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Russian agents of influence
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Politico: Russia uses Serbian agent to infiltrate EU institutions, Western intel says
Russian intelligence has been using a Serbian "agent of influence" to spread pro-Kremlin narratives about its invasion of Ukraine within the European Union.
Media: Pro-Russian Bundestag aide unmasked as FSB asset
A German MP’s aide sought over 90,000 euros from his FSB handler to finance legal efforts to limit German arms transfers to Ukraine, a journalistic investigation shows.
Orbán vetoes EU’s €50 bn Ukraine aid after EU open door to Ukraine’s membership
Hungary's PM Orbán vetoed the €50 bn aid for Ukraine. European Council's President Charles Michel intends to gather EU leaders for another vote next month to secure funding.
Ukrainian security service busts FSB group that prepared missile strikes and recruited quislings
The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) has neutralized a branch of FSB agents who were preparing missile strikes…
SBU detains Russian agent who formerly commanded a Ukrainian special operations center
Ukraine’s security service (SBU) has detained a Russian agent who had earlier commanded a special operations center of…
Demands to sanction Putin’s German agents of influence as Chancellor Scholtz visits Ukraine
As German Chancellor Olaf Scholz arrived for talks with President Zelenskyy ahead of a trip to Moscow, he…
Under the guise of human rights and anti-globalization: how Russian influence agent Alexander Ionov works
Anti-globalization in the pay of Putin Alexander Ionov is an extremely multi-skilled political functionary. Since 2012, he has been…
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…
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…
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…
Kyiv finds an alibi to step back from Kozak-Yermak plan on Donbas
The COVID-19 coronavirus emergency gives Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy a non-political excuse for stepping back from the plan…
Kozak-Yermak plan on Donbas: The fine print
The meeting of the Minsk-based Contact Group, held by videoconference on March 24–26, had been expected to officially…
Ukraine’s president Zelenskyy turns blind eye to Putin-Medvedchuk scheming
On March 10, in Moscow, Ukraine’s leading Russophile politician Viktor Medvedchuk conferred with Russian President Vladimir Putin and…
Zelenskyy’s three closest advisors working for the Kremlin, Piontkovsky says
The collapse of Kyiv’s position at home and abroad over the last six months reflects the fact that…
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…
Europe fails to see Moscow using economics as a weapon not only against the former Soviet states but against it as well, Tsybulenko says
“In contrast to the countries of the West which are led by the principle, ‘politics is the concentrated…
Putin has created a Fifth International organizing the right, Felshtinsky says
Marx created the First International; Engels established the Second; Lenin, the Third; Trotsky, the Fourth; and now Vladimir…
Putin regime has set up not one but five ‘fifth columns’ in Germany, Eidman says
In the third article of his series on Moscow’s influence operations in the West, Igor Eidman says that…
Hungary’s Jobbik Party shows itself to be Putinist, not Hungarian nationalist
Hungary’s extreme right Jobbik Party, which has long pushed Budapest to take up the cause of ethnic Hungarians…
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…