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OPERBAZA.ORG OSINT / COMPLIANCE REGISTRY

Cross-Registry Open-Source Intelligence Synthesis System (OSINT Data Fusion): linking disparate Russian and Ukrainian state registries, botfarm graphs, GEOINT, and sanctions databases into a single chain of evidence

Synthesis Formula (How disparate open data yields new analytical quality)
01 · VPK & SANCTIONS ANATOMY [/vpk]
→ Precision Targeting & Sanctions Blind Spots
02 · RF MILITARY LOGISTICS, POWS & RESIDENCY [/z]
→ Deconstructing Cover Stories, RF Forces Financing & FSB Networks
03 · MOLES IN EDR & IPSO PROOF OF INTENT (ART. 111 CCU) [/edr]
→ Exposing Sleeper Assets & Deliberate Coordination with the Enemy
UA EN
Profiled Targets
76
[RED: 54] · [BLUE: 22] · [NBU #65: 47]
ROC / FSB Network (EDR + FNS)
74 / 26
74 active UA EDRPOU · Rosatom · SBU
Certified Bots (UID)
1839
FB homoglyphs, 615-UIDs, YT ru-RU
RU Defense Plants (VPK)
202
9 weapon chains · 369 execs unsanctioned
Investigations
37
PsyOps & network forensics
Matrix Nodes / Edges
201 / 151
Botfarm amplification & RU state media
[OPERBAZA TRADECRAFT · OSINT METHODOLOGY & AI INTELLIGENCE] EXPORT /en/methods.json

TRADECRAFT & METHODS: ENGINEERING HYGIENE, BOT DETECTION & PSYOP ANATOMY

Field essays, the engineering litmus test against humanities posturing, homoglyph forensics, and technical dissections of Russian information operations

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[ENGINEERING CREDO OF OPEN VERIFICATION · CROSS-REGISTRY SYNTHESIS DOCTRINE] OPEN-SOURCE PEER AUDIT // PRIMARY REGISTRIES

“We claim no infallibility and cannot physically cover a scope of this magnitude alone—let alone without a single error. Our purpose is to demonstrate open-source cross-registry analysis in action. We genuinely welcome anyone who audits these datasets, flags inaccuracies with primary sources, and builds larger, sharper, and better pipelines using cross-registry synthesis.”

[PINNED // ENGINEERING LITMUS TEST] ENGINEERING HYGIENE 6 MIN READ
2026-11-05 · M-01

The TL;DR Poseur Diagnosis: Why Calling Yourself an Engineer While Refusing to Read Long-Form Evidence Exposes an Anykey Tourist

How a single smug comment — "I do not read walls of text" — instantly separates real systems engineers raised on IETF RFCs, kernel logs, and man pages from accidental IT tourists who entered the industry for beanbags and oat-milk lattes, and why a 280-character attention span makes them prime biological vectors for Russian PSYOPs.

Read full methodology & case study → /en/methods/tldr-anykey-poseurs-manifesto
TECHNICAL KITCHEN / CHALLENGE 15 MIN READ
2026-11-07 · M-20

'The Brussels Ricochet': Consolidated Audit of 12 Unliquidated Russian Corporate Clusters in Ukraine's Live State Registry (EDR UO.xml) and 15 Active YouTube Mirrors of NSDC-Sanctioned Subjects under European Commission DG NEAR (Ukraine Facility Regulation 2024/792, Chapters 23/24) and DG FISMA (AMLD UBO) Benchmarks

Itemized compliance matrix of 27 live-monitored regulatory blind-spot indicators as of November 2026: 12 corporate clusters in the live UO.xml of the Ministry of Justice of Ukraine (27 active legal entities by EDRPOU code — from Bucha-district LLC Sviatopetrivskyi Kvartal 45945891 registered on 2026-01-06 to a 100% Russian Federation citizen, Rostec subsidiary 31351836, and Rosatom/TVEL joint venture 37705342 to unenforced HACC confiscation judgments No. 991/661/24 on V. Bohuslaiev 37617817 and No. 991/3157/22 on V. Yevtushenkov 00216757, defense Prozorro contractors with active FNS RF TINs 37386100 and 36676494, and the 2026-09-29 injunction blocking ARMA in Case No. 160/30983/26) alongside 15 unblocked YouTube mirrors (availableCountryCodes: UA) of subjects designated under 20 NSDC Presidential Decrees.

