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Izocam Hill has been a public health timebomb for decades. The construction may light the fuse.

09 April 2024 | Dilovası, Turkey

Yalıtım üreticisi şirketin adını taşıyan 12 bin metrekarelik İzocam Tepesi, onlarca yıldır halk sağlığını tehdit eden bir saatli bombaydı. Yeni başlayan bir yol çalışması ise tartışmaları daha da kızıştırabilir.

09 April 2024 | Dilovası, Turkey

A 40-year free-for-all on the “Garden of Europe” has led Spain’s Almeria to the brink of catastrophe

08 January 2024 | Photographs by Ian Howorth

Shipbreaking is one of the world’s most dangerous jobs. Can the EU keep workers safe?

04 October 2023 | Aliağa, Turkey

A documentary on how shipping pollutes the planet, avoids taxes, dodges regulations, & gets away with it.

30 April 2021 | Europe

The shipping industry is a massive climate polluter. Is it committed to change?

30 April 2021 | Europe

Two-year legal battle ends in win for Football Leaks reporting

25 February 2021 | Bucharest

Jean-Marie Michel Mokoko landed in Turkey last Friday for treatment for malaria. His supporters and lawyers suggest he is COVID posititve.

04 August 2020 | Turkey

Spanish investigate football agent over €10 million worth of luxury villas in Mallorca, funded by club network of fictitious transfers

25 February 2020 | Spain

Rui Pinto, the face of Football Leaks, has spent the last nine months in prison. He is charged with 147 crimes.

20 December 2019 | Lisbon

22 MPs in the Turkish parliament asked for a commission to be set up to investigate the lethal dump

29 October 2019 | Turkey

Who dumped lethal asbestos and harmful waste in the hills of Dilovası?

11 October 2019 | Turkey

Dilovası’nda izolasyon malzemesi ve ölüm tehlikesi saçan asbest atıklarının sorumlusu kim?

11 October 2019 | Türkiye

Küresel sanayinin Türkiye’nin en yeşil ilçelerinden birini yaşanmaz hale getirişinin hikâyesi

11 October 2019 | Türkiye

How global industry turned a once green Turkish province into an environmental wasteland.

27 September 2019 | Turkey

For more than three decades, the residents of Dilovası, in Turkey, have lived under the destructive boot of industry

27 September 2019 | Turkey

Sixty of Romania’s public hospitals are refusing to provide women with abortions, the result of doctors invoking the ‘conscience clause’. An investigation by The Black Sea

11 July 2019 | Romania

Rui Pinto'nun Portekiz'e iadesine karar verildi. Yetkililer endişeli.

09 March 2019 | Budapeşte, Bükreş

Football Leaks whistleblower Rui Pinto faces extradition to his home country of Portugal, following a criminal complaint by a secretive Kazakh family

08 March 2019 | Budapest, Bucharest

Новая книга утверждает, что люди, близкие к правящим кругам России и Италии, спланировали вывести три миллиона евро из государственной энергетической сделки, чтобы профинансировать предвыборную кампанию партии “Лига”.

23 February 2019 | Италия

A new book claims figures close to Russian and Italian leaders planned to siphon €3 million from state energy deal to finance Lega's electoral campaign

22 February 2019 | Italy, Moscow

Prosecutors from nine countries are joining forces to share and examine the biggest data leak in history

19 February 2019 | The Hague

Rui Pinto, futbol sevgisinden ve hayatından bahsederken karşılaştığı suçlamalara da yanıt verdi.

01 February 2019 | Budapeşte

Outed as the source of the Football Leaks revelations, Rui Pinto talks about his life, his work and its impact on the industry behind the beautiful game

01 February 2019 | Budapest

Şantaja teşebbüs ve gizliliğin ihlali ile suçlanan Pinto’nun önünde uzun ve zorlu bir dava süreci var.

