These are resources we have read ourselves and consider worth your time — an investigation, a body of primary documents, a perspective that is difficult to find elsewhere. What they have in common is not a shared position but that each one shows its work.
TruthFocus is independent and is not the official channel of any organization. Every entry links to primary material rather than to our summary of it, so you can read it and judge for yourself.
Anti-Cult Networks & Freedom of Belief
2 resourcesAn investigative platform documenting the activities of organized anti-cult networks and their effects on individuals, organizations and democratic institutions. Its value is the archive: case files, archived press, and primary correspondence, most of it published in full rather than summarized.
actfiles.orgA daily magazine on religious liberty and human rights, launched in 2018 to report on religious persecution in China and covering religious liberty worldwide since December 2020. Its editor is a sociologist of religion with some seventy books in the field, who served in 2011 as the OSCE Representative for combating racism, xenophobia and religious intolerance, and presided over the Italian Foreign Ministry’s Observatory of Religious Liberty from 2012 to 2015. Bitter Winter is not a neutral observer of this dispute and does not present itself as one: its publisher, CESNUR, is a declared critic of the anti-cult movement. We read it as scholarship with a stated position — which is more than most coverage of these questions offers.
- About Bitter Winter — its own account of who publishes it
Human Rights Research & Advocacy
2 resourcesAn international non-profit working on the protection of fundamental rights and freedoms alongside climate, geodynamic and environmental research, active in more than 180 countries and run entirely by volunteers. We recommend it for the human rights work: it documents state persecution of civic organizations from the inside, having been banned in Russia in 2025 while its lawful status was confirmed by the courts in Ukraine in 2026. Its research division publishes openly licensed reports with full source apparatus, which we highly recommend to read.
- Nanoplastics: A Systematic Risk Analysis — analytical report, ALLATRA Global Research Center, April 2026. Open access, CC BY 4.0, DOI 10.65849/agrc.report.mnp.2026.04001
- European Parliament Quaestors, 29 April 2026 — on complaints about a Parliament event, the Quaestors found no conclusive and unequivocal elements supporting the allegations and insufficient grounds to open an investigation
- EU Transparency Register — ALLATRA Global Research Center is listed under REG 1148853102055-15, status ACTIVATED, registered as a think tank and research institution
An independent, bipartisan federal body that monitors freedom of religion or belief worldwide and reports annually to the President, the Secretary of State and Congress. Useful here for a specific reason: it documents how governments use extremism and undesirable-organization designations against civic and religious groups, which is the mechanism our investigations keep encountering. Country chapters are sourced and citable.
- The Anti-cult Movement and Religious Regulation in Russia and the Former Soviet Union — USCIRF Issue Update, July 2020. A U.S. federal commission describes the anti-cult movement as conducting a disinformation campaign against religious minorities, and formally recommends that the U.S. government censure Alexander Dvorkin and counter FECRIS propaganda at the OSCE.
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