Riin Aljas

Journalist who likes to talk to data too | Digital investigations and datajourno @RFERL | Previously @Delfi, @EWScripps, @AP, @CNSmd | @merrillcollege alum

[Riin Aljas @riinaljas]

WOOP! Read our story https://t.co/V8TSpfV5pL

[The Society of Publishers in Asia @sopasia]

@initiumnews @malaysiakini @nytimes @tw_reporter_org @erc_earth @FT @VOAChinese @EconomicTimes @TheEconomist @business_today @narasitv @VICENews @Myanmar_Now @AP @smh @latimes 🏆 Technology Reporting - Award for Excellence - Regional group goes to @RFERL! A true tour de force of investigative reporting, with an in-depth and comprehensive approach to data—congratulations! #SOPAwards2024

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[Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty @RFERL]

You didn’t see this one coming���🎤

Unstoppable R.E.M. is dropping a never-before-heard remix — “Radio Free Europe 2025” — in tribute to RFE/RL, at a time when our future is uncertain and funding unstable.

🎧Pre-order the vinyl and help us stay loud: https://t.co/PZ1L6Jy2uD

[Martin Dvořák 🌈 @_MartinDvorak]

Zachraňme Rádio Svobodná Evropa/Rádio Svoboda! O víkendu jsem oslovil kolegy ministry s iniciativou na podporu jeho financování. Dnes jsem tento bod zvedl na jednání Rady 🇪🇺 pro obecné záležitosti. Prohlášení má tak podporu🔟států. Jsem rád, že i eurokomisaři @MartaKosEU a @Piotr_Serafin tuto problematiku vnímají a mají zájem najít řešení. Pokračujeme!

[Carl Schreck @CarlSchreck]

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[Carl Schreck @CarlSchreck]

Remember Igor Kirillov, head of Russia's nuclear defenses, assassinated in Dec. by an exploding scooter that Ukrainian intelligence took credit for?

Well, leaked Ru military hospital records show he'd actually been shot 9 months earlier & spent a month recovering. (Link below)

[Mark Krutov @kromark]

🧵With my colleagues, we analyzed the Russian Main Military Medical Directorate's database on 166,000 hospitalizations in Russian MoD facilities (Jan 2022���June 2024). It's incomplete but offers insights into the Russian army's dynamics. https://t.co/QuzpcbDMDl

[Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty @RFERL]

"Just imagine that [an area] three-quarters the size of Switzerland was burned or destroyed by trenches." -- Ukrainian Deputy Environment Minister Olena Kramarenko. #rfe_rl https://t.co/HxZ29eii8k

[Carl Schreck @CarlSchreck]

🚨 A new investigation by @RFERL's @ozodlik into how Uzbek political insiders rake in millions from the shadows of the lucrative gas market. This time, an obscure company linked to associates of the president's son-in-law: https://t.co/xiXzwR1CR4

A🧵on how it came together.

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[Mark Krutov @kromark]

1/2 Together with @Maja_Zivanovic we found and old VK account of Muhammad Faizov, one of the alleged perpetrators of Moscow attack. Nothing points to any Ukraine connections, while lots of photos hint that he took part in the assault for a reason. https://t.co/hEaicjPibz

[Holger Roonemaa @holger_r]

Loe ka meie inglisekeelset lugu, mis ilmus Vsquare’is. https://t.co/TRrlIjVJzA

[Global Investigative Journalism Network @gijn]

@istories_media @mediazona_by @RFERL @agents_media @dossier_center @SZ @OCCRP @Vlastkz @kloopnews @ichbinilya @CarlSchreck @MirandaOCCRP @ozodlik @derspiegel @BenjaminBidder @vvabramov @rebaltica @DelfiEE @FRONTSTORY_PL @Expressen @VSquare_Project @ndr @WDR @YahooNews @mindaugas_ausra @LRTenglish @the_ins_ru @Jurnal_TV @Dobrokhotov By reviewing state procurement records, @RadioiOzodi revealed that a pharma company headed by a relative of Tajikistan's president has won US$5.5 million in gov't contracts to supply drugs to the Ministry of Health & many other state medical institutions.

https://t.co/wmtkOcqylA

[Carl Schreck @CarlSchreck]

🧵After Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the EU blacklisted 19 Russian diplomats. One was an alleged foreign intel employee named Aleksandr Studenikin.

He's now an official OSCE election observer in Serbia.

A new @RFERL investigation : https://t.co/bsqbdckPZ6

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[Riin Aljas @riinaljas]

Further interactive deep dive into Fake Private Mercenary Company Redut by @rferl's @cxemu and Systema 🧵

[Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty @RFERL]

In September 2022, four Russian fighters with the “Wolves”’ battalion became trapped in the Ukrainian city of Balaklia.

They were two weeks into their mission when, fearing they had been abandoned by the retreating Russian military, they recorded this video:

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[Riin Aljas @riinaljas]

#FreeAlsu

[Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty @RFERL]

A court in the Russian city of Kazan has extended the detention of Alsu Kurmasheva, a veteran journalist from RFE/RL's Tatar-Bashkir Service who has been in Russian custody since October 18, by two months until February 5. https://t.co/9KzZfBeBzV

[Riin Aljas @riinaljas]

Latest from @CarlSchreck and @Maja_Zivanovic and me. How The Kremlin-connected Russians with previous intelligence links worked at Europe's top security body in Vienna.

[Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty @RFERL]

🧵1/8 The Kremlin-connected Russians employed by Europe’s top security body. The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), is a 57-nation regional security body based in Vienna  https://t.co/gLVFUKUSxG

[Riin Aljas @riinaljas]

@l_kaili KESSSEEEOOON 😊😊😊 (et sul siin teisi replysid ka oleks)

[Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty @RFERL]

What is it like talking to Russian mercenaries who went to invade Ukraine?

On the latest episode of @sgutterman's The Week Ahead In Russia, @ValeriaEgoshyna from @cxemu talked about her experience working on an exclusive about a fake private military company called Redut.

[Valeriya Yegoshyna @ValeriaEgoshyna]

Looks like @DefenceHQ @DefenceHQPress read and watched our with @cxemu & Systema & @RFERL latest huge investigaton about #Russian so-called #PMC #Redut!

You can do like that also, cause Eng subs are available now here: https://t.co/HAb6444ZKt

[Схеми @cxemu]

Російське ГРУ під виглядом «ЧВК Редут» створило тіньову армію державних найманців

Журналісти двох проєктів Радіо Свобода «Схеми» та «Система» провели масштабне дослідження цією псевдо-приватної військової компанії.

Ось коротко, що вдалося встановити⬇️

[Valeriya Yegoshyna @ValeriaEgoshyna]

Ви коли-небудь сиділи в камері з війьковим #РФ годин деь 5? Я - так.

Заради масштабного дослідження, що базується на унікальних документах-телефонах-трафіках-розмовах-супутниках-поїздках тощо. Про те, як #ГРУ створило #Редут і що вони накоїли в #Україні.

Дивіться цим вечором!