25 January 2019 | Macaristan

William Bourdon, lawyer for Rui Pinto, named as the whistleblower for Football Leaks, opens up on this exceptional case

25 January 2019 | Budapest

30 year-old Portuguese Rui Pinto is under house arrest pending a decision to extradite him to Portugal to face criminal charges

18 January 2019 | Budapest

Tutuklunun avukatları Pinto'nun Portekiz'e iadesini engellemeye çalışıyor

18 January 2019 | Avrupa

Türk kulüplerinin ödediği transfer komisyonları yabancı ve Türk aracıların yanı sıra offshore hesaplara da gidiyor

06 December 2018 | Türkiye

Agent fees from Turkish clubs goes to foreign and Turkish intermediaries, as well as to offshores

06 December 2018 | Turkey

How poker star, online betting king and suspected member of the Chinese Triads, Paul Phua, won over the Adriatic country

27 November 2018 | Montenegro

Clubs risk match-fixing scandal, bankruptcy and closure following Chinese agent's investments in teams

19 November 2018 | Eastern Europe

Referees reveal how they fix off-season football matches in Cyprus

19 November 2018 | Cyprus, Romania

Billionaire Dmitry Rybolovlev and his entourage are suspected of corrupting a micro-state on the French Riviera

16 November 2018 | Monaco

Hugo Almeida, Quality Football adlı fon şirketi aracılığıyla transfer etmişti. Altın fırsat olarak sunulan anlaşma birkaç yıl sonra kulübün daha da borca batmasına sebep oldu.

16 November 2018 | Türkiye

Besiktas used the Mendes-connected Quality Football fund to purchase Hugo Almeida in 2011, presenting it as a golden deal. But the club would soon learn that there is no such ...

16 November 2018 | Turkey

Portekizlilerin başını çektiği İspanyol, İrlandalı, İngiliz, Hollandalı vergi müfettişlerinden oluşan bir ekibin, ünlü menajer Jorge Mendes’in iş ilişkilerini araştırdığı ortaya çıktı.

13 November 2018 | Avrupa

Revealing the Balkan refuge for millions in fees from contracts for the Best FIFA Men's Player 2018

13 November 2018 | Bosnia & Herzegovina, Belgium, Spain

Menajer Bulut, 2010-2011 yıllarında Beşiktaş’ın Mendes’le yaptığı anlaşmaların kilit ismiydi. Bu anlaşmalardan ve birçok başka transferden kazandığı paralar ise vergi cennetlerindeki hesaplarına gitti.

10 November 2018 | Türkiye

How much money does Ahmet Bulut have in tax havens?

10 November 2018 | Turkey

Ünlü menajerin birbiri ardına Beşiktaş’a getirdiği oyuncular için kulüpten aldığı 6 milyon avro usulsüz sözleşmeler imzalanarak kazanılmış.

09 November 2018 | Türkiye

Superagent Mendes negotiated a wave of Portuguese players to the Turkish club and netted €6 million in “commissions” . One problem: The contracts were illegitimate

09 November 2018 | Turkey

Multi-millionaire Israeli agent's hold over Mouscron under focus

09 November 2018 | Belgium, Cyprus

European football authority knew Russian state companies were pumping over €1bn into top-flight teams

06 November 2018 | Russia

Rus devlet şirketleri 2018 Dünya Kupası öncesinde dört büyük takıma 1.5 milyar avro aktardı

06 November 2018 | Rusya

Dev kulüpleri UEFA’dan koparacak ve daha da zenginleştirecek yeni Avrupa Ligi hayalleri

04 November 2018 | Avrupa

The inside story of the plan for a breakaway European football league

02 November 2018 | Europe

UEFA covered up fair play frauds by billionaire-backed PSG and Man City while punishing Eastern European clubs

02 November 2018 | Europe

UEFA’dan PSG ve Man City’nin fair play hilelerine örtbas, Doğu Avrupa’ya ceza üstüne ceza

02 November 2018 | Türkiye

Futbolu temizlemeye and içen John ve sızdırdığı 70 milyon belge.

