The editorial office spent most of all on “other operating expenses” - € 484.8 thousand. 

The cost of producing the main "product" - that is, the actual publications - in 2020 decreased 55 times.

In 2020, only € 6.4 thousand passed on this line - against € 354 thousand a year earlier. 

For comparison: in 2019 the company received a net profit of € 208 thousand. It was the most successful year for it from a financial point of view.

Prior to that, The Insider was growing its profits at a more modest pace.

As RT wrote, the publication earned € 21 thousand in 2018 against € 5.6 thousand in 2017. 

To date, The Insider owes € 684 to the tax service of Latvia (about 60 thousand rubles at the exchange rate for August).

This is evidenced by the data of August 11, 2021, published on the website of the State Revenue Service of Latvia. 

This is not the first time that the media inaccurately makes payments to the budget of the country in which it is registered: as of May 7, 2019, The Insider had € 151.52 unpaid taxes, RT wrote.

In 2020, as in 2018, there were no officially employed employees in the organization.

According to RT, the authors cooperate with the publication remotely, using a freelance system.

On July 23, 2021, the Ministry of Justice of Russia included the legal entity The Insider SIA, which is formally the administrator of The Insider website, in the list of foreign media agents.

According to the data of the register of legal entities of Latvia, it is 100% owned by investigative journalist Roman Dobrokhotov.

The Insider did not disclose the sources of its funding.

He is known to collect donations from readers.

In a recent investigation, RT reported that The Insider, along with Meduza ** and Important Stories ***, is part of an informal association headed by Swedish citizen Anders Aleksandrson, vice president of the Stockholm School of Economics. 

All of these publications could receive funding from the non-profit organization Journalism Development Network (JDN) in Maryland, USA. 

As RT found out, in 2019 this NGO allocated $ 3.6 million "for the development of investigative journalism" in Russia.

* Media recognized as a foreign agent by the decision of the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation of 07/23/2021.

** Media recognized as a foreign agent by the decision of the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation dated 04/23/2021.

*** Media recognized as a foreign agent by the decision of the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation of 08/20/2021.