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Russian special services
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Moscow seized control of Russian émigré group in US to promote Kremlin policies in Ukraine
In fact, the FBI did speak with some members of the group; but it did not move to…
Strategic corruption: the new hybrid weapon against the West
The use of corruption in furthering a country’s geopolitical interests is the primary technique currently widely used by…
Ukrainians fear Moscow may use their co-ethnics in Russia in provocation to restart war
Five days ago (April 29), the Federal Security Service (FSB) reported it had arrested 16 members of a…
Putin has two reasons to kill his opponents and the West has to counter both, Shulipa says
Yury Shulipa, author of How Putin Kills Abroad, says that Putin has two reasons for doing away with…
Derkach’s seven: the Russian-linked Ukrainians sanctioned by US over election interference
[editorial] Last September, the US Treasury sanctioned Ukrainian independent MP Andriy Derkach citing his attempt to influence the…
Supreme power of Putin’s FSB. Part 2: commercialization and criminalization, from “Bandit St. Petersburg” onward
[editorial]During this year, Russia’s Dossier Center collected information about the structure, personnel, methods of work, and the main stages of…
Supreme power of Putin’s FSB. Part 1: how the Soviet KGB became Russia’s FSB
[editorial]During this year, Russia’s Dossier Center collected information about the structure, personnel, methods of work, and the main…
Russian Wagner mercenaries arrested in Belarus: ‘little green men’ scenario, fighters in transit, or other?
What happened… The Wagner Group arrived in Minsk on the night of July 24-25; each man carried a…
Telegram: the Russian messaging app at the heart of a major influence operation in Ukraine
[editorial]In Ukraine, various actors are at work to steer the country back to Russia’s smothering embrace. Their work…
The political dimension of Russia’s spy war in Ukraine
Since the beginning of the undeclared Russian-Ukrainian war in early 2014, the secret services of both countries have…
Kremlin employs Cossacks, Moscow Patriarchate in Ukraine against Kyiv
For as long as official cases of COVID-19 have remained manageable inside the Russian Federation, Moscow was able…
Acquiring agents of influence – major task of Russian spy services, Khmelnytskyi says
Moscow’s efforts to recruit spies perhaps not surprisingly has always attracted more attention than its work to recruit…
The hard fate of foreign Russia-lovers: Ksenia Kirillova on the Paul Whelan case
[editorial]The American Paul Whelan was arrested on 28 December in Moscow and accused of espionage. What stands out…
FSB, SVR divide control of Moscow Patriarchate church at home and abroad, Ukrainian intelligence official says
The Russian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate (ROC MP) at the present time is “99 percent controlled”…
More fallout from Ukrainian autocephaly: Russians learn Moscow Orthodox hierarchs were KGB officers
Specialists on religion in the Soviet Union have known for decades that many of the most senior hierarchs…
Chekist Operation Trust — model for Putin’s approach to Russian Church and Russian nationalism, Khazanov-Pashkovsky says
The Trust, as a Chekist operation directed at and designed to disorder the anti-Bolshevik White emigration at the…
Putin elite can’t retain power and property without another war, Pastukhov says
All of the Kremlin’s recent actions — from a pension reform it didn’t have to carry out now…
Putin’s shift on Skripal case makes a broader war more likely, Pastukhov says
By insisting that Skripal deserved his fate rather than simply denying that Moscow had anything to do with…
Putin actively using Cold War Stasi agent network in Germany, Reitschuster says
Boris Reitschuster, author of Putin’s Secret War, says that the Kremlin is “actively using the old agent network”…
Moscow has complex system to run agents of influence abroad, Khmelnytskyi says
As Moscow’s geopolitical isolation has increased, Dmytro Khmelnytskyi says, the role of its agents of influence abroad and…