02 November 2018 | Avrupa

All you need to know about the largest ever journalism data leak

02 November 2018 | Europe

Eastern and Western Europe are at war over the salaries of drivers

02 November 2018 | Belgium, Romania

Over one billion Euro in human resources projects faced a lack of monitoring, despite high-profile scandal

18 October 2018 | SOFIA

Kickback controversies, conflicts of interest, near-zero ambitions: the EU-backed human resources program under investigation

18 October 2018 | Bucharest

East European drivers are fed answers for road health and safety exam

12 October 2018 | Slovakia, Romania, Norway

How salaries migrate across the EU in the road haulage business

04 October 2018 | Netherlands, Romania, Poland

Baked pig, whisky, dancing and used clothes: a Roma celebration

26 September 2018 | Bistrita, Romania

How urban planning in Bucharest changed from a western vision of functional housing to a sabotage of the city

07 September 2018 | Bucharest

What happened to the ideal Modernist city on the edge of Bucharest

05 September 2018 | Bucharest

Three friends still face terror charges five years after their arrests during Turkey's Gezi Park protests

22 June 2018 | Turkey

Romania after dark

18 June 2018 |

Inside the world of Turkey’s hardline president and his final grab for power. A report in collaboration with Der Spiegel

16 June 2018 | Turkey

Consulting giant Accenture promoted software showing how to boost prices of design-protected car parts

31 May 2018 | USA, France, Romania

İkinci yılını dolduran AB-Türkiye mülteci anlaşması kağıt üzerinde zafer olabilir, peki ya gerçekte?

30 May 2018 | Türkiye

Ex-lawyer's role in stories attacking Romanians in The Sun and Sky News, the truth of which are under question

12 April 2018 | BIrmingham, Jeica

Unfinished mansions are appearing across north Romania’s rolling fields - built by emigrants hoping to return to a better home

11 April 2018 | Romania

Sızan gizli belgeler, AB üye devletlerinin Türkiye ile yapılan mülteci anlaşmasının devamı için fona katkı yapmaktan hoşnut olmadıklarını gösteriyor

31 March 2018 | Türkiye

Leak reveals EU nations unhappy about paying bill to maintain bargain with Turkey

31 March 2018 | Brussels

What happened to the billions that Brussels pledged to Turkey to keep refugees out of the EU?

30 March 2018 | Turkey

Lord Boateng accepted fees from offshore shell of suspected fraudster Alvaro Sobrinho

26 March 2018 | Portugal, Angola

The European Union is funding military equipment used by Turkey to stop refugees from fleeing the Syrian Civil War and entering the EU

23 March 2018 | Turkey

Avrupa Birliği kendi fonları ile satın alınan askeri araçlarla, mültecilerin Suriye’den kaçarak Türkiye’ye sığınmasına ve Avrupa’ya ulaşmasına engel oluyor

23 March 2018 |

How classy Italian label and French owner used a Swiss bypass to save up to 2.5 billion Euro in tax

16 March 2018 | Lugano, Milan, Paris

Serbian Prime Minister’s former firm was part of offshore network investing in renewables in Europe and Australia

14 March 2018 | Malta, USA, Serbia

A landscape of leisure and tension

06 March 2018 |

Did Sporting Lisbon's key shareholder, multimillionaire Alvaro Sobrinho, steal money from his own bank?

03 March 2018 |

The quest for a better life at the outskirts of Bucharest

05 February 2018 | Romania

When it comes to the public purse, the classic Italian label is no big spender

26 January 2018 | Switzerland, Milan, Paris

Payments by Barcelona to Lionel Messi’s charitable foundation have come under focus by Spanish authorities

12 January 2018 | Argentina, Spain

Shipping firm owned by Turkish leader's brother-in-law opened account in EU tax haven of Malta

20 December 2017 | Malta

Erdoğan’ın eniştesi Ziya İlgen’in sahip olduğu denizcilik firması vergi cenneti sayılan Malta’da hesap açmış

20 December 2017 | Türkiye

Exorcism amator sub investigatie

18 December 2017 | Oltenia, Romania

Migrant wave through Serbia to west Europe highlights plight of Serb refugees from Yugoslav regions in 1990s

15 December 2017 | Subotica, Serbia

Erdoğan ailesi ve yakınlarıyla bağlantılı tek bir değil, ikisi Man Adası biri Malta’da kurulu toplam üç offshore şirket var.

29 November 2017 |

Opponents of the Turkish President claim his relatives have an offshore company. We can reveal they have three

29 November 2017 | Turkey

Italy’s manufacturers have been checking out a relocation to Russian-occupied peninsular

05 November 2017 | Crimea, Italy

How VW built up a 17 billion Euro business in the Grand Duchy with only five employees

27 October 2017 | Wolfsburg, Luxembourg

Welcome to the minimum wage society

24 October 2017 | Brussels, Washington D.C, Bucharest

What is the source of multi-million wealth of Lola Karimova, daughter of deceased Uzbek leader Karimov?

