Nikolay Staykov

Nikolay Staykov is a journalist, editor and OSINT trainer with a background in economics, specialising in anti-corruption, financial and international trade investigations. Nikolay is co-founder of ACF, Bulgaria’s leading anti-corruption NGO. In 2021, he was recognised by the US Department of State as a Global Anti-Corruption Champion. Since 2022, Nikolay has focused on researching Russia’s military industry and its sanctions-evasion networks. As part of a UK Ukraine–Bulgaria research team, he contributed to ‘Ore to Ordnance’, an in-depth study of Russia’s artillery cluster published by RUSI and the Open Source Center in London in 2024.