Alla Konstantinova
Alla Konstantinova was selected for the 2023 Shortlist with She lost consciousness as it was happening and she’s actually grateful she did.” What we know about the rapes perpetrated in Ukraine by Russian soldiers.
Alla Konstantinova (34) before the start of the Russia’s invasion of Ukraine lived in a small Russian town called Petrozavodsk. She worked as a regional journalist and was a reporter of at small media outlet Mediazona focused on human rights affairs and police brutality. In September 2019, she wrote an article for Mediazonа about regular practice of torturing prisoners at local Correctional Colony No. 9 Petrozavodsk. Konstantinova was harassed by the prison warden and received threats from one of the colony officers during her investigation. That story was selected as runner-up for the 2020 European Press Prize The Investigative Reporting Award https://www.europeanpressprize.com/article/prisoners-of-a-penal-colony-tell-of-torture/. The head of the Colony No. 9 and his deputy were convicted only in February 2023. They were sentenced to seven years in prison.
In March 2022 Konstantinova left Russia because of the anti-war stance and possible threat of persecution, now she is in Lithuania. A month later she was included on the «foreign agents» list compiled by Russia’s Justice Ministry. In Russia, the term «foreign agent» is tantamount «traitor» or «spy». Konstantinova refuses to comply with the requirements of the Ministry of Justice and keeps writing about the war in Ukraine.
Russian Asset Tracker
OCCRP and the Guardian were selected for the 2023 Shortlist with ‘Russian Asset Tracker’.
Russian Asset Tracker is a project led by OCCRP and the Guardian. Find more information about the team members and journalists who directly contributed to the investigation below.
Reporting, Writing, and Editing
Juliette Garside is deputy business editor of the Guardian and the Observer
Simon Goodley is an investigative reporter at the Guardian
Kalyeena Makortoff is the banking correspondent at the Guardian
Antonio Baquero is Europe editor at OCCRP
Lara Dihmis is a researcher/reporter at OCCRP
Alex Dziadosz is an editor at OCCRP
Jared Ferrie is an editor at OCCRP
Brian Fitzpatrick is an editor at OCCRP
Kevin Hall is North America editor at OCCRP
Ilya Lozovsky is a senior writer at OCCRP
Eli Moskowitz is an investigative journalist at OCCRP
Will Neal is a journalist
Stelios Orphanides is an investigative journalist
Miranda Patrucic is editor in chief of OCCRP
Olesya Shmagun is an investigative reporter at OCCRP
Graham Stack is an editor at OCCRP
Tom Stocks is a senior investigator at OCCRP
Drew Sullivan is publisher of OCCRP
Julia Wallace is deputy editor in chief at OCCRP
Jonny Wrate is an investigative reporter at OCCRP
Data
Jan Strozyk is chief data editor at OCCRP
Research
Lara Dihmis is a reporter/researcher at OCCRP
Misha Gagarin is a researcher at OCCRP
Karina Shedrofsky is head of research at OCCRP
Alina Tsogoeva is a researcher at OCCRP
Fact-Checking
Ivana Jeremić is a fact checker at OCCRP
Olena LaFoy is a fact checker at OCCRP
Bojana Pavlović is a fact checker at OCCRP
Dima Stoianov is a fact checker at OCCRP
Media and Research Partners
Anti-Corruption Data Collective, Bird.bg (Bulgaria), Delfi Estonia, Follow the Money (Netherlands), Forbes (USA), Frontstory.pl (Poland), The Guardian (UK), infoLibre (Spain), Inside Story (Greece), Investigative Center of Jan Kuciak (Slovakia), Investigace.cz (Czech Republic), IrpiMedia (Italy), MANS (Montenegro), Miami Herald (USA), Le Monde (France), NDR (Germany), Oštro (Slovenia/Croatia), profil (Austria), Re:Baltica, Reporter.lu (Luxembourg), Siena.lt (Lithuania), SVT (Sweden), Tamedia (Switzerland), De Tijd (Belgium), Transparency International UK
Use of Leaked Data
We would like to thank the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) for allowing us to draw on the Panama Papers, the Pandora Papers, the Paradise Papers, and the FinCEN Files for this research. Both the Panama Papers and the Paradise Papers were leaked to German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung and explored in collaborative projects led by ICIJ. The FinCEN Files were obtained by BuzzFeed News, which helped coordinate a project with ICIJ in 2020 that delved into the files. ICIJ obtained the Pandora Papers and shared them with media partners around the world.
Translation
Romina Colman is Latin America data editor at OCCRP
Ilia Donskikh is the Russian website managing editor at OCCRP
Nathan Jaccard is a Latin America editor at OCCRP
Design and Graphics
James O’Brien is head of web at OCCRP
Edin Pašović is a design editor at OCCRP
Interactive and Web
Mark Nightingale is head of journalism products at OCCRP