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
that is a large scale process of scraping data, validating, geolocating these particular photographs that may appear on twitter or on telegram or on facebook, preserving them in such a way that there is a chain of custody trail because that is what future courts will want to have. many people are doing this sort of gathering evidence and compiling it and preparing briefs but bellingcat has a tradition in testing judicially whether some of this evidence can hold up in court. and in particular we know how to preserve the chain of evidence, and that is what bellingcat is doing somewhat differently. one fascinating example of work you have done, you ve spent a lot of time trying to identify the 30 or more military engineers, i think they are described as, the people who are responsible for the launching of cruise missiles, some of which we know