The hard fate of foreign Russia-lovers: Ksenia Kirillova on the Paul Whelan case
For at least the past five years, Russia is steadfastly ratcheting up conflicts with Europe and the United…
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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…
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 disliked Ukrainians long before he seized Crimea, KGB veterans reportedly say
When Vladimir Putin was serving as a KGB officer in East Germany, he had the reputation among his…
Soviet chekists weren’t the professionals Putin wants Russians to think they were, new book says
The KGB and its predecessors were not the highly disciplined professionals and successful managers Vladimir Putin and the…
Russia’s FSB no longer ‘new nobility’ but only tool like old KGB, Soldatov and Borogan say
The role of Russia’s security services changed in the last year, Andrey Soldatov and Irina Borogan say. It…
EU Eastern Partnership experts say Ukraine’s opening of KGB archives is exemplary
Experts from the countries of the Eastern Partnership spoke about access to the archives of the communist secret…
For the chekists, Navalny is the Yeltsin of 1987, Portnikov says
Many have forgotten that in May 1987, Boris Yeltsin, then head of the Moscow city committee of the…
Disinformation across ages: Russia’s old but effective weapon of influence
I. The Metropol gala It was 10 December 2015. Russia’s global propaganda television channel RT (formerly Russia Today)…
Russian Guard’s aspirations open the way to mass repressions, Stanovaya says
Russia is on the way to acquiring a government institution fully capable of mass repressions, Tatyana Stanovaya says.…
Putin gives his Guard powers even NKVD didn’t have: the question now is why? Gorevoy says
Vladimir Putin on May 24th gave his National Guard the right to assume control over and give orders…
Putin’s Russian Guard is true ‘heir to the NKVD,’ its deputy commander says
In explaining why the new Russian Guard plans to restore the red banner and the name Feliks Dzerzhinsky…
Difficult choice for Ukraine as identities of KGB agents finally come to light
Ukraine’s resolve to open the archives of the communist special services makes publicly available not only the files…
Ukrainians discover stories of repressed relatives in newly opened KGB archives
Russia and Ukraine hold the world’s largest documentary collections of Communist secret services that ceased to exist in…
Putin moves to give his “personal guard” KGB-like functions
The Rosbalt news agency is reporting that the Kremlin plans to give the National Guard of Russia additional functions…
History repeats in Russia as FSB raids human rights activist from KGB-repressed family
After the arrest of the Crimean Tatar lawyer Emil Kurbedinov and growing pressure on his Russian colleague Nikolai…