Read full methodology & case study → /en/methods/method-20-brussels-ricochet-eu-near-fisma-edr-sanctions-audit-2026
BOT DETECTION 16 MIN READ
2026-11-07 · M-21

EU Digital Services Act (Regulation (EU) 2022/2065, Articles 34, 35 & 40) & DISARM Framework Technical FIMI / CIB Report: Forensic Evidence Matrix of 1,839 Russian Bot Accounts (Facebook 615... UIDs, .XXXXXX Batch Autoregs, Unicode Homoglyphs, YouTube ru-RU Pool, Selective Moderation Schedule & Synchronous TASS / RIA Novosti Relays)

Structured forensic audit of Coordinated Inauthentic Behavior (CIB) and Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference (FIMI) as of November 2026: 1,839 verified Russian bot accounts (1,434 YouTube channels registered under Russian ru-RU OS locale suffixes -[U+044A]/-[U+044B]/-[U+044D], 189 six-digit .XXXXXX and .2025 batch autoregs, 78 Facebook numeric UIDs in series 615..., 63 Cyrillic-Latin Unicode homoglyph obfuscators and raw CSV templates, 117 cross-thread bridge bots across 24 dossiers), a 5-stage selective moderation pipeline, and 33 documented episodes of synchronous syndication by EU-sanctioned Russian state media (FSUE MIA Rossiya Segodnya / RIA Novosti / Ukraina.ru, TASS, Lenta.ru).

Read full methodology & case study → /en/methods/method-21-eu-dsa-fimi-cib-forensic-report-meta-google-dg-connect-2026
BOT DETECTION 14 MIN READ
2026-11-07 · M-22

14 of 14 Borshchahivka Torpedoes Alive After 5 Days: Why Billion-Hryvnia Telecom SORM Boxes Are Blind in Telegram and How to Block Nomadic Provocateurs by MTProto UID for Free

Engineering audit as of November 7, 2026 (Day 5 after the November 2, 2026 kinetic-information provocation at the temporary staging point of 1st NGU Corps 'Azov' Unit 3121 in Petropavlivska Borshchahivka and the November 4, 2026 road blockades in Kyiv): 100% (14 of 14) of named Telegram seeding and cross-district riot torpedoes remain active and unblocked, while 8 unnamed fresh zero-accounts (UID series 78.../79.../88.../89...) freely post direct incitement to burn police vehicles and assault law enforcement officers in Kyiv mega-channel comment threads. We publish a technical breakdown of telecom SORM/DPI blindness against MTProto 2.0 encryption alongside the open machine-readable stop-feed /feeds/telegram-nomadic-torpedoes.json for zero-cost 0.1 ms automated blocking.

Read full methodology & case study → /en/methods/method-22-borshchahivka-14-torpedoes-sorm-blindness-mtproto-uid-filter-2026
TECHNICAL KITCHEN / CHALLENGE 11 MIN READ
2026-11-07 · M-23

"Please State Your Postal Code While the Enemy Operates": Why Soviet-Style Bureaucrats Hide Behind the 1996 Citizens' Appeals Law — and Why You Must Write Directly to Their Western Donors

A field guide to applied bureaucratic anthropology: how a 1996 fax-era statute became a shield against ex officio national security duties, why the state extracts your taxes in 200 milliseconds without a paper petition, and how a single DKIM-signed refusal email becomes Exhibit A for European Union auditors (OLAF, EPPO, ECA, DG CONNECT, Tallinn Mechanism).

