Ilya Lozovsky
@ichbinilya.bsky.social
Writer and senior editor at OCCRP. Investigative journalism, democracy, corruption, US politics, Europe and Eurasia. More fun than this profile IRL. Currently in Amsterdam!
can this be real??
November 14, 2025 at 7:00 PM
can this be real??
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?
November 11, 2025 at 12:41 PM
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?
It’s not the worst example of the genre, but I’m glad they don’t do this postmodern shit anymore. It annoys me that this building is trying to be funny.
November 8, 2025 at 5:29 PM
It’s not the worst example of the genre, but I’m glad they don’t do this postmodern shit anymore. It annoys me that this building is trying to be funny.
walking around Amsterdam in the fall: Not Bad
November 1, 2025 at 2:54 PM
walking around Amsterdam in the fall: Not Bad
hey, that’s a nice city
October 30, 2025 at 9:16 PM
hey, that’s a nice city
As far as I can tell, it was all triggered by this Daily Mail story, the top of which reads like this.
Honestly, is this a sound reading of what she said?
Honestly, is this a sound reading of what she said?
October 6, 2025 at 7:46 PM
As far as I can tell, it was all triggered by this Daily Mail story, the top of which reads like this.
Honestly, is this a sound reading of what she said?
Honestly, is this a sound reading of what she said?
This was first pointed out by @codendahl.bsky.social, so I listened to the relevant part of the interview myself.
It's just 1 minute long. Here's a translated transcript, along with the original German if you wish.
It's just 1 minute long. Here's a translated transcript, along with the original German if you wish.
October 6, 2025 at 7:46 PM
This was first pointed out by @codendahl.bsky.social, so I listened to the relevant part of the interview myself.
It's just 1 minute long. Here's a translated transcript, along with the original German if you wish.
It's just 1 minute long. Here's a translated transcript, along with the original German if you wish.
Horrible story about a Russian man who fled the military, hoped for asylum in the United States, but has now been sent back to the gulag.
September 16, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Horrible story about a Russian man who fled the military, hoped for asylum in the United States, but has now been sent back to the gulag.
I’m touching it! I’m touching it! Is it working??
September 13, 2025 at 1:45 PM
I’m touching it! I’m touching it! Is it working??
going back to the basics here
August 18, 2025 at 11:38 PM
going back to the basics here
pov: you live in the Netherlands and you go visit Greater Boston, which is pretty progressive and they’ve been building out cycling infrastructure and how bad could it be…
August 3, 2025 at 12:59 AM
pov: you live in the Netherlands and you go visit Greater Boston, which is pretty progressive and they’ve been building out cycling infrastructure and how bad could it be…
The Danish site makes no mention of any Russian office or branch. But an archived version of the site does! Here it is, from October 2022 — months after the full-scale war. There’s a Novorossiysk office listed.
July 15, 2025 at 3:31 PM
The Danish site makes no mention of any Russian office or branch. But an archived version of the site does! Here it is, from October 2022 — months after the full-scale war. There’s a Novorossiysk office listed.
There’s a major Danish shipping inspection company called Baltic Control.
A side-by-side comparison of the websites of the Danish company and the Russian one make it clear they’re operating under the same brand.
A side-by-side comparison of the websites of the Danish company and the Russian one make it clear they’re operating under the same brand.
July 15, 2025 at 3:31 PM
There’s a major Danish shipping inspection company called Baltic Control.
A side-by-side comparison of the websites of the Danish company and the Russian one make it clear they’re operating under the same brand.
A side-by-side comparison of the websites of the Danish company and the Russian one make it clear they’re operating under the same brand.
Here she is, captured in a satellite photo, being loaded up in the occupied port of Berdiansk on the Azov Sea.
As it happens, our reporters managed to find some interesting info about this exact loading (from April 2024).
As it happens, our reporters managed to find some interesting info about this exact loading (from April 2024).
July 15, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Here she is, captured in a satellite photo, being loaded up in the occupied port of Berdiansk on the Azov Sea.
As it happens, our reporters managed to find some interesting info about this exact loading (from April 2024).
As it happens, our reporters managed to find some interesting info about this exact loading (from April 2024).
This is the Nadezhda, a Russian cargo ship accused by Ukrainian military intelligence of exporting pillaged Ukrainian grain to Turkish ports.
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July 15, 2025 at 3:31 PM
This is the Nadezhda, a Russian cargo ship accused by Ukrainian military intelligence of exporting pillaged Ukrainian grain to Turkish ports.
🧵👇
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Elon Musk's X is such a cesspool of antisemitic Nazi propaganda, it's mindblowing. Here's a minute and thirty seconds of scrolling through the replies to a post by the Auschwitz Exhibition.
June 26, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Elon Musk's X is such a cesspool of antisemitic Nazi propaganda, it's mindblowing. Here's a minute and thirty seconds of scrolling through the replies to a post by the Auschwitz Exhibition.
Trump has published a private message he received from Mark Rutte, the head of NATO.
Really wild stuff. It won't surprise anyone that Trump's ego requires an extraordinary level of flattery — we've seen how his cabinet secretaries perform for him — but this is really beyond.
Really wild stuff. It won't surprise anyone that Trump's ego requires an extraordinary level of flattery — we've seen how his cabinet secretaries perform for him — but this is really beyond.
June 24, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Trump has published a private message he received from Mark Rutte, the head of NATO.
Really wild stuff. It won't surprise anyone that Trump's ego requires an extraordinary level of flattery — we've seen how his cabinet secretaries perform for him — but this is really beyond.
Really wild stuff. It won't surprise anyone that Trump's ego requires an extraordinary level of flattery — we've seen how his cabinet secretaries perform for him — but this is really beyond.
June 12, 2025 at 8:41 PM
So cute how Amsterdam runs these old trams on weekends. This is my aesthetic.
May 25, 2025 at 4:27 PM
So cute how Amsterdam runs these old trams on weekends. This is my aesthetic.
This pencil portrait of a young German boy, imprisoned without his parents at Ravensbruck concentration camp, was drawn by a Dutch artist and Resistance fighter, Aat Breur-Hibma, who was also held there. The boy was transferred to Auschwitz and gassed.
April 26, 2025 at 1:41 PM
This pencil portrait of a young German boy, imprisoned without his parents at Ravensbruck concentration camp, was drawn by a Dutch artist and Resistance fighter, Aat Breur-Hibma, who was also held there. The boy was transferred to Auschwitz and gassed.
Here are some of the top threads on the /r/smallbusiness subreddit right now.
April 8, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Here are some of the top threads on the /r/smallbusiness subreddit right now.