How Russia Imports Foreign Components and Machinery

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How Russia Imports Foreign Components and Machinery

How Russia Imports Foreign Components and Machinery

IStories' reveals how Russia acquires foreign components and machinery to continue producing weapons for the war in Ukraine. More than 80 individuals and entities from our investigations have already been sanctioned.

18 February

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How Russia Imports Foreign Components and Machinery

Russia has received more than 8 million artillery rounds from the DPRK. An investigation by IStories and the Open Source Centre

16 March

Egor Feoktistov

Inside the Pipeline: How North Korea Armed Russia

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How Russia Imports Foreign Components and Machinery

Belarus-based Izovac captured a fifth of the global market in its field by 2020. We found its other clients as well — Russian military-industrial complex enterprises

24 April

Editors

How an Apple and Samsung Supplier Helps the Russian Military Industry

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How Russia Imports Foreign Components and Machinery

Russian defense manufacturing plants benefit from British measuring equipment and software systems

7 March

Anastasia Korotkova

Bypassing Sanctions: How British Company Renishaw Assists the Russian Army

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How Russia Imports Foreign Components and Machinery

Sanctions have complicated Russia’s effort to secure foreign-made military technology. But when it comes to sourcing the inputs for gunpowder — the explosive powering the army’s relentless artillery fire — Moscow can still rely on two Central Asian neighbors who have ramped up exports of cotton pulp, a key ingredient, since the invasion

21 December

Metin Kazama, Olga Loginova, Maria Zholobova

Central Asian Cotton Powers Russia’s Sanctioned Gunpowder Plants

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How Russia Imports Foreign Components and Machinery

How does Russia keep producing advanced weapons in the face of sanctions? An export control expert from the USA explains

14 February

Maria Zholobova

“It’s Not Hard to Evade Sanctions”

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How Russia Imports Foreign Components and Machinery

IStories found suppliers of original spare parts for Boeing and Airbus to Russia in the United Arab Emirates, China, Turkey and even in Europe

12 September

Roman Romanovskiy, Lizaveta Tsybulina

Why Russian Airplanes Keep Flying despite the Imposed Sanctions

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How Russia Imports Foreign Components and Machinery

An investigation about Inkotech, yet another supplier of contraband microelectronics for Russian weapons

26 October

Maria Zholobova

Components for One of the Deadliest Russian Missiles, Kalibr, are Being Supplied to Russia despite the Sanctions

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How Russia Imports Foreign Components and Machinery

IStories recently published a story about how the West supplies components for Russian Orlan drones. Now, we reveal how Rostec purchases Western components for electronic warfare systems that destroy Ukrainian defenses.

25 January

Maria Zholobova

The West Has Banned the Sale of Components for Weapons Production to Russia. But Russia’s Main Weapons Manufacturer, Rostec, Is Still Buying Them

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How Russia Imports Foreign Components and Machinery

During the course of Russia’s war on Ukraine, Western companies have supplied Russia with components to produce Orlan drones that help kill Ukrainians. An investigation by IStories, Reuters and the Royal United Services Institute

15 December

Maria Zholobova, Stephen Grey, Maurice Tamman

The West Has Banned the Sale of Components for Weapons Production to Russia. But Russia Is Still Buying Them

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How Russia Imports Foreign Components and Machinery

While designer Alexander Zakharov equips the Russian army with Lancets, his son Lavrentiy Zakharov works at the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research

19 July

Roman Romanovskiy

The Family of the Russian Suicide Drones’ Creator Owns Real Estate in the “Unfriendly” UK

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How Russia Imports Foreign Components and Machinery

Sanctions can’t stop Russia from importing products needed for ZALA Lancet. An investigation by IStories

13 June

Roman Romanovskiy

Who, How and Where Buys Components for the Deadliest Suicide Drones in the Russian Army

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How Russia Imports Foreign Components and Machinery

IStories revealed imports worth over 6 billion rubles in 2023

17 April

Anastasia Korotkova

How Russia Imports Machinery for Arms Production and Can It Be Stopped

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How Russia Imports Foreign Components and Machinery

Western sanctions are meant to prevent Russia from supplying its military from abroad, but sensitive electronics are still getting through. Reporters traced several of these supply chains through Kazakhstan — and found that they run through companies newly established by Russians.

19 May

Maria Zholobova, Benjamin Bidder, Ilya Lozovsky, Vyacheslav Abramov

Kazakhstan Has Become a Pathway for the Supply of Russia’s War Machine. Here’s How It Works

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