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How professional is the FSB: 10 burning questions

Over the past two months several agents of the Russian Federal Security Service, who tracked and possibly tried to murder Alexey Navalny, are identified because of some basic errors inside the FSB. Is the main intelligence agency really so amateurish?

by Andrei Soldatov
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.

by Andrei Soldatov
'With its cyber troops the Russian military has become political'

On October 16 Andrei Soldatov held the second October Lecture of RaamopRusland. Research
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Kremlin calculus seems driven by dreams of war

We can keep laughing at the Russian military intelligence service, says our columnist Mark Galeotti, but we should
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Special troops of GRU will be growing headache for the West

Ruslan Boshirov, one of the suspects of the poison attack on Skripal, has been identified by research group Bellingcat as a
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Footprints of the Russian Military Intelligence Agency GRU are everywhere

The Russian GRU is back in charge. Be it in the Mueller indictment, the annexation of Crimea, the Skripal case, the downing of MH17,
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Punish the criminal, not the instrument

On December 29 president Obama kicked out 35 Russian diplomats in response to Russian interference with the American
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How professional is the FSB: 10 burning questions

Russian Foreign Intelligence might be in for a more prominent political role

'With its cyber troops the Russian military has become political'

Kremlin calculus seems driven by dreams of war

Special troops of GRU will be growing headache for the West

Footprints of the Russian Military Intelligence Agency GRU are everywhere

Punish the criminal, not the instrument