13 October 2017 | Los Angeles, Paris, Uzbekistan

Confidential info sharing and oversight lack risk undermining results of world court

13 October 2017 | The Hague, Netherlands

Despite Turkey’s attack on Yes vote in Kurdish referendum, Ankara was a willing participant in secret oil contracts with Iraqi-Kurds, in defiance of Baghdad

10 October 2017 |

Yıllardır Bağdat’ı göz ardı edip IKBY ile doğrudan ilişki kuran Ankara, bağımsızlığa giden yolu petrol boru hatlarıyla açtı

10 October 2017 |

How celebrities and billionaires interfere in the pursuit of global justice

09 October 2017 | The Hague, Hollywood

European Aerospace giant created “slush fund” in UK as part of offset deal

06 October 2017 |

Ex-prosecutor Luis Ocampo plays behind scenes in failure to bring justice to 1000s killed in political violence

06 October 2017 | The Hague, Nairobi

Romania’s parents leave to work abroad in the absence of a living wage at home, and children pay the price

05 October 2017 | Liteni, Romania

Lies, conflicts of interest, a false identity: how lobby for persecuted Iraqi minority messed up

02 October 2017 | The Hague, Iraq

Offshore accounts and Libyan war interests of ex-prosecutor Luis Moreno Ocampo probed

29 September 2017 | Libya, USA, Netherlands

Recent police raids against the Camorra mafia group across Europe reveal alleged plots to traffic marijuana, cocaine and guns. But the suspects were surprising: two ex-diplomats for the United Nations

04 September 2017 | Italy

Outgoing president José Eduardo dos Santos gives daughter a multi-billion dollar dam contract

26 August 2017 | Luanda, Hong Kong

Milyonluk satış Azerbaycan devletine ait dev petrol şirketinin Erdoğan ailesiyle olan bağını ortaya çıkarıyor

14 July 2017 | Turkey

Recent mega-deal raises questions over energy multinational’s links to Turkey’s first family

14 July 2017 | Turkey

Malta Files, Cumhurbaşkanı Erdoğan’ın ailesi ile Sıtkı Ayan ve Azeri iş adamı Mübariz Mansimov arasındaki milyon dolarlık petrol tankeri ortaklığını ortaya çıkarıyor.

26 May 2017 |

Malta Files exposes multi-million USD oil tanker deal between family of Turkey leader, his close friend, and an Azeri billionaire

26 May 2017 | Turkey, Malta

PM Yıldırım's family has offshores with at least $140 million in assets - including cargo ships and properties in the Netherlands

24 May 2017 | Netherlands, Turkey, Malta

Yabancı bayraklı ve yabancı ülke şirketlerine kayıtlı en az 11 kargo gemisi, Hollanda’da 7 gayrimenkul, 100 milyon doları geçen servet

24 May 2017 |

Huge Istanbul mosque received 600,000 Euro through Dutch offshore owned by son of PM Binali Yildirim

24 May 2017 | Malta

How Russian Billionaire and Fashion TV investor paid near zero-tax on global small loans biz

19 May 2017 | Romania, USA, Malta, Latvia

DEEP ANALYSIS: How Fashion TV investor and Russian billionaire Oleg Boyko and his Latvian partners are using Malta as a tax haven

19 May 2017 | Malta

Enerji, tekstil ve inşaat devi Çalık Holding, milyonlarca liralık vergiden kaçmak için bir offshore şirketler ağı kurdu. Fakat sonrasında bu plana ihtiyaç kalmadı çünkü Çalık çok daha kolay bir yöntem ...

