Runa Sandvik
@runasand.bsky.social
Founder of Granitt, securing journalists and at-risk people around the world.
My Journalist and Spy newsletter also mentions that Russian TV footage shows Pablo González hugging one of the men on the FBI’s most wanted list. For a deep dive into Oleg Sotnikov, check out this investigation by @theins.press. theins.ru/en/politics/...
Free Pablo and Fancy Bear: GRU illegal Pavel Rubtsov got a warm welcome home in Moscow by a hacker on the FBI Most Wanted List
In August 2024, the world witnessed an unprecedented prisoner swap between the West and the Kremlin: Russia agreed to release 16 individuals, including political prisoners Vladimir Kara-Murza and Ilya...
theins.ru
November 10, 2025 at 9:07 PM
My Journalist and Spy newsletter also mentions that Russian TV footage shows Pablo González hugging one of the men on the FBI’s most wanted list. For a deep dive into Oleg Sotnikov, check out this investigation by @theins.press. theins.ru/en/politics/...
In this video on YouTube, @christogrozev.bsky.social quickly summarizes Pablo González’s background and the prisoner exchange, focusing on what happened once Pablo stepped onto the tarmac in Moscow and shook hands with Putin. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-FU...
The Big Swap: The Spy Who Played Journalist
YouTube video by The Christo Files
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November 10, 2025 at 9:07 PM
In this video on YouTube, @christogrozev.bsky.social quickly summarizes Pablo González’s background and the prisoner exchange, focusing on what happened once Pablo stepped onto the tarmac in Moscow and shook hands with Putin. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-FU...
Pablo González was arrested in Poland in 2022, sent back to Moscow in 2024 in a prisoner exchange with the U.S. + EU. This book by Drew Hinshaw and Joe Parkinson details what it took to get Evan Gershkovich, Brittney Griner, Paul Whelan, Alsu Kurmasheva home. www.harpercollins.com/products/swa...
Swap
From the Wall Street Journal's award-winning international investigations team comes a spellbinding account of a spy war between the U.S. and Russia tha...
www.harpercollins.com
November 10, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Pablo González was arrested in Poland in 2022, sent back to Moscow in 2024 in a prisoner exchange with the U.S. + EU. This book by Drew Hinshaw and Joe Parkinson details what it took to get Evan Gershkovich, Brittney Griner, Paul Whelan, Alsu Kurmasheva home. www.harpercollins.com/products/swa...
My post about Pablo González for my Journalist and Spy newsletter quotes a number of solid investigations into his background, arrest, release, and alleged work for the GRU. Here’s @shaunwalker7.bsky.social’s article for @theguardian.com last year. www.theguardian.com/world/2024/o...
Journalist or Russian spy? The strange case of Pablo González
The long read: As a Spanish reporter, Pablo González charmed his way into Russian opposition circles and covered Putin’s wars. Then, in 2022, he was arrested on suspicion of espionage. Many former ass...
www.theguardian.com
November 10, 2025 at 9:06 PM
My post about Pablo González for my Journalist and Spy newsletter quotes a number of solid investigations into his background, arrest, release, and alleged work for the GRU. Here’s @shaunwalker7.bsky.social’s article for @theguardian.com last year. www.theguardian.com/world/2024/o...
While leading the internal investigation into the leak at Trenchant, voluntarily meeting with the FBI "multiple times," Peter Williams "signed a contract with the unnamed Russian company worth hundreds of thousands of dollars." You can't make this up. www.wired.com/story/peter-...
October 30, 2025 at 12:16 PM
While leading the internal investigation into the leak at Trenchant, voluntarily meeting with the FBI "multiple times," Peter Williams "signed a contract with the unnamed Russian company worth hundreds of thousands of dollars." You can't make this up. www.wired.com/story/peter-...
Who needs AI when we have you.
October 29, 2025 at 10:18 AM
Who needs AI when we have you.
Last week, the DOJ accused Peter Williams, a former Trenchant exec, of stealing “trade secrets from two unnamed companies” and “selling them to a buyer in Russia.” Unclear if related to the leak that @lorenzofb.bsky.social covered, but what's going on at LH3Harris? techcrunch.com/2025/10/23/u...
October 23, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Last week, the DOJ accused Peter Williams, a former Trenchant exec, of stealing “trade secrets from two unnamed companies” and “selling them to a buyer in Russia.” Unclear if related to the leak that @lorenzofb.bsky.social covered, but what's going on at LH3Harris? techcrunch.com/2025/10/23/u...
I have not! Thanks for the tip, I’ll dig into it!
October 20, 2025 at 6:20 PM
I have not! Thanks for the tip, I’ll dig into it!
No, that was a very short contract in the middle of the pandemic. Here’s why I’ve been up to since. techcrunch.com/2022/07/15/g...
Runa Sandvik's new startup Granitt secures at-risk people from hackers and nation states | TechCrunch
The Norwegian hacker talks about her new venture aimed at protecting journalists and critics from powerful adversaries.
techcrunch.com
October 8, 2025 at 7:22 PM
No, that was a very short contract in the middle of the pandemic. Here’s why I’ve been up to since. techcrunch.com/2022/07/15/g...
I followed the news in Norway, glad you’re doing ok!
August 21, 2025 at 2:49 PM
I followed the news in Norway, glad you’re doing ok!
No, L1, first jump after ground school.
August 12, 2025 at 10:04 AM
No, L1, first jump after ground school.