Read full methodology & case study → /en/methods/soviet-postal-code-shield-write-to-western-donors-2026
TECHNICAL KITCHEN / CHALLENGE 12 MIN READ
2026-11-07 · M-24

A $2,000 Engineer and an Agent Swarm vs. Six Floors of Sour-Faced Mandarins: Why an Autonomous Pipeline Replaces State Oversight—and Where the Paper-Pushers Are Headed in Two Years

Engineering economics of 2026: how three autonomous agent nodes on bare metal replace three hundred chancellery offices in 60 seconds, why the bureaucracy fears transparent efficiency metrics more than the GRU, and why the paper floors face the fiscal knife within 24 months.

Read full methodology & case study → /en/methods/engineer-2000-agent-swarm-vs-six-floors-bureaucracy-2026
OSINT BLIND SPOTS 9 MIN READ
2026-11-06 · M-15

Metrological Self-Incrimination: How Russia's State Registry FGIS Arshin Exposes Factory Serial Numbers of German, Japanese, British, and US Precision Instruments Inside Active Su-34M, Su-30SM2, and Kinzhal Missile Workshops

Western precision metrology and RF test-equipment manufacturers routinely assure export-control regulators that once an instrument leaves a third-country distributor, its ultimate end-user cannot be verified. Yet under Russian Federal Law No. 102-FZ 'On Ensuring the Uniformity of Measurements' and Ministry of Defense military acceptance standards (VP MO RF), every Russian aircraft, missile, and armored-vehicle plant is legally required to publish the exact factory serial numbers (mi_number), model designations, 2025-2026 calibration dates, certificate numbers (result_docnum), and internal laboratory owners (miOwner) of its foreign measuring instruments in the open federal database FGIS Arshin (fgis.gost.ru). We examine 148 verified serial-numbered instruments from Mahr GmbH, Mitutoyo Corporation, Carl Zeiss AG, Fluke Corporation, and Renishaw plc operating across 14 Russian defense plants and military metrology institutes.

Read full methodology & case study → /en/methods/method-15-fgis-arshin-rosstandart-serial-numbers-vpk-metrology
OSINT BLIND SPOTS 9 MIN READ
2026-11-06 · M-16

Rostrud State Employment API Self-Disclosure (opendata.trudvsem.ru): How Mandatory Russian Labor Filings Expose Exact Siemens Sinumerik, Heidenhain, Fanuc CNC Controls, DMG Mori, Mazak, Sodick Machines & Western CAD/EDA in Active VPK Workshops

Under Article 53 of Russian Federal Law No. 565-FZ of December 12, 2023 ('On Employment in the Russian Federation'), every Russian military-industrial complex (VPK) plant and state design bureau is legally required to publish its active shop-floor and engineering vacancies on the Federal Service for Labor and Employment (Rostrud) unified portal 'Rabota Rossii' (trudvsem.ru). Through the state portal's open REST API (opendata.trudvsem.ru/api/v1/vacancies), HR and manufacturing engineering departments across Rostec, Almaz-Antey, UAC, UEC, KTRV, and Roscosmos enterprises self-disclose in structured JSON their 10-digit tax IDs (INN), exact workshop street addresses, shop numbers, inventory models of Western and Japanese CNC machine tools (Siemens SINUMERIK, HEIDENHAIN, FANUC, DMG MORI, Yamazaki Mazak, Okuma, Sodick, Haas), and industrial engineering software (Siemens NX, SolidWorks, Altium Designer, Ansys). We examine 28 verified Russian defense manufacturing clusters as of November 2026.

