why my guest today, christo grozev, bases his investigative journalism in digital detective work. he is the lead russian investigator for bellingcat and the cause of cereal embarrassment to the kremlin with his revelations about the poisoning of alexei navalny and other russian military and intelligence operations. he says he follows the facts wherever they lead but what is his motivation? christo grozev, in washington, dc, welcome to hardtalk. thank ou for dc, welcome to hardtalk. thank you for having dc, welcome to hardtalk. thank you for having me dc, welcome to hardtalk. thank you for having me on dc, welcome to hardtalk. thank you for having me on hardtalk. l you for having me on hardtalk. it is a pleasure. alexei navalny is famously described you once as just a bulgarian nerd with a laptop. since he said that, you become thejoint winner of an off guard, you are in the international limelight as an investigative journalist academy award. does this all make yourj
there is an overriding public interest when you talk about government mandated legislation. we talk about government mandated assassinations.- government mandated assassinations. ., ., ., assassinations. how far do you believe the assassinations. how far do you believe the overriding - assassinations. how far do you believe the overriding interest| believe the overriding interest will lay and allow you to take. for example, would you and your team undertake hacking yourselves? team undertake hacking ourselves? t, t, yourselves? no. again, there would be yourselves? no. again, there would be the yourselves? no. again, there would be the exceptional - yourselves? no. again, there| would be the exceptional case when the hack would be on a fake identity email account when this person does not exist, it s a spy. this maybe sort of a borderline case but we would never actively start hacking any personal email acts accounts. hacking any personal email acts accounts- accounts.