Here’s an interview with Aric Toler of Bellingcat that I took in June 2017. Parts of it were broadcast by Radio Svoboda (in Russian). It has never been published in English.

You’ll learn how a student of Russian language can get an unlikely job in Merrill Lynch and then become a leading Open Source Intelligence specialist, how Bellingcat is run and financed, and how two self-employed guys managed to beat the leading intelligence agencies of the world in finding the people who downed Boeing MH17 over Ukraine.

Sorry for the background noise, we talked in a pub that was almost empty when we started but became quite crowded in the course of the conversation.

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