Armand Chouet at Robert Lansing Institute

Russian intelligence is leveraging terrorists from international organizations to destabilize European countries.

The FSB (Federal Security Service) is recruiting assassins from Russian prisons, sending them abroad to participate in operations, including contract killings. For instance, the FSB’s 2nd Service (Service for the…

October 9, 2024FSB, Russia

Intelligence ops Propaganda and Disinformation

Russia May Merge SVR and FSB

Discontent is growing within the Kremlin elite towards Sergei Naryshkin, the head of Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR). His public statements are increasingly filled with disinformation, which has become apparent…

August 14, 2024FSB, Russia, SVR

Governance

Some Conclusions on Changes in President Putin’s Meeting Protocols

A review of video and photographic materials published following Russian President Vladimir Putin's foreign visits suggests that, at least since early 2024, Russia has abolished the protocol for his biological…

July 11, 2024Putin, Russia

Governance Opinion

Risk evaluation: GOP candidates may reconsider Joe Biden’s foreign policy choices

As leaders of U.S. Democrats and Republicans confront each other in electoral race, there is a danger of making wrong foreign policy decisions, likely to cause U.S. military casualties, while current…

December 11, 2023USA

Geopolitics Governance National Security

depletion of Russia’s military potential can prevent NATO countries from getting involved in a new war in Europe

The increasing risks of further escalation caused by Russian territorial expansion and imperial policy revival require Western countries to put efforts to create conditions to prevent the Kremlin from conducting…

October 12, 2023NATO, Russia, Ukraine

Geopolitics Opinion

Increased supply of heavy weