Under the leadership of investigative journalism master Kristo Grozev, Bellingcat was unveiled to the world Russian Roles of Federal Security Service officers in the poisoning of Alexei Navalny and dozens of other operations. Bellingcat calls itself the People’s Intelligence Service, and not for nothing – mostly on a voluntary basis by a large number of data analysts and journalists, revealing to the public a number of stories that the heroes have never longed for. Even now, during his vacation, an experienced media expert is well aware of the latest shocking incident, For Belarus from the abduction of opposition journalist Roman Protasevich from an international flight with a destroyer. Hans Luiks (HL), the owner of the portal “Delfi” – the largest shareholder of the media publishing house “Ekspress Grupp” and the journalist of “Eesti Ekspress” Miks Salu (MS) talked about this and other nuances of “people’s intelligence” work with Grozev working for Bellingcat.
HL: First of all, I know you are very well informed about everything. And one of your theses, mentioned by Eliot Eagan in his book, says that there is a lot of information all around, but only time is missing. So, do you have any information about the events in Belarus, about the landing of the Ryanair flight? Novel [Protasevičs] and four people left the plane in Minsk and did not arrive in Vilnius. What do you know about the others?
Yes, we have information. In fact, this incident happened at the most inopportune time for me. By that, it doesn’t matter where I am, but I just don’t have the opportunity to explore it in detail because it has fallen that I have a vacation this week.
But I researched something. Three people [bez Protaseviča un viņa draudzenes], who left the plane in Minsk, at first sight appear to be innocent and unrelated to the case.
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