Riin Aljas is a digital forensics editor for RFE/RL who works on investigations using data and digital tools. She previously worked as a data journalist both in Estonia and in the United States.
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.
Inside Syria, the prison complex called Saydnaya was widely known for its cruelty and depravity. Newly liberated by rebels, the prison, its inhumane conditions, and its tortured former inhabitants are now spilling into the world’s view.
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.
The destruction of the Holy Mountains National Nature Park from intense fighting, occupation, land mines, and unexploded ordnance is a microcosm of how Russia's invasion is devastating Ukraine's environment.
The devices looked like those made by Taiwanese-based Gold Apollo, but the company said they were actually produced by a Hungarian company. Now, new findings point to additional connections in Bulgaria and Norway.
Ukrainian forces have taken control of at least 28 settlements in Russia's Kursk region, according to Russian officials. More than 120,000 people have been evacuated in the region which is also home to thousands of ethnic Armenians. Some say they could evacuate from the region altogether.
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.
Friends in high places come with lucrative benefits in Uzbekistan. For a phantom company with connections to the president’s son-in-law, these included tens of millions of dollars in opaque state contracts, a new RFE/RL investigation has found.
Three years ago, an unknown Uzbek company registered in an apartment emerged from nowhere to land more than $100 million in state contracts before vanishing again. A new RFE/RL investigation reveals the firm’s ties to the Uzbek president’s son-in-law.
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.
Two French nationals have told RFE/RL they're both very much alive and living in France, despite Russian state media claims they were in the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv at the time of a Russian missile strike on January 16.
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.
An RFE/RL investigation reveals how sanctioned Western electronics make their way to Russia via Central Asian firms -- some set up shortly after the Kremlin's full-scale invasion of Ukraine -- and end up in the hands of companies that have supplied the Russian defense industry.
While many European states have shown the door to hundreds of Russian diplomats, not only have they found a new home in Serbia, but the country has taken in alleged Russian spies, an RFE/RL investigation reveals.
