📅 Date: Saturday, 13 September 2025
⏰ Time: 09:00 – 13:00 CET
🌐 Format: Live Online Course
💶 Fee: €499
📜 Certificate of Completion & Exclusive Course Materials Provided
Overview
“OSINT in Russia” is a specialised, advanced training course designed for intelligence professionals, analysts, investigative journalists, compliance officers, and researchers working with Russian-language sources and data from the post-Soviet space.
This course provides a comprehensive and practical framework for Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) focusing on Russia and the broader Russian-speaking sphere. Participants will gain the tools, methodologies, and technical environment necessary to effectively collect, analyse, and interpret publicly available information in the Russian language.
Whether you are involved in geopolitical risk assessment, due diligence, academic research, or intelligence collection, this course will empower you with a unique operational capability in Russian-language OSINT—from mainstream news portals to the deep corners of the RuNet and social media ecosystems.
What Makes This Course Unique
This is the only course currently available that combines:
- Advanced OSINT techniques tailored for the Russian internet environment.
- A complete training on establishing your own Open Source Intelligence operating environment on an alternative, secure operating system.
- Hands-on strategies to overcome language-based barriers, including machine translation limitations and Cyrillic transliteration challenges.
- AI-powered methods and prompts that streamline investigation workflows and data classification tasks.
- Practical guidance on navigating information ecosystems across Russia and the post-Soviet region, including Central Asia, the Caucasus, Belarus, and Ukraine.
This course is indispensable for professionals requiring operational knowledge of Russian-language OSINT, delivered through an integrated and field-tested structure.
Course Objectives
By the end of the session, participants will be able to:
- Configure and deploy a personal OSINT research environment on an alternative operating system for enhanced security and efficiency.
- Perform targeted information searches across Russian search engines, media portals, and document archives.
- Access, verify, and interpret Russian corporate data, including ownership structures and due diligence indicators.
- Conduct digital footprint analysis and extract data from Russian social media platforms such as VKontakte, Odnoklassniki, and Telegram.
- Apply custom AI prompts to automate intelligence tasks, summarise complex texts, and organise multilingual datasets.
- Understand the linguistic, cultural, and political nuances essential to contextualising open-source data from Russia and neighbouring regions.
Key Modules
- Environment Setup & Privacy: Creating a dedicated OSINT virtual machine using open-source tools. Operational security and anonymity best practices.
- Russian Internet Ecosystem: Infrastructure, censorship dynamics, and accessing restricted content.
- Search Engine Mastery: Advanced operators on Google, Yandex, and alternative Russian platforms.
- Thematic Vocabulary Toolkit: Key political, economic, defence, and legal terms tailored for Russian-language OSINT.
- SOCMINT in the Russian Context: Profiling and mapping activities across Russian-language social networks.
- GEOINT for Russia: Analysing geospatial data with Russian mapping standards and location codes.
- Corporate and Financial Intelligence: Investigating Russian entities, ownership chains, and sanctions compliance.
Who Should Attend?
This masterclass is essential for:
- Intelligence analysts and geopolitical consultants
- Corporate due diligence professionals and compliance teams
- Investigative journalists and researchers in Russian/Eurasian affairs
- Government, defence, and law enforcement personnel
- Academic scholars focusing on Russia and post-Soviet regions
No prior Russian language proficiency is required. The course includes tailored glossaries and AI-enhanced tools to support non-native speakers.
Instructor
Dr Giuliano Bifolchi, Research Manager at SpecialEurasia, brings a wealth of practical experience in intelligence analysis across Eurasia, MENA, and Latin America. Holding a PhD in Islamic History and an academic foundation in International Relations and Security Studies, Dr Bifolchi offers both theoretical insight and field-proven intelligence methodology. His work bridges academia, fieldwork, and intelligence practice—ensuring an engaging and impactful learning experience.
Registration and Certification
Standard Rate: €499
Includes: Live session, certificate of completion, exclusive learning materials, glossary packs, AI prompt templates, and OSINT toolkits.
Reserve Your Spot Today
Enrol now to gain unrivalled expertise in Russian-language OSINT. Equip yourself with the tools, methodologies, and technological capabilities needed to thrive in complex information environments related to Russia and the post-Soviet world.
For enrolment, fill out this document and send us back at info@specialeurasia.com with your curriculum vitae.
