A multimillionaire Los Angeles-based podiatrist co-owns the Cypriot company behind a prominent pro-Kremlin propaganda website, Forensic News can exclusively report. The podiatrist, Dr. Vladimir Zeetser, owns a minority share of DRN Media, the company behind the Duran, a website promoting false conspiracy theories echoing Russian state messaging. He was added […]

A top financier for Donald Trump’s re-election campaign and the legal charade to overturn the results of the 2020 U.S. Presidential election spent three days in 2019 on a now-seized superyacht owned by an influential Russian oligarch, Forensic News can reveal. Photographs posted on Instagram from an account belonging to […]

The first digital trace of Leo Radvinsky dates back to 1997 when Radvinsky, then just 15-years-old, acted as a webmaster for an online science fiction strategy game called X-COM: Apocalypse, where players fend off attacking aliens invading from space.   During the ensuing 23 years, Radvinsky built an online operation of […]

Bills banning stock trading by lawmakers are gaining traction in the U.S. House and Senate amid mounting public attention on the market moves made by leadership and the rank-and-file alike.  Some of the proposed bills impose restrictions on lawmakers’ immediate families. The “Ban Congressional Stock Trading Act,” introduced by Sens. […]

A Russian cybersecurity company placed on a U.S. Commerce Department export ban list for having “enabled the activities of malicious Russian cyber actors” has maintained an active U.S. presence that has attracted the scrutiny of federal investigators, a Forensic News investigation can reveal. Open Joint Stock Company Information Technology and […]

If 2021 is known for anything, it should be remembered as the year with the most restrictive state legislation to date. Republican lawmakers across the country have proposed a record number of bills that limit voting rights, target LGBTQ+ people, curtail gun control, and obstruct Covid-19 prevention measures. They aren’t […]

A former senior Soviet Foreign Ministry official in the U.S. filed as a Foreign Agent for a top aide to Russian billionaire Oleg Deripaska, who has been described by the U.S. Senate as a key figure in the Kremlin’s malign influence operations.  The paperwork filed under the Foreign Agent Registration […]

The FBI is conducting a wide-ranging criminal investigation into a Russian diaspora group, which announced on November 18th that it was shutting down operations because of federal scrutiny. The Daily Beast first reported FBI interest in The Russian Community Council of the USA (or KSORS — their Russian acronym) in […]