. “We know something happened, but the public doesn’t know exactly what,” one expert said. Read the full story here.

The federal government’s troubles combating Russian trolls spreading fake news isn’t its only problem on social media. It is also struggling to keep track of which accounts are its own. Read the full story here.

Weeks after Donald Trump was elected president, Russia-backed online “trolls” flooded social media to try to block Mitt Romney from securing a top job in the incoming administration, a Wall Street Journal analysis shows. Read the full story here.

Russian operators used social media to pitch fake business directories and petitions in return for information. Read the full story here.

An analysis of 221,641 tweets shows Russian trolls tried to incite chaos, fear and outrage about fake events before their election activity, as if they were testing to see how much they could get Americans to believe. Read the full story here.

Former national security adviser Michael Flynn, who pleaded guilty last week to lying to the FBI about his conversation with a Russian diplomat, told an American businessman that U.S. sanctions on Russia would be “ripped up” under the Trump administration, a whistleblower told a congressman. Read the full story here.

Project backers drafted memos for President Trump and Flynn allies continued to push the plan after the Trump security adviser was ousted. Read the full story here.

Russian Twitter accounts began heaping praise on Donald Trump and ripping his rivals earlier than previously thought–within weeks after he announced his bid for the presidency in June 2015. Read the full story here.

As President Trump’s national security adviser, retired Lt. Gen. Mike Flynn promoted a controversial private-sector nuclear-power project in the Middle East that had once involved Russian companies, according to former security-council staffers and others familiar with the effort. Read the full story here.

Political consultant Aaron Nevins received documents from hacker ‘Guccifer 2.0’ and posted some on his blog. Read the full story here.

VEB, a Russian state-run bank under scrutiny by U.S. investigators, financed a deal involving Donald Trump’s onetime partner in a Toronto hotel tower at a key moment for the project, according to people familiar with the transaction. Read the full story here.

U.S. investigators have examined contacts Attorney General Jeff Sessions had with Russian officials during the time he was advising Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, according to people familiar with the matter. Read the full story here.

Results from Russia’s parliamentary vote earlier this month are studded with red flags that suggest broad electoral fraud, according to a Wall Street Journal analysis. Our analysis of nearly 100,000 voting precincts reveals potential vote-rigging, with up to 14 million votes in question. Higher turnout areas showed suspiciously strong support for Putin’s United Russia party. Large-scale protests have erupted in response to allegations of fraud, challenging Putin’s political legitimacy. In response, Putin promises transparent measures for upcoming elections....