Read full methodology & case study → /en/methods/method-16-rostrud-trudvsem-cnc-cad-vpk-workshops
OSINT BLIND SPOTS 14 MIN READ
2026-11-06 · M-17

Cross-Registry Audit of Western Scientific Databases (OpenAlex / Crossref / ORCID / IEEE / Springer Nature / Elsevier + DFG & EU Horizon Grants) × Active Designers of Sanctioned Russian Defense & Nuclear R&D Institutes (2024–2026)

How 21 sanctioned Russian nuclear-warhead, hypersonic, missile, and radar research institutes (RFNC-VNIIEF Sarov, RFNC-VNIITF Snezhinsk, VNIIA Dukhov, IAP RAS, TsAGI, CIAM, VIAM, GosNIIAS, CSRI Elektropribor, NPP Istok, Concern Sozvezdie) published 3,304 peer-reviewed papers through Western publishers in 2024–2026 while maintaining dual affiliations in France (CNRS / ESPCI Paris / ONERA), active German DFG (No. 471089264), French ANR (No. 725-23-42), and EU Horizon 2020 funding citations, joint projects with Chinese military centers (CARDC, NWPU, BIT, NJUST), and access to Western CAD suites (ANSYS Fluent, CST Studio Suite, COMSOL, SolidWorks).

Read full methodology & case study → /en/methods/method-17-western-scitech-publishers-grants-vpk-konstruktory-2024-2026
OSINT BLIND SPOTS 15 MIN READ
2026-11-06 · M-18

Cross-Registry Audit of EU Public Procurement (TED API v3, Article 5k of EU Regulation 833/2014) & Brussels Lobbying (EU Transparency Register) × European Subsidiaries of Russian VPK & Commodity Holdings (2024–2026)

How Bulgaria's Kozloduy NPP awarded 11 direct contracts (>32.63M EUR) in 2025–2026 to Moscow-based JSC Rosatom Service (OGRN 1117746845523, including TED 466972-2025 and 127496-2026 procuring parts manufactured by US/UK-sanctioned Russian nuclear warhead assembly plant FGUP PSZ in ZATO Trekhgorny INN 7405000428 and JSC OKB Gidropress INN 5036092340), the Bulgarian Ministry of Defence signed a 20.84M EUR jet fuel contract on 18.08.2026 (TED 586041-2026) with 100% LUKOIL subsidiary LUKOIL Aviation Bulgaria EOOD (EIK 175015362), Romanian state railways CFR Calatori and Romgaz awarded 15 contracts worth 95.64M RON (~19.22M EUR) to LUKOIL entities (RO19737772 / RO10547022), and 15 active EU Transparency Register profiles with 57 European Parliament passes lobby in Brussels for NLMK Belgium Holdings, EuroChem Group AG (against Regulation EU 2025/1227), Kaspersky Labs GmbH, Aughinish Alumina (RUSAL), Nornickel Finland Oy, and Moscow-based AEB.

Read full methodology & case study → /en/methods/method-18-eu-ted-public-procurement-art5k-brussels-lobby-2024-2026
OSINT BLIND SPOTS 16 MIN READ
2026-11-06 · M-19

European, UK, Swiss, NATO & UAE Corporate and Real-Estate Safe Haven of Russian VPK Executives: Cross-Registry Screening of 364 Unsanctioned Defense Plant Directors Across 14 Jurisdictions (>1.83B EUR, 2026)

Primary-source screening of 364 unsanctioned directors and chief engineers of Russian defense plants (118 with verified 12-digit FNS personal TINs) across corporate and land registries in the UK, Czechia, France, Germany, Switzerland, Spain, Belgium, Denmark, Italy, Austria, Cyprus, Montenegro, Serbia, and the UAE: 27 verified dossiers (from UK companies ELASTOMER TRADING LTD 05763152 of V.A. Belikov and VSMPO TIRUS LTD 03821218 to Czech firms Prag Red Star s.r.o. ICO 28367588 of P.D. Motrenko and GN BELIGAN s.r.o. ICO 26119269 of A.B. Babikov, German Ruspolymet GmbH HRB 81356 and P-D Glasseiden GmbH Oschatz HRB 21085, and French POWERJET SA SIREN 434020822, SCI OLARA SIREN 528708076, and NLMK STRASBOURG SAS SIREN 425125150) plus the 10-entry homonym disambiguation log.