19 May 2017 |

Turkish conglomerate Çalık Holding’s plan to deprive Turkey of millions in taxes abandoned for simpler option: having ex-CEO Berat Albayrak let them write tax law

19 May 2017 | Turkey

The European Union's own tax haven investigated

17 May 2017 | Malta

Avrupa Birliği’nin en küçük ülkesi nasıl vergi cennetine dönüştü

17 May 2017 |

Cancelled passports, blackmail allegations, death threats

01 April 2017 | Bucharest

28 March 2017 |

16 March 2017 |

Fashion icon on mission for top British honours

03 February 2017 | London, UK

Project included sponsor deals for central Asian 'dictators'

03 February 2017 | London

After calling the charity his number one priority, icon delayed parting with cash

03 February 2017 | London

Communist, Nationalist and underground symbols fight for Ukraine capital urban space

24 January 2017 | Kyiv

War victims as young as 11 picking fruit for EU supermarkets

19 January 2017 | Turkey

Romanian kids abused by Italian elite at Rome Termini station

10 January 2017 | Rome, Italy

Inside the world of the men making millions from football transfers

21 December 2016 | London

Rixos Hotel ve Sembol İnşaat'ın gerçek sahipleri kim? Trump'un Soho projesine Rus mafyası nasıl karıştı?

21 December 2016 |

Sıtkı Ayan'la yapılan ortaklıklar, kapılan büyük ihaleler, yabancı devlet başkanlarını etkileme planları.

21 December 2016 |

Doyen Grup ve ardındaki Kazak-Türk Arif ailesinin sessizce büyüttüğü ve mafya, oligarklar, devlet başkanlarını kapsayan ilişkiler ağı.

21 December 2016 |

Doyen'in Türkiye şirketleri ve bağlantıları, Türkiye'deki vergi kaçırma operasyonları, rüşvet konuşmaları.

21 December 2016 |

Who is the Kazakh-Turkish family behind so many football scandals?

20 December 2016 | Turkey

Millions of files in the Football Leaks dataset relate to the business of a Kazakh-Turkish family called the Arifs.For the past 25 years they have operated almost unnoticed, while building ...

20 December 2016 |

Millions of files in the Football Leaks dataset relate to the business of a Kazakh-Turkish family called the Arifs.For the past 25 years they have operated almost unnoticed, while building ...

20 December 2016 |

Millions of files in the Football Leaks dataset relate to the business of a Kazakh-Turkish family, the Arifs. For the past 25 years they have operated almost unnoticed, but built ...

20 December 2016 |

An exclusive interview for European Investigative Collaborations

19 December 2016 | Zurich, Switzerland

Integrity of President-Elect associates on big-name projects questioned

16 December 2016 | New York City

Scandal on the Mediterranean: a police raid, suspected trafficking of girls and connections to the elite of America, Russia, Turkey and Kazakhstan: new findings

16 December 2016 | Turkey

Miami vice

16 December 2016 | Spain, Monaco, USA

Cypriot Club Apollon Limassol at centre of scandal for "ghost" transfer of football stars

15 December 2016 | Romania, Serbia, Cyprus

Shadowing the international streetwalkers of Naples

14 December 2016 | Naples, Italy

Bulut'un menfaat çatışması barındıran sözleşmeleri ve offshore şirketine aktardığı en az iki milyon avro.

10 December 2016 |

Argentinian football agents use Dutch companies to transfer South American players to European clubs

10 December 2016 | Netherlands, Argentina

Agent of Turkey’s most expensive player involved in dubious multi-million side deals, with bank accounts in tax havens

10 December 2016 | Istanbul, Barcelona

Marco Termes reveals his life as model, dancer, poet, novelist and football industry straw man for hire

10 December 2016 | Amsterdam, Netherlands

Exposing the cash machine behind the 105 million Euro boy from Paris suburbs

09 December 2016 | Paris, Manchester, Turin

Orphanage closure at breakneck speed

07 December 2016 | Tbilisi

18.6 milyon doküman içinde futbolcu sözleşmelerindeki en garip maddeleri araştırdık.

06 December 2016 |

Deals to secure players loved and loathed around Europe - from our trove of 18.6 million documents

06 December 2016 | On the pitch, Europe

Tackling a dodgy business deal from the 'Maradona of the Carpathians'

05 December 2016 | Cyprus, London, Romania

Romanya’nın genç yeteneği Cristian Manea, futbolun efsanevi ismi Gheorghe Hagi ve gizemli bir şirkete yatırılan bir milyon avro.

05 December 2016 |

Belgeler, futbol dünyasındaki yolsuzluğun ve vergi kaçırmanın boyutlarını gözler önüne seriyor. Peki Football Leaks nasıl ortaya çıktı?

02 December 2016 |

Sport’s biggest data leak in history exposes the tax shenanigans of one of the world’s highest valued players A feature published in Der Spiegel, part of the European Investigative Collaborations ...

02 December 2016 | Madrid, Spain

Spanish tax authorities are investigating the German international

02 December 2016 | London, Madrid, Dusseldorf

Özil’in İspanya’da vergi kurumlarınca bir buçuk yıl boyunca inceleme altına alındığı ve beyan etmediği gelir üzerinden milyonlarca avro geriye dönük vergi ödediği ortaya çıktı

02 December 2016 |

From where did the largest dataset leak in the history of sports come?

02 December 2016 | Hamburg, Germany

Finding a new class of east European addicts who steal for heroin in Spain

23 November 2016 | Canada Real, Madrid

Ex-cons on the buzz of crime, serving time and discrimination

21 November 2016 | Milan, Bucharest

I jumped in a car and journeyed through a gloomy Moldovan Autumn - without any target in mind

10 November 2016 |

Exploring the favelas of the Romanian Roma in Italy

08 November 2016 | Calarasi, Romania, Naples

Women sex-trafficked from Romania to Spain reveal journey from tragedy to recovery

01 November 2016 | Madrid, Spain

Why does the Baltic state have the highest percentage of expats in EU jails?

01 November 2016 | Vilnius, Lithuania

How Romania topped prisoner numbers in Italy - and how this is changing

01 November 2016 | Naples, Rome

Employees for 'Company for Women’ fight for better deal for female blue-collar staff

04 October 2016 |

Child protection changes probed in nations rising from Communism

26 September 2016 | East Balkans, The Black Sea

Locals and inheritors battle to keep ownership of village, land and forest

28 March 2016 | Nadas, Romania

East Europe shadow gun market fueling terrorism

18 March 2016 | Slovakia, Paris

Lack of EU rules and free market fetishism ease sale of weapons used by terrorists

18 March 2016 | Slovakia, Paris

Moldova's power supply depends on firm in frozen conflict zone with mysterious off-shore owners

14 March 2016 | Transnistria, Moldova

A village that struggled through communism is now sold off to Italians

05 March 2016 | Dudestii Vechi, Romania

Dozens of users die as annexed peninsular switches drug policy

25 February 2016 | Crimea, Ukraine

In the most isolated village in Romania's Danube Delta, the Russian community of Lippovans of Sfiştofca hold an annual championship in chess

18 December 2015 |

Locals forced to give up land, which is sold on to Dutch Rabobank subsidiary at massive profit

16 December 2015 | Dobrogea, Romania

Georgia's disabled strike out to achieve self-empowerment

15 December 2015 | Tbilisi

Moldova's ruling class is in turmoil - but its opposition is fiercely divided

01 December 2015 | Chisinau, Moldova

Smallholders wake up to find their land seized by corrupt officials

06 November 2015 | Zarand, Romania

Exporting Islam to five continents with massive multi-million mosque blitz

29 September 2015 | Europe, Africa, America, Asia

Kısa mesajla işten atılıyorlar, fazla mesaiye zorlanıyorlar ve sosyal medyada gözetleniyorlar: Türkiye’nin oto sanayi çalışanlarının hakları ihlal ediliyor.İşçiler ve sendikaları, işverenlerinin finansörlerinden olan Avrupa İmar ve Kalkınma Bankası’na işçi haklarını ...

17 September 2015 | Turkey

Auto-workers suffer violations at plants supported by publicly-funded bank

17 September 2015 |

Human rights first casualty of nation's drive to be major EU export market

18 June 2015 | Turkey

Pro-business drive for growth has fatal consequences for young

18 June 2015 |

Ekonomiyi büyütme baskısı gençler için ölümcül sonuçlar doğuruyor

22 May 2015 | Türkiye

AB ihracat pazarının başlıca ülkesi olma yolunda hiçe sayılan insan hakları

22 May 2015 | Türkiye

Four Romanian photographers are revealing the Danube's Delta people and their ways of life

06 May 2015 |

Stepping through the minefield of history at a flashpoint between the EU and Russia

27 March 2015 | Bucharest, Chisinau

Virus risks plaguing region as political warfare rages and economies tumble

23 January 2015 | Russia, Ukraine, Moldova, Romania

Shot in the revolution, pimped out and lost to heroin - a forgotten victim of Romania's uprising

16 December 2014 | Bucharest

Counting up the deaths of construction workers for Russia's Winter Olympics

10 December 2014 | Russia

Troubled region struggles to dump its label as a nest of terrorists

04 November 2014 | Pankisi, Georgia

A summer journey through Moldova's ethnic Turk republic

21 October 2014 |

To stop rise of HIV, the country needs a deep and meaningful conversation about sex

13 October 2014 | Chisinau, Cahul, Moldova

Eight reasons why Romanian society neglects victims of domestic violence

07 October 2014 | Cluj, Bucharest, Romania

Exploring the hidden crime of domestic violence among Romania's middle classes

02 October 2014 | Cluj, Bucharest, Romania

Criminals are flooding the EU with fake perfumes from China - and bringing funds for gangsters

11 July 2014 | Constanta, Romania

Joy and beauty in the ruins - a photo-journey through the beach resorts of Abkhazia, the frozen conflict neighboring the Winter Olympics in Sochi

11 July 2014 |

Paralyzed by legal highs, singer was homeless, his body collapsing - until he took up popping, locking and breaking

11 July 2014 | Bucharest

Injectable home-made drug is savaging heroin-starved addicts

02 July 2014 | Tbilisi

Jewish Theatre survived the Holocaust, Communism and Revolution - but is now under threat of collapse

21 May 2014 | Bucharest

Bizarre prizes, diplomatic pressure, a dance with Vanessa Redgrave - PR gold mine-style

20 January 2014 | Bucharest

In a country divided between the influence of the EU and Russia, Christmas is a political celebration

25 December 2013 | Chisinau

How Moldova's Orthodox right rages against the rise of western values

17 December 2013 | Chisinau, Moldova

Breaking free of crime and addiction needed a cocktail of God and Freud for ex-fighter Yuri

17 December 2013 | Transnistria, Moldova

Meeting the dedicated opponents of shale gas fracking across two continents

12 December 2013 | Poland, Romania, USA

With the future of Transylvanian gold mining plan in question, a report from a village where families are at war

11 December 2013 | Rosia Montana, Romania

Marriages in northeast Romanian villages adopt a fresh identity in an age of work migration

09 December 2013 |

How Romanian work migrants sacrificed the comforts of a life abroad to build the dream mansion at home

26 November 2013 |

Fake executions, forced confessions and attacks on prisoners' families in shadow republic

21 November 2013 | Transnistria, Moldova

Drug users face disability due to injecting dye from kids' chemistry sets

19 November 2013 | Tbilisi, Georgia

Remote village becomes video studio for global market - without the knowledge of the victims

16 November 2013 | Seini, Romania

Fish farms with links to Yerevan Parliament are sucking up water supplies for desperate villages

14 November 2013 | Sayat Nova, Armenia

Mapping how politicians exploit high value fish farm business

14 November 2013 | Zorak, Armenia

First family of Azerbaijan shareholdings with firms in tax havens, new records reveal

13 November 2013 | Baku

The journey of one Georgian woman through three decades of opiate abuse

12 November 2013 | Tbilisi, Georgia

Romanians working in France transform cottages in their home villages into mansions of steel and concrete

12 November 2013 |

Mysterious, menacing, mythical and unknown - a travel story in pictures around the Black Sea

06 November 2013 |

Billionaire divorce exposes money-laundering ties between the Black Sea and Caribbean

05 November 2013 | Kyiv

Extent of criminal growth of GMOs remains a mystery

31 October 2013 | Bucharest

Fatal intoxicant extracted from anti-flu tablets targets facial bones of users

30 October 2013 | Chisinau, Moldova

Ten years of American pro-GMO lobby in Bucharest reaps a change in Romanian view on biotech

30 October 2013 | Bucharest

As Romania poises for mass murder of its strays, a documentary explores how canines took over the country

25 October 2013 | Romania, Netherlands

Rip-off fears for nation as US energy giants gear up for fracking

17 October 2013 | Pungesti, Romania