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British blogger Eliot Higgins and his investigative website Bellingcat have been making headlines around the world this week with claims that they\\u2019ve uncovered the true identities of two Russian men suspected of carrying out a nerve agent attack in Salisbury. \\nNot tourists as the Kremlin maintains \\u2013 but highly decorated members of Russia\\u2019s military intelligence service, the GRU.

Higgins \\u2013 isn\\u2019t your typical journalist. A former video gamer, in the past he\\u2019s worked for a bank, an oil rig company even a lingerie firm.

Unlike old-school foreign correspondents, he uses \\u2018armchair analytics\\u2019 \\u2013 what he calls \\u2018open source\\u2019 materials like Facebook, twitter and Google earth to try to uncover what\\u2019s really going on in far away conflicts.

Chemical weapons in Syria, the downing of Malaysian Airlines flight MH17 over Ukraine and most recently the attempted poisoning of Sergei and Julia Skripal in Salisbury, he\\u2019s had one scoop after another.

On Profile this week, Mark Coles tries to discover more about the man.

His brother Ross Higgins, gives us his first ever broadcast interview.

Guardian journalist Luke Harding explains why he thinks Higgins is a pioneer, in digital investigative journalism.

And we hear from those who suspect Eliot Higgins is being used as a front

Producer Smita Patel\\nResearcher Oliver Jones\\nEditor Emma Rippon