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A leaked trove of Russian documents called "The Dark Side of the Kremlin" is so huge that no one seems to know everything it contains, the New York Times reports.
Transparency advocates leaked the mammoth 175-gigabyte stash at Distributed Denial of Secrets and the Internet Archive, culling it mostly from sites across Russia, Ukraine, and other countries. But now it's all in one place for people to read: "Our motive is to collect and make available materials for a subject that was very underexplored—Russian power circles, how they interconnect, their influence operations," says Boston transparency advocate and reporter Emma Best. "People have a cursory understanding of that, but outside of a few experts it hasn't been looked at in detail and contextualized."
What we know: The trove includes documents on Kremlin ties to the Russian Orthodox Church, oligarchs' business deals, inside dope on Russian arms deals, and the results of a "hacking spree" against Russians who allegedly lied about the downing of a Malaysia Airlines passenger plane in Ukraine in 2014. Read more