Leaked emails from a whistleblower at Russia’s FSB revealed that Russian officials discussed potential use of nuclear weapons against Ukraine in March and April 2022, Newsweek found. The emails, which have been shared...
Past 24 hours in the war zone According to Ukraine’s Joint Forces Operation Staff, Russian-led militants launched 3 attacks, namely near Shyrokyne, Maryinka and Krasnohorivka. 1 Ukrainian soldier was wounded Gunfire was directed at...
Grani.ru, Russia’s independent website, draws a link between this event and the meeting of Sergei Lavrov, Russia’s foreign minister, and Anthony Blinken, the US Secretary of State, within the Stockholm assembly of the OSCE...
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;...
“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...
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...
In a move that perfectly embodies the “hybrid” way the Putin regime does things, the FSB has announced that it is declassifying documents concerning the trial and execution of Admiral Kolchak, the anti-Bolshevik leader in...
The Russian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate (ROC MP) at the present time is “99 percent controlled” by the special services of the Russian Federation, the FSB at home and the SVR abroad, according to Yehor Bozhok,...
Former political prisoner and Crimean Euromaidan activist Oleksandr Kostenko continues to experience severe health problems after injuries sustained during torture and beatings by Russian FSB officers. It all started on February 5, 2015,...
Recently, British media reported that half of the Russian diaspora in the UK are informants of the special services (SVR, GRU, and even the FSB). This revelation was based on a misinterpretation of a report about the scale of Russian...
First stereotype: Ukrainians are very poor Some Europeans viewed Ukraine as extremely poor. Many Ukrainian refugees were surprised to learn that. “They perceived us almost like we are cave people who do not know and have not seen...
