that's when journalists victoria arakelyan and jake tacchi made contact with three of the victims withidentifying the so—called "man in black". we'd heard this voice in the recording, and it was almost kind of taunting us, just talking about his total impunity, about how, you know, he'd get away with it, he had complete support of his superiors. and i think that was the point for us where we thought, "god, we've got to find this guy." despite not having a name or photograph to work with, arakelyan and tacchi, along with the young women, used a leaked database from a russian food delivery company, a string of archived social media accounts and a classified car advert to identify the man in black as ivan ryabov. what was so amazing about it was the maturity and the foresight that they had in telling their story and just the bravery that they showed. they didn't want to exist solely as victims, they wanted to take action and be involved in that process of unmasking the perpetrator. once the investigation was completed, arakelyan and tacchi enlisted the help of antoine schirer to give the

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