Read More 2 minute read Latest news Ukraine Hungarian opposition leader Péter Magyar says Kremlin has joined Orbán’s campaign against him The Kremlin’s spy agency echoed Viktor Orbán’s rhetoric, portraying Magyar as a Brussels stooge ahead of April’s elections. byYuri Zoria
Read More 3 minute read Latest news Ukraine Investigative journalist Christo Grozev: Kremlin plans to interfere in Georgia’s elections "If Russia's plans work, it will be the end of a free Georgia as we know it," Grozev warned. byBenjamin Looijen
Read More 2 minute read Latest news Ukraine Russian with family ties to Moscow’s foreign intel at helm of Council of Europe’s anti-money laundering program – BILD Russian national Igor Nebyvaev, the executive secretary of the Council of Europe's anti-money laundering program Moneyval, has family… byYuri Zoria
Read More 6 minute read International Russia Russian gas, German elections, and US sanctions Two high-resonance processes have been simultaneously unfolding in Europe in the last few weeks: the sharp increase in… byThe Jamestown Foundation
Read More 4 minute read International Russia 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… byPaul A. Goble
Read More 4 minute read Opinion Russia 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… byPaul A. Goble
Read More 7 minute read Russian Aggression Ukraine 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… byThe Jamestown Foundation
Read More 6 minute read International Opinion Baltic intelligence agencies increasingly worry about threats from China in addition to Russia In mid-March, the State Security Service (VDD) of Latvia published its annual public report. “While the new coronavirus… byThe Jamestown Foundation
Read More 4 minute read International Opinion 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… byPaul A. Goble
Read More 4 minute read Opinion Russia 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”… byPaul A. Goble
Read More 4 minute read Opinion Russia 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… byPaul A. Goble
Read More 3 minute read Opinion Russia 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… byPaul A. Goble
Read More 4 minute read History of Ukraine Opinion 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… byPaul A. Goble
Read More 4 minute read Opinion Russian Aggression Putin’s shift on Skripal case makes a broader war more likely, Pastukhov says By insisting that Skripal deserved his fate rather than simply denying that Moscow had anything to do with… byPaul A. Goble
Read More 3 minute read International Opinion Browder, Navalny and Pugachev likely top Putin’s hit list, Eidman says Political murders in Russia are always ordered by the top man rather than being the decision of some… byPaul A. Goble
Read More 4 minute read Opinion Russian Aggression 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”… byPaul A. Goble
Read More 6 minute read Featured Hybrid War International Opinion 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… byPaul A. Goble
Read More 4 minute read Opinion Russia Who’s most at risk of assassination by Putin’s siloviki? Kirillova provides a typology One of the reasons Vladimir Putin and his regime are able to get away with so many of… byPaul A. Goble
Read More 6 minute read Opinion Russian Aggression In Skripal case, Kremlin following procedures it used for earlier political murders, Pastukhov says At first glance, Vladimir Pastukhov says, Moscow’s approach to the Skripal scandal appears “irrational and inadequate, in fact,… byPaul A. Goble
Read More 4 minute read Hybrid War Behind the smokescreen: who are the actors spreading disinformation on ex-Russian spy Skripal? Now, it is time to look behind the smokescreen that pro-Kremlin disinformation is puffing around. Who are the… byEU East StratCom Task Force