In fact, the FBI did speak with some members of the group; but it did not move to shut it down. However, it has now come out that the organization, the product of ordinary émigré activities prior to 2014, was purged by Moscow because its...
The use of corruption in furthering a country’s geopolitical interests is the primary technique currently widely used by two countries – Russia and China, both of which profess revanchism against the West, namely against the EU,...
Five days ago (April 29), the Federal Security Service (FSB) reported it had arrested 16 members of a Ukrainian “neo-Nazi community” in Irkutsk, Krasnodar, Saratov, Tambov, Tyumen, Chita, Anapa and Pereslavl-Zalessky. The Russian...
Yury Shulipa, author of How Putin Kills Abroad, says that Putin has two reasons for doing away with his political opponents. On the one hand, he wants to spread fear among both others who oppose him and the international system as a whole....
On 11 January 2021, the US Department of the Treasury reported that the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) took further action against Russian-linked actors by including seven Ukrainian citizens and...
The formation of a fundamentally new Russian political force – the FSB – took place throughout the entire 1990s and lasted until 2003. In this process of formation, three stages can be distinguished: commercialization; criminalization;...
“State security agencies have always been an instrument of the supreme power of the existing political regime… In the 1990s the security services stopped monitoring latent processes in the socio-political and ethnonational areas....
What happened… The Wagner Group arrived in Minsk on the night of July 24-25; each man carried a small piece of hand luggage and heavy suitcases. First, the group settled in a hotel in Minsk, but left on July 27 and moved to a sanatorium...
Telegram, the Russian anonymous social media giant of Pavel Durov, is the conduit for a massive pro-Russian influence operation over Ukrainian politicians, an investigation by texty.org.ua journalist Liubov Velychko has revealed. The...
Since the beginning of the undeclared Russian-Ukrainian war in early 2014, the secret services of both countries have been key players in the conflict, particularly due to its “hybrid” nature. Covert operations, sabotage and espionage...
Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia Van Voren: Of course, you have a number of Lithuanians who managed quite cleverly to gather wealth and become the upper layer in society. But the extremes you see in Ukraine or Russia is something that didn’t...
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