Evidence-Based Notes on Occupation→Construction→Erasure is a field log emerged as a way to capture the unfolding machinery of occupation. Open-source information on the organizers and executors of construction projects in Russian-occupied Ukrainian territories was compiled. The resulting table sketches a high-level architecture of this building apparatus: contractors that recombine and rebrand, nominal legal entities that appear and dissolve, and branches of Russian firms reshaped to mask their presence and evade sanctions. Instead of accounting for every actor, the project traces recurring organizational patterns that expose the deep economic participation of Russian companies and citizens in profiting from forcibly expanded real-estate markets — revealing how state and private capital jointly absorb the risks and harvest the gains of Russia’s evolving extrastatecraft. The resulting table has not been intended to be exhaustive in a sence of amount data, yet compelled to grasp knowledge about organzational patterns beyond isolated facts.

The Evidence-Based Notes format developed within this project is conceived as the foundational layer for a broader EBN framework. This framework is intended to structure the process of collecting and documenting evidence of occupation, while deliberately preserving space for the registration of other, expanding levels of knowledge that are continuously produced and militarized throughout the course of occupation. Conceptually, this approach aligns with contemporary investigative frameworks designed to map complex systems of harm, responsibility, and operational infrastructures.

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