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Hacking controversy highlights Kremlin’s self-destructive approach
As the spat on Russia's hacking of the US information technology firm SolarWinds shows, Russia again damaged its own interests. It was classical espionage, but American pundits framed it as Kremlin sabotage.by Mark Galeotti -
Hoe de FBI tien Russische 'slapers' bespioneerde
In de zomer van 2010 werden tien Russische spionnen uit de VS geruild voor vier Russen die hun gevangenisstraf uitzaten in Rusland.
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Some habits die hard. How KGB-spies abroad got a second life
After the fall of the Soviet Union, a weighty question hung in the air: What would become of the KGB? It made perfect sense that the KGB would also dissolve or at least change beyond recognition. Thus in the 1990s, under Yeltsin’s democratic government, the KGB’s foreign intelligence apparatus was doomed. Or was it? -
Russian Foreign Intelligence might be in for a more prominent political role
There are signs that the political influence of Russia's Foreign Intelligence Service SVR is growing. After Stalin and Andropov, Putin is the third Russian leader who politically uses the intelligence services, argues intelligence expert Andrei Soldatov.