Chekist regime and criminal world in Russia now ‘completely coincide,’ Portnikov says
Those Russian officials who came out of the KGB have not struggled with the criminal world as they…
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FSB defector’s claims about Moscow’s ties to ISIS consistent with other evidence, Kirillova says
An FSB defector says that Moscow is very closely tied to ISIS and has been involved with groups…
Putin ‘played no less role’ in creation of ISIS than Stalin did in rise of Nazis, Shmulyevich says
Vladimir Putin should be compared with Stalin rather than with Hitler, Avraam Shmulyevich says, not only because he…
White Russian officer and Vlasovite source of Putin’s ‘hybrid war’ strategy, former KGB psychoanalyst says
Yevgeny Messner (1891-1974), last chief of staff of the Kornilov Division of Baron Wrangel’s White Russian Army and…
Russian trolls terrorize the West with old KGB methods
The activity of Russian trolls in the West has already gotten a lot of media coverage. However, sometimes…
Putin using far right to destabilize Ukraine, Poroshenko says
In the best tradition of the Soviet intelligence services from which he comes, Vladimir Putin is “attempting to…
How Ukraine got into such bad shape
It's happened elsewhere. Countries within the former USSR and all Eastern European countries, including those that have already…
Is Putin poisoning his opponents?
Russian journalist and opposition leader Vladimir Kara-Murza remains in critical condition after having fallen ill as a result…
‘Putin – just a link of a single KGB chain’ ruling Russia
Vladimir Putin should be arrested for war crimes and tried by an international tribunal in the Hague, Sergey…
Former KGB colleague: Putin isn’t going to start a nuclear war but may destroy Russia
Despite threatening language, Vladimir Putin is not going to start a nuclear war, according to Yuri Shvets, who…
Belarusian spy agencies’ cooperation with Russian ones in Lithuania highlights larger problem
The security services of Belarus are closely cooperating with their Russian counterparts against Lithuania as far as their…
Analysis: ‘Putin isn’t a politician. He’s a spy and a provocateur’
Russia, the 19th century Russian poet Fyodor Tyutchev reminded the world, cannot be measured by “an ordinary yardstick.”…