Stories — September 2026

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Stories — September 2026

Ivan Kirsanov had been working on a surveillance system project for the Russian Federal Security Service. Then he left the country taking a copy of its internal documents archive. Why did he do it and what can we learn from the files?

3 September

Polina Uzhvak, Rina Nikolaeva

Unsafe Connections: the Classified Files Archive and the Philosophy Shared by an FSB Surveillance Project Ex-Developer

How does the internal digital system used in Russian elections operate? The vulnerabilities, the issues and the creation process of the new GAS Vybory 2.0 system have been disclosed due to a successful hacker attack on the system’s developer

17 September

Egor Feoktistov, Sonya Savina

Russia’s Digital Elections System Creation and Vulnerabilities Disclosed

Anomalies and statistics show that 18 of 30 millions of “paper votes” for United Russia in last week’s elections might actually be fabricated, which would mean that the ruling party’s real result would be at around 35% instead of the declared 58%

22 September

Rina Nikolaeva, Timur Khairutdinov

About 60% of Paper Votes for United Russia Might be Fabricated