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Daily review: Turkey to maintain course of Bayraktar drone project, international flurry ahead of Putin-Biden call, 30 years of Ukrainian Army
Past 24 hours in the war zone JFO reports Russian-led militants launch 1 attack on Novoselivka, Donetsk Oblast.…
Which western bands were banned in the USSR?
[editorial]Is your favorite band on this list of 50 musical groups deemed “harmful” and outlawed during the USSR?[/editorial]…
The KGB massacred thousands of Poles in 1940 Kharkiv, declassified files reveal
[editorial]Millions of people around the world know about the Katyn massacre, the execution of 22,000 Poles captured in…
Protasevich’s “confession”: KGB Chairman Andropov’s specialty
[editorial]Protasevich is in hell, and there is no escape. The Belarussian KGB are faithful heirs to Yuri Andropov,…
How to be a Finn if you’re a Soviet spy: KGB’s illustrated tips from the 1970s
[editorial]Do you know how to butter your bread like a Finn? The KGB sure did, thanks to the…
10 things the KGB didn’t want you to know about Chernobyl
At the end of April, we observed the 35th anniversary of the event that has changed the world,…
Kremlin knew Chornobyl was an accident waiting to happen 3 years before 1986 disaster
The Soviet government knew that the Chornobyl atomic power plant was an accident waiting to happen at least…
KGB archives document Red Army’s atrocities against Ukrainian village in USSR after 1945
Red Army soldiers raising the USSR flag on the roof of Reichstag building in Berlin, May 1945. Iconic…
Soviet special services regularly reinforced Politburo’s view of the world, archives in Ukraine show
The archive contains some 1300 folders with the first reports being from the 1920s and the last from…
Kremlin planned to destabilize Ukraine in the early 1990s by smearing “all forms of nationalism,” KGB file reveals
This declaration did not please the Kremlin and caused quite a stir in Moscow and in the ranks…
Ukraine declassifies 190 more KGB documents on Chornobyl disaster
In a new book, The Chernobyl Dossier of the KGB: From Construction to the Accident (in Ukrainian), Kyiv’s…
Putin created unit that blew up apartment blocks in 1999 a year ahead of time, Kruglov says
Drawing on his contacts that he had developed with the criminal world during his first years in the…
Evil empire revives in Putin’s regime and FSB methods of “fighting terrorism”
[editorial]After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russia underwent capitalist reforms and abolished official ideology. Whether ordinary people…
Russian lawyer who conducted ‘secret Nuremberg’ against Stalinists brings archive to the West
A Russian lawyer who posed as a Stalinist and sought the rehabilitation of Stalin criminals, sometimes successfully and…
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…
Carols against the USSR: the tragic 1972 Vertep and KGB’s mass arrests of Ukrainian dissidents (photos)
12 January is marked in Ukraine as the day of the Ukrainian political prisoner. On this day in 1972, the KGB began massively arresting Ukrainian Shistdesyatnyky, ("Sixtiers"), a literary movement that arose in protest to the Soviet Union's destruction of everything Ukrainian, as they were enacting a Vertep, or Ukrainian Christmas caroling performance.
“I was told we should work with fascists”: former KGB officer Zhirnov
Recently, British media reported that half of the Russian diaspora in the UK are informants of the special…
New York Times sheds light on decades-old tradition of Kremlin disinformation campaign
“The HIV virus was secretly created by US scientists as a biological weapon.” Sounds familiar? This HIV hoax…
Moscow has increased intel ops staff by four times since 1991 and counter-intel even more, former KGB illegal says
Western media have been fixated on a report that Moscow now has 200 case officers working in London…
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…