Supreme power of Putin’s FSB. Part 2: commercialization and criminalization, from “Bandit St. Petersburg” onward
The formation of a fundamentally new Russian political force – the FSB – took place throughout the entire…
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Supreme power of Putin’s FSB. Part 1: how the Soviet KGB became Russia’s FSB
"State security agencies have always been an instrument of the supreme power of the existing political regime… [In…
Ukraine detains deep cover GRU sleeper agent who might be highest ranking MH17 witness yet
The man is mentioned in the report by the first letter of his last name as "citizen K.",…
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…
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…
Baltic intelligence agencies increasingly worry about threats from China in addition to Russia
In mid-March, the State Security Service (VDD) of Latvia published its annual public report. “While the new coronavirus…
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…
Evil empire revives in Putin’s regime and FSB methods of “fighting terrorism”
In August 1991, just after the failure of the August Coup that had unsuccessfully tried to save the…
Russian secret police declassify century-old documents but then block access to them
In a move that perfectly embodies the “hybrid” way the Putin regime does things, the FSB has announced…
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”…
Former Ukrainian hostage Kostenko tells of FSB’s torture to extract “confessions”
Former political prisoner and Crimean Euromaidan activist Oleksandr Kostenko continues to experience severe health problems after injuries sustained…
“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…
FSB tries to explain attack on Ukrainian ships, proves Russia broke its own laws
After the Russian attack on Ukrainian ships aiming to enter the Kerch Strait to their ports on the…
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…
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’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…
Browder, Navalny and Pugachev likely top Putin’s hit list, Eidman says
Political murders in Russia are always ordered by the top man rather than being the decision of some…
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…
Moscow seeking to provoke revolts in Ukraine’s Azov Sea ports, Ukrainian admiral says
Admiral Serhiy Hayduk, commander of the Ukrainian Navy, says that Russia is seeking to provoke revolts in Mariupol…