Carl Schreck

Also by Carl Schreck

• March 11, 2025

  Exclusive: Suspected Russian Spy Seeks Top Security Post In Serbia, Central Asia

  A Russian diplomat, quietly pressured to leave Brussels amid espionage allegations, has been nominated for a leadership role in the OSCE.

• March 01, 2025

  Russia's Foreign Mercenaries In Ukraine War: Military Leak Shows Bosnian Serb Fighter As GRU Officer

  A military hospital database obtained exclusively by RFE/RL offers additional evidence of soldiers from more than a dozen nations who have fought for the Kremlin in Ukraine, including a notorious Bosnian Serb mercenary listed as a Russian military intelligence officer.

• February 18, 2025

  Russia's War On Ukraine Fuels Kyrgyz Passport Boom

  A burgeoning market for Kyrgyz passports has sprouted in Russia, offering greater travel and other freedoms amid international sanctions and domestic repressions since President Vladimir Putin launched all-out war on Ukraine. Not everyone in the Central Asian nation is happy about it.

• February 09, 2025

  Russian Musician's Fatal Plunge During Police Raid Triggers Doubt About Suicide 

   A Russian musician who opposed the Kremlin’s war on Ukraine plunged to his death from his 10th-story apartment during a police raid reportedly linked to his support for Kyiv. Those who knew him doubt he would take his own life.

• January 30, 2025

  China Supplying Key Chemicals For Russian Missiles, RFE/RL Investigation Finds

  An investigation by RFE/RL’s Schemes has found that companies at least partially owned by the Chinese state are feeding critical minerals to Russian suppliers to manufacturers of weapons the Kremlin has used to pummel Ukraine since its all-out invasion nearly three years ago.

• January 11, 2025

  A Wagner Mercenary Who Crossed U.S.-Mexican Border Was Honored In Russia Weeks Before Arrest 

  A man who illegally crossed the Rio Grande River into the United States reportedly admitted to having worked with the notorious Russian mercenary group Wagner. His arrest came just weeks after he appears to have been honored in Russia for his combat service.

• December 17, 2024

  The Many Faces Of Europe Invasion, The Anonymous X Account Stoking Anti-Immigrant Narratives

  An RFE/RL investigation reveals that an influential X account called Europe Invasion concocted fake personas to push xenophobic narratives and fuel anti-immigrant sentiment in the EU. 

• December 08, 2024

  Celebrations, Looting, And Statue Surfing: Scenes From Syria After Assad's Fall

  Following the collapse of Bashar al-Assad’s rule in Syria, images emerged of jubilation and chaos, including toppled statues and the sacking of government buildings.

• October 21, 2024

  The UN Says Crimea Is Ukrainian. So Why Did Its Nuclear Agency Fund Russian Research There?

  Records obtained by RFE/RL show that the UN’s watchdog for peaceful nuclear energy sponsored studies by Russian research institutes in Crimea, the Ukrainian peninsula that Moscow seized in 2014, in what Kyiv calls a violation of its sovereignty.

• August 02, 2024

  'They Remain In Torturous Conditions': The Prisoners Left Behind In Russia After Historic Exchange 

  A multination prisoner swap between Washington and Moscow freed three U.S. citizens and Russian opposition activists from Russia. But several other Americans and hundreds of other Russians deemed political prisoners remain incarcerated there.

• August 01, 2024

  Who Are The 24 Prisoners Who Were Swapped In U.S.-Russia Deal?

  The list of people released on August 1 in a multiple-country prisoner swap, the largest of its kind since the Cold War, is a diverse and sweeping roster of personalities and backgrounds, a mix of people with little to nothing in common -- except being swept up in months of diplomatic wrangling.

• May 18, 2024

  'A Living Hell': Pakistani Students Describe Harrowing Bishkek Mob Violence

  After mob violence targeting foreign students engulfed Kyrgyzstan’s capital, Pakistani students told RFE/RL how the angry crowds broke into dormitories to attack them.

• May 07, 2024

  Exclusive: The TikTok Trail Of The U.S. Soldier Arrested In Russia Left By His Russian 'Wife'

  A Russian woman who described U.S. soldier Gordon Black as her "husband" posted numerous videos of the couple together in South Korea, giving a glimpse of their relationship before he became the latest American citizen arrested by Russian authorities.

• April 29, 2024

  Secretive Uzbek Network Scrambles To Cover Online Tracks After RFE/RL Exposé

  A shadowy Uzbek firm with ties to the president’s family has scrambled to reanimate its dormant website after a recent RFE/RL investigation revealed it had secured more than $100 million in secretive state gas deals despite having a virtually imperceptible public business footprint.

• March 23, 2024

  In Russian Crises, Putin Often Vanishes From Public Eye

  During Russian President Vladimir Putin's 24-year reign, he has repeatedly waited days to make public statements during tragedies and terrorist acts like the March 22 concert hall attack in Moscow.

• February 16, 2024

  'Quietly Having Me Killed': Interviewing Navalny Before He Became Navalny

  Navalny was like a Bizarro Putin: tall, gregarious, freewheeling, and completely at ease speaking off the cuff.

• January 09, 2024

  The Yacht Collector: Russian Tycoon Linked to 'Putin's Yacht' Fights Straw-Owner Claim In U.S. Court 

  A Russian tycoon accused of being the straw owner of a super yacht actually belonging to Russian President Vladimir Putin is fighting to wrest control of a second luxury vessel seized by the United States over its links to a Kremlin-loyal billionaire. 

• November 29, 2023

  Revealed: The Kremlin-Connected Russians Employed By Europe's Top Security Body

  The wife of a Russian ministry official, an interpreter for Vladimir Putin, and a former diplomat whom Western intelligence suspects of spy links: These are the Russians whose employment by the OSCE has raised concerns amid what critics call Kremlin efforts to paralyze the European security body.

• September 17, 2023

  The Romanian Ghost Village Where Air-Raid Shelters Are Being Built After Russian Strikes On Ukraine 

  The Romanian Defense Ministry has installed air-raid shelters in Plauru after repeated Russian attacks on Ukrainian sites across the river and multiple discoveries this month of drone fragments on the Romanian side.

• September 06, 2023

  Moldova Kicked Out Most Of Russia's Diplomats, But The Embassy In Chisinau Still Has Close Ties To Spies

  In August, Moldova kicked out 45 Russian diplomats and embassy staff, citing fears of Moscow's efforts to "destabilize" the country. But among the diplomats remaining in Chisinau, a new investigation by RFE/RL has found that many of them are linked to Russian intelligence agencies.

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