Read full methodology & case study → /en/methods/method-19-eu-uk-swiss-corporate-safe-haven-unsanctioned-vpk-directors-2026
BOT DETECTION 8 MIN READ
2026-11-05 · M-02

The 15-Second Bot X-Ray: A Field Checklist for Spotting Industrial Troll Farms Across Facebook, YouTube, and Telegram

An inside view from our AI counter-disinformation pipeline after dissecting hundreds of comment threads: how the "15% arsonist rule" hijacks human psychology, why a single operator in Penza running 50 Dolphin{anty} tabs at 15 cents a paste can exhaust thousands of real readers, and how to expose synthetic personas in 15 seconds via Latin homoglyphs, CSV import headers, UID 615... series, and YouTube ru-RU locale suffixes.

Read full methodology & case study → /en/methods/bot-xray-15-seconds-guide
OSINT BLIND SPOTS 9 MIN READ
2026-11-05 · M-03

Why the "Red-Arrow" OSINT Crowd Is Losing to the Industrial Conveyor: From Dolphin{anty} Cloud Farms and MTProto doc_id Hashes to Russian Defense Clone Entities

An engineering post-mortem of four systemic blind spots in contemporary open-source intelligence: why hunting physical SIM boxes and running keyword dashboards misses dual-use cloud botnets, 27-minute binary MTProto file transfers to TASS, numeric UID beacons across renamed accounts, SendAsPeer proxy masks, and 2024–2026 Russian defense plant clones in the Federal Tax Service registry.

Read full methodology & case study → /en/methods/osint-blind-spots-red-arrows
PSYOP ANATOMY 8 MIN READ
2026-11-05 · M-04

The KPI Economics of Khoroshevskoe Shosse: How Social-Media Panic Keeps GRU Unit 54777 Majors Out of the Pokrovsk Tree Lines

Inside the bureaucratic survival math of Russia’s 72nd Main Intelligence Info-Center (Unit 54777), the FSB’s 5th Service, and the Oculus/Vepr monitoring systems: why 15 minutes of screenshotting Ukrainian comment-section hysteria equals 5 to 6 stormtrooper casualties on the 162-second frontline timer, and how domestic defeatist pundits act as an unpaid union shielding Moscow desk officers from infantry transfer.

Read full methodology & case study → /en/methods/khoroshevskoe-shosse-kpi-economics
AI & INFO WARFARE 9 MIN READ
2026-11-05 · M-05

The AI Firmware Wars: Crash-Testing Qwen3-30B ("The Ideal Tourist from Mugla" and the Xi Jinping Loop), Portal Kombat RAG Poisoning, and 4 Rules of Cognitive Antiseptic

An adult engineering briefing on why myths about "omnipotent uncensored local distillates" collapse upon contact with a Turkish botnet warmup ring and Xi Jinping’s surname, how Moscow and Beijing poison consumer LLMs via RLHF and the 190-site Portal Kombat / Pravda network, and what separates consumer chat-vacuums from hawkish DeepMind / Palantir + Mandiant stacks.

Read full methodology & case study → /en/methods/ai-firmware-wars-portal-kombat
OSINT BLIND SPOTS 8 MIN READ
2026-11-05 · M-06

The Price of the "White Coat" in Intelligence: CIA Operation Rubicon (Crypto AG), How Oat-Milk Activists Killed Project Dragonfly, and Why They Blinded the World Before Wuhan

Why strategic intelligence does not operate by kindergarten rules: how the CIA and BND read the encrypted traffic of 120 nations for half a century via Swiss-fronted Crypto AG, how Silicon Valley moralizers blinded US intelligence inside China right before the late-2019 Wuhan outbreak by killing Project Dragonfly, and why sanctimonious AI safety filters disarm Western defense today.

