This is how you
undermine Russia.
Without firing a shot. Russia exports oil but cannot refine it alone. Its army runs on chemicals, components, and capital it cannot make for itself. We find those dependencies, and we name the firms that sell them to Moscow.
You do not need a war to set back a war machine.
Russia depends on the West
It pumps crude but cannot turn it into fuel without catalysts and additives produced at scale by only a handful of firms worldwide. Almost none of them are Russian.
We find the chokepoints
Treating sanctions evasion as the money laundering it is, we trace each dependency node by node — to the producer, the trader, and the shell company in between.
That becomes leverage
Every named enabler is a discrete target for sanctions and enforcement. Pressure that costs no soldiers, and that the Kremlin cannot counter at scale.
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Your gift goes directly to the analysts, attorneys, and open-source investigators who map these supply chains and name the next target. Every dollar funds research the Kremlin cannot counter at scale and the West cannot do without.
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Named producers. Real enforcement targets.
Our first study, Vulnerabilities in the Russian Chemical Industry, traces the four-firm chokepoints in Russia's oil-refining and lubricant chain. The same method applies anywhere a hostile state relies on materials it cannot make.
When Newsweek revealed that an Indian conglomerate had shipped half a million kilograms of refinery catalysts to Russia, the investigation drew on data shared with The Dekleptocracy Project and our translation of Russia's priority chemicals list.
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The cheapest leverage the West has is knowing exactly what Russia cannot replace. Help us find the next chokepoint.
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