As Alexei Navalny is buried in Moscow, we remember his work as an investigator of corruption.

His well-delivered investigations revealed to millions of Russians how top officials got rich off the country’s energy wealth — while ordinary people suffered.
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***OUT TODAY*** After three extraordinary years following a thread that led from Conservative HQ to Putin's St Petersburg via Kathmandu and a royal Scottish retreat, my new book CUCKOOLAND is out. It's the tale of a world where the rich own the truth. Our world. 👇🧵

Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project 'is launching a new partnership with University of Exeter and Oxford to create and analyze new sources of data on enablers'.

Kicking off this project with Tena Prelec Tom Mayne R Soares de Oliveira Alexandra Gillies et al w/ Prof Liz David-Barrett Robert Barrington today.

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Thrilled to see this new project take off, bridging investigative journalism & policy research, and to work with John Heathershaw R Soares de Oliveira Tena Prelec and other top thinkers on the issue of corruption's many professional helpers.

Delighted to work with Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project and John Heathershaw Tena Prelec Tom Mayne at University of Exeter on this important project St Peter's College Oxford Martin School Oxford Politics and IR GPPi

Happy to undertake a new project on this excellent Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office programme that I have been working with since 2018 with colleagues Tom Mayne Tena Prelec R Soares de Oliveira Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project.
Details to follow.
Credit also Alexander Cooley David Lewis Casey Michel CH Russia Eurasia JC Sharman.

New publication for PeaceRep: an update of where we stand in #UAE - #Balkans relations, with a focus on Serbia, Montenegro and Bosnia-Herzegovina.

Thanks to Mateja Peter for convening this series and being a great editor!

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Looking forwaard to speaking at Oxford University Russian & East European Studies on my forthcoming book with Tena Prelec and Tom Mayne

Following the conclusion of our short inquiry into the UK's policy towards the Western Balkans, Lord Ashton has written to Foreign Secretary David Cameron outlining the Committee's findings and recommendations.

Read the letter here: committees.parliament.uk/publications/4…