Read full methodology & case study → /en/methods/white-coat-intelligence-dragonfly
ENGINEERING HYGIENE 7 MIN READ
2026-11-05 · M-07

You Are Not Writing a Prompt — You Are Rigging Stage Lighting: Why Most Users Hammer Nails with an Electron Microscope (The Physics of Softmax vs. Prompt-Grifter Spells)

Why hoarding "magic prompts" from online courses fails basic mathematics: how the Softmax normalization inside Self-Attention caps total model attention at exactly 1.0, how Context Dilution and Lost in the Middle degrade analytical precision, and the three "Clean Stage" rules that govern our autonomous intelligence pipeline.

Read full methodology & case study → /en/methods/stage-lighting-not-prompting
PSYOP ANATOMY 12 MIN READ
2026-11-05 · M-08

Debunking the "Weak NATO" Studio Myths: Steppe vs. Forest Physics, 30 Russian Refineries in 72 Hours, Permanent 750 kV Blackout, the 2026 Iran Calculus, and "Collar the Lot!"

A comprehensive engineering dismantling of studio-pundit defeatism through the lenses of infantry physics, high-voltage grid architecture, cyber warfare, and wartime law: why peace-scripted exercises at Hohenfels omit NATO airpower, how two transformer plants and BGP routing can brick Russia in 24 hours, why Washington kept its foot on the brake in Iran ahead of the November 3, 2026 midterms, and what awaits Russian diaspora agitators under the active US Alien Enemies Act of 1798.

Read full methodology & case study → /en/methods/weak-nato-blogger-myths-physics
OSINT BLIND SPOTS 9 MIN READ
2026-11-05 · M-09

Coroners with a Red MS Paint Marker: Why the Media "OSINT Scene" Draws Boxes Around Yesterday’s Soot While Clone Entities for Iskander Fuel and Lancet Drones Walk Free

A ruthless dissection of the self-congratulatory OSINT influencer club (both domestic and Western X/Twitter celebrities): how grant-funded analysts turned intelligence into post-mortem MS Paint illustration, why they refuse to cross-reference four open registries (Russia’s Federal Tax Service EGRUL, procurement ledgers, customs manifests, and 110 kV substation topologies), and how OFAC, EU, and UK sanctions bureaucrats proudly sanction dead signboards while 2024–2026 missile-fuel and drone clone entities operate with zero Western restrictions.

Read full methodology & case study → /en/methods/red-marker-coroners-osint-party
TECHNICAL KITCHEN / CHALLENGE 8 MIN READ
2026-11-05 · M-10

€25/month vs. The "All-Seeing Agency": Why a Basic European Linux VPS and Straight Engineering Hands Outpace Multimillion-Dollar Intelligence Bureaucracies in 2026

An open, unapologetic challenge to domestic and Western intelligence bureaucracies, sanctions directorates (OFAC, OFSI, EU), and seven-figure Washington and Brussels think tanks: how the myth of the "all-seeing secret supercomputer" collapsed, and why the real entry barrier to industrial-grade counter-intelligence in 2026 has dropped to €25/month (the cost of a basic European Linux VPS), clean Python scripts, and zero six-month procurement tenders.

Read full methodology & case study → /en/methods/two-hundred-bucks-vs-intelligence-giants
PSYOP ANATOMY 9 MIN READ
2026-11-05 · M-11

From a Decommissioned Mykolaiv Ambulance for 107,000 UAH to the Floor of the German Bundestag in 24 Hours: Forensic Dissection of the 'Borshchahivka -> Matryoshka -> AfD' FIMI Conveyor

How a failed $7,000 bribe attempt to extract 52nd Forge Regiment AWOL fugitive Andrii Kuleshov and Valentyna Moloda's 107,000 UAH commercial stunt in a resold Med-Prestyzh ambulance (38086393) traveled within 24 hours through single-use MTProto paratroopers in Kyiv suburb chats, morphed via the Kremlin's Matryoshka bot network into 10+ counterfeit France 24 and Euronews broadcasts, and landed on the X feed of AfD co-leader Alice Weidel during the Ukrainian President's visit to Berlin.

Read full methodology & case study → /en/methods/borshchahivka-matryoshka-bundestag-fimi-conveyor
OSINT BLIND SPOTS 8 MIN READ
2026-11-05 · M-12

An 'AAA' Green Stamp on a Kh-101 Cruise Missile: How ESG Arbiters Sustainalytics, MSCI, and ISS Shield VPK Chip and CNC Suppliers Under ESMA Regulation (EU) 2024/3005

On 2 July 2026, Regulation (EU) 2024/3005 entered into application under direct ESMA supervision, and on 2 November 2026 the authorisation application window closed for Sustainalytics B.V. (ESMA Art. 51 Entry #7, LEI 724500QWHV1ZPN8MTA36), MSCI Solutions (Deutschland) GmbH (Entry #5, LEI 254900F0YXSTFWUOFL76), and ISS Germany AG (Entry #22, LEI 391200XML1TCYHZ9NZ87). Using their own Annex III disclosures, we dissect how 12 public CHPL chipmakers and 5-axis CNC builders supplying Russian missile and tank factories retain MSCI AAA/AA, ISS Prime, and Sustainalytics Low Risk scores inside European SFDR Article 8/9 funds.

Read full methodology & case study → /en/methods/esg-blindness-esma-2024-3005
OSINT BLIND SPOTS 9 MIN READ
2026-11-05 · M-13

Amsterdam's BGP Router for Iskanders and Rostec: How RIPE NCC (KvK 40539632) Dismisses 90.12% of Sanctions Alerts and Signs RPKI ROAs for Russian VPK and Occupied Melitopol Telecom

On 22 October 2026, the Amsterdam-based Regional Internet Registry RIPE NCC (Stationsplein 11, KvK 40539632) published its Q4 2026 Quarterly Sanctions Transparency Report (RIPE-868): out of 2,339 EU/OFAC sanctions alerts since April 2022, 2,108 (90.12%) were dismissed, and the Russian Federation accounts for a microscopic 0.32% (15,616 out of 4,850,688) of frozen IPv4 addresses. Using primary records from rest.db.ripe.net and live BGP/RPKI telemetry, we demonstrate how IT and telecom subsidiaries of EU-sanctioned Russian defense holdings (Rostec, Rosatom, Almaz-Antey, KTRV, UAC, USC, VGTRK, ANO Dialog, Zvezda, TsNIIMash) and occupied Melitopol telecom hold 35 ASNs and 117,024 unfrozen IPv4 addresses in Amsterdam valued at $2.22 million.

Read full methodology & case study → /en/methods/ripe-ncc-amsterdam-vpk-ipv4-sanctions-blindness
OSINT BLIND SPOTS 10 MIN READ
2026-11-05 · M-14

Munich Patents for Rosatom and Italian Counsel for Su-34 Engines: How 14 Western Patent Law Firms Service Russian Defense and Nuclear Holdings Under EU Regulation 833/2014 (Articles 5s & 5n) and US OFAC GL 31

On 24 June 2024, the European Union enacted Article 5s of Council Regulation (EU) No 833/2014 (via Regulation (EU) 2024/1745), prohibiting intellectual property offices from accepting patent and trademark filings from Russian entities and obligating EU Member States to enforce this ban at the European Patent Office (EPO in Munich). A primary-source audit of the EPO, DPMA (as of 05.11.2026), EUIPO in Alicante, UK EPC designations in London, and the USPTO in Alexandria reveals that 14 Western and EPC patent law firms across 8 jurisdictions actively maintain 46 patents and trademarks for Rostec and Rosatom holdings (JSC UEC, Concern Kalashnikov, VSMPO-AVISMA, JSC TVEL, PAO NZHK, PJSC MSZ Elektrostal) — including Unitary Patent EP 3 961 659 B1, 2024–2026 EPO grants (EP 4 339 966 B1 on 22.07.2026), and 2024–2025 US patents (US 12,325,907 B2 on 10.06.2025) granted to OFAC-SDN-blocked entities.

Read full methodology & case study → /en/methods/method-14-epo-euipo-uspto-patent-attorneys-sanctions-loophole