Anastasia Kirilenko

Anastasia Kirilenko

Investigative journalist

Graduated from Novosibirsk State University of Economics and Management and the Franco-Russian Master’s program in Journalism at Moscow State University. Collaborated with Radio Liberty, Caucasian Knot, and Courrier International. Conducted investigations into Russian organized crime and its international ties. Currently works as an investigative journalist at The Insider. Co-author of the documentary Who is Mister Putin? and known for her interview with Marina Salye, which revealed key archival documents on early Putin-era corruption.

5 Publications

Publications

5 publications

Karen Dawisha and the truth she spoke loudly

Journalists and Prosecutors Smeared for Investigating Putin’s Financial Ties

Article Apr 23, 2018

Putin’s 4 percent: How criminal kingpins with Kremlin connections launder oil money in Monaco

The Insider’s investigation into Petersburg Oil Terminal and the Tambovskaya gang

Article Jan 18, 2018

A suitcase full of cash from the Solntsevo Mafia: does Putin have a compromat on the Hungarian leader?

The Insider’s investigation into Orbán’s sudden turn toward Moscow in 2009

Article Feb 10, 2017

Putin to a Western country leader: “I’ll crush you”

Nicolas Hénin on Putin’s 2007 Conversation with Sarkozy

Article Sep 8, 2016

Why is the West so weak when it comes to the Russian mafia?

Most Western cases against Russian mafia figures have led to nothing

Article May 16, 2016