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Russian spy network
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WSJ: Wirecard fraudster CEO was Russian agent for nearly a decade
Jan Marsalek mysteriously disappeared after Wirecard claimed $2 billion was missing. But the vanishing exec now faces accusations far beyond fraud - officials say he operated as a Russian spy before escaping to Moscow.
VSquare: Russian spies still call Brussels home
Kirill Logvinov, Russia's top diplomat to the EU, has continued wining and dining Brussels diplomats despite being identified as a Russian intelligence officer. Logvinov regularly hosts lavish dinners where he spreads anti-Ukrainian propaganda, even as Brussels looks the other way.
Russian agent detained in Odesa, convicted for 15 years in jail
The court in Odesa found guilty local resident who became agent of Russian FSB. He was convicted for…
Derkach’s seven: the Russian-linked Ukrainians sanctioned by US over election interference
[editorial] Last September, the US Treasury sanctioned Ukrainian independent MP Andriy Derkach citing his attempt to influence the…
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…
Ukrainian espionage incident highlights ongoing Russian naval shortcomings
Russian-Ukrainian relations, increasingly tense since the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union, plummeted to a new low after…
Germany and Russia: The end of the honeymoon period?
[editorial] The term schröderization or schroederization designates the coopting of a key political elite in an important position…
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…
“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…
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…
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…
Russian campaign against US consulate in Yekaterinburg has long history, Kirillova says
In response to the closing of the Russian consulate in San Francisco and of two trade representations in…
Moscow diplomats said behind formation of militarized Russian and Cossack groups in US
Ruslan Gurzhiy, a journalist for a Russian émigré publication in Sacramento, California, says that Russian diplomats and oligarchs…
Containment of Putin’s Russia in today’s globalized world won’t be easy or even enough
Ever more people are calling for the containment of Putin’s Russia and some are even celebrating that the…
West fails to recognize nature and scope of Putin’s hybrid war against it, Eidman says
Many in the West have “the wrong idea about how the Russian manipulation machine works,” Igor Eidman says,…
Russian special services aren’t the all-powerful agencies many believe, Kirillova says
Many in Russia and the West have come to believe, under the influence of Putin and pro-Putin propaganda…
”In The Shadow of Mordor.” An espionage novel about the Russo-Ukrainian war published in the USA
Last weekend, an espionage novel titled “In the Shadow of Mordor” was published in the USA. The Russo-Ukrainian…
“How to pray for Putin” and other neglected Russian stories
The flood of news stories from a country as large, diverse and strange as the Russian Federation often…