Russia sanctions intelligence — independent, public-source
Linzalytics is a Netherlands-registered independent research practice focused on Russia sanctions, occupied-territory exposure, and secondary-sanctions risk. The product is a structured graph built from public sources, turned into analyst-usable briefs for compliance teams, law firms, and government analysts.
What we do
We take public inputs — OFAC SDN, OpenSanctions, EU/UK/UA/CA/AU/JP/CH/NZ lists, Russian arbitration court records (kad.arbitr.ru), Russian procurement (zakupki.gov.ru), EGRUL corporate registry — and turn them into an INN-anchored graph with analyst-structured evidence. On top of that sit the briefs: designation packages, cross-jurisdiction coverage gaps, 50% Rule triage, occupied-territory discovery, and procurement-driven supplier exposure.
Everything we publish is backed by a primary-source citation. Nothing is sourced from subscription-only databases or commercial data partners. The value is in the structure, the scoring, and the evidence chains — not in exclusive access to records.
Who this is for
- Compliance teams at banks, energy firms, shipping companies, and industrial exporters who need to see beyond the OFAC front page — to the 50% Rule-triggered subsidiaries, the court-linked counterparties, and the procurement chains that still reach sanctioned principals.
- Law firms building designation memos, advising on divestment, or prosecuting sanctions-evasion cases — where primary-source documentation matters.
- Government analysts and NGO researchers looking for a working second set of eyes on Russia's sanctioned network — with transparent methodology and reproducible findings.
- Journalists and academics using the free tier to ground public reporting.
Principal
The practice is led by Derek Linz, a systems engineer and analyst based in the Greater Amsterdam Area. Prior to Linzalytics, Derek spent a decade at Nutanix as a Sr. Staff Escalation Engineer — serving as the global reference point for NVIDIA GPU interoperability across 700+ engineering and support staff, building SQL-driven analytics platforms (Snowflake, PostgreSQL, Tableau) for operational intelligence, and conducting kernel-level root cause analysis on production distributed systems. Security work within that role included vulnerability assessment (Nessus, Rapid7 InsightVM), CVE analysis, and PCI compliance advisory for enterprise clients. Earlier roles included HIPAA compliance and Nessus vulnerability advisory for Duke University Medical Center.
Linzalytics emerged in early 2026 from applying that data and systems background to the public Russia-related record — specifically the question of which suppliers to designated state enterprises remain outside OFAC and EU sanctions perimeters. The methodology is engineering-driven: INN-anchored entity resolution, structured cross-reference pipelines, and court record mining rather than keyword scraping.
Certifications: RHCSA · Nutanix Certified Master (NCM MCI) · VCP6-NV · VCP6-DCV · NVIDIA AI Enterprise Admin
This is not a legal practice and nothing published here is legal advice. Compliance and designation decisions remain with the buyer's own legal team.
Independence & funding
Linzalytics is independently owned and funded by its subscribers. We do not accept government contracts that would constrain what we can publish; we do not take advocacy funding from interested parties to designations; we have no investors with veto rights over the research agenda. If that changes, it will be disclosed here.
How we work
- Daily pipeline: sources are re-fetched, the graph rebuilt, briefs regenerated. Freshness is shown on the dashboard.
- Transparent methodology: every source we use is listed on /intel/methodology.html.
- Reproducibility: the scorecard CSV and enrichment steps are documented; subscribers can validate our scoring against their own dataset.
Contact
For product inquiries, custom research, DPA requests, or press: email derek.linz@linzalytics.com. See pricing for subscription options.