SBU arrests 22-year-old suspected Russian agent who planted car bomb in Odesa, injuring local man
The man was detained while trying to escape after triggering the blast under a parked vehicle on 5 July.
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Russia recruits elderly in covert sabotage campaign across Ukraine and Europe
Across Ukraine and Europe, Russian intelligence is manipulating the vulnerable, pensioners and minors into carrying out sabotage.
The Telegraph: Colombian veterans who fought for Ukraine were kidnapped in Venezuela and handed over to Russia
Their disappearance reveals Putin's global reach and his close cooperation with Maduro's dictatorship.
Russian special services lure Ukrainian teens to set military cars on fire
In a disturbing trend, Russian special services are exploiting social media to recruit Ukrainian teenagers for subversive activities, promising them generous rewards for setting fire to military vehicles. The subversive act is punishable by up to 15 years in prison
Moscow seized control of Russian émigré group in US to promote Kremlin policies in Ukraine
In fact, the FBI did speak with some members of the group; but it did not move to…
Strategic corruption: the new hybrid weapon against the West
The use of corruption in furthering a country’s geopolitical interests is the primary technique currently widely used by…
Ukrainians fear Moscow may use their co-ethnics in Russia in provocation to restart war
Five days ago (April 29), the Federal Security Service (FSB) reported it had arrested 16 members of a…
Putin has two reasons to kill his opponents and the West has to counter both, Shulipa says
Yury Shulipa, author of How Putin Kills Abroad, says that Putin has two reasons for doing away with…
Derkach’s seven: the Russian-linked Ukrainians sanctioned by US over election interference
On 11 January 2021, the US Department of the Treasury reported that the US Department of the Treasury’s…
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…
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…
Russian Wagner mercenaries arrested in Belarus: ‘little green men’ scenario, fighters in transit, or other?
What happened… The Wagner Group arrived in Minsk on the night of July 24-25; each man carried a…
Telegram: the Russian messaging app at the heart of a major influence operation in Ukraine
Telegram, the Russian anonymous social media giant of Pavel Durov, is the conduit for a massive pro-Russian influence…
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…
Kremlin employs Cossacks, Moscow Patriarchate in Ukraine against Kyiv
For as long as official cases of COVID-19 have remained manageable inside the Russian Federation, Moscow was able…
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…
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…
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”…
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…