Europe

Over the past 15 years, a lottery created to fund Lithuania’s Olympic athletes has outsourced more and more functions — and...

A $1.35 million watch was stolen from the son of an Azerbaijani official. First they denied it happened at all. Now they’re...

Sharofiddin Gadoev was a successful businessman, then an opposition activist, then a refugee in hiding. This is the story of...

Nikolai Nikolaev has portrayed himself as a friend of the Tajikistani opposition, a human rights activist, and a vocal...

Montenegro aspires to join the EU. But banking documents from the Troika Laundromat show that the country is a destination...

Cyprus attorney Kypros Chrysostomides, aka Dr. K, served as the fix-it man for disgraced U.S. lobbyist Paul Manafort. But...

During the rule of Hugo Chávez, the Venezuelan government awarded generous electricity contracts and oil concessions to a...

The family of Vladimir Zhirinovsky, a controversial elder statesman of Russian politics and leader of the Liberal Democratic...

It is widely known that major Russian media outlets — especially television — are controlled by the government. But who...

At Gromov’s insistence, the first (and current) editor-in-chief of Russia Today, the worldwide pro-Kremlin channel now known...

Hungary’s ruling party foundation paid over 150,000 euros to a well-connected Belgian politician for dubious research during...

Troika Dialog, once Russia’s largest private investment bank, couldn’t have set up and run the Troika Laundromat without...