investigator and the cause of serial 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 s his motivation? christo grozev, in washington, dc, welcome to hardtalk. thank you for having me on hardtalk. it s a pleasure. alexei navalny famously described you once as just a bulgarian nerd with a laptop. since he said that, you have become thejoint winner of an oscar, you are in the international limelight as an investigative journalist. does all of this attention make yourjob harder? not necessarily. i was oblivious of any attention before all of these awards and i m oblivious of it now. i like to work from cafes so i get a lot more people approaching me and asking for a selfie but that is about the only disruption. you, until very recently, were based in vienna but you re talking to me from the united states. did you move away from v
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
he is bellingcat s lead russia investigator and the cause of serial 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 s his motivation? christo grozev in washington dc, welcome to hardtalk. thank you for having me on hardtalk. it s a pleasure. now, alexei navalny famously described you once as just a bulgarian nerd with a laptop . since he said that, you ve become the joint winner of an oscar. you are in the international limelight as an investigative journalist. does all of this attention make yourjob harder? well, not necessarily. i was oblivious of any attention before all of these awards, and i m oblivious of it now. i like to work from cafes, so i get a lot more people approaching me and asking me for a selfie. that s about the only disruption. you, until very recently, were based in vienna, but you are talking to me fro
in digital detective work. he is bellingcat s lead russia investigator and the cause of serial 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 s his motivation? christo grozev, in washington, dc, welcome to hardtalk. thank you for having me on hardtalk. it s a pleasure. alexei navalny famously described you once as just a bulgarian nerd with a laptop. since he said that, you have become the joint winner of an oscar, you are in the international limelight as an investigative journalist. does all of this attention make yourjob harder? not necessarily. i was oblivious of any attention before all of these awards and i m oblivious of it now. i like to work from cafes so i get a lot more people approaching me and asking for a selfie but that is about the only disruption. you, until very recently, were based in vienna but you re tal
will allow you to go? for example, would you and your team undertake hacking 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 e mail accounts. you have never hacked in that way? we have used hacked material that has been provided, and pre hacked, and made publicly available to us and otherjournalists but we have not hacked ourselves, and certainly bellingcat hasn t. a final thought on this sort of digital detective work. what we live in right now is an era where ai, artificial intelligence, is changing many of the rules and changing the game in a sense when it