Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and his ruling party have spent years turning Hungary’s media environment into their playground — not through outright repression, but through market distortion and regulatory capture. Can anything be done?

A man adjusts Hungarian flags before a pro-Orban protest in Budapest, in March 2018. (Photo: Reuters/Alamy Stock Photo)

Hitmen working for a criminal group active in Montenegro and Serbia used open-source intelligence techniques, poring over apartment listing sites, satellite images, and tourist photos posted online, to track down and kill the leader of a rival clan as he hid out in Greece.

President Tokayev has vowed to clamp down on the theft of state assets, and billions of dollars have already been recovered. But experts fear that the president’s backroom decisions are leaving the public in the dark — and serving primarily his own interests.

Kassym-Jomart Tokayev is sworn in as president of Kazakhstan on November 26, 2022. (Photo: Xinhua/Alamy Live News)

Every day, forty-six year-old Dia walks into the jungle to seek exhausting, dangerous and precarious work in the diamond pits that pockmark the landscape of Kono District in eastern Sierra Leone.

If he is lucky, he will dig for up to 10 hours in knee-deep mud to receive US$2-3 at the end of the day.

Artisanal diamond mine on the outskirts of Koidu. (Photo: Josef Skrdlik/OCCRP)

The head of the village appears to have abused a new land-titling system intended to help illiterate farmers, using it to take control of a chunk of former state land for himself, according to an investigation by iFact.

Plots of land in Duzagrama under the control of Mukhtar Ismayilov. (Photo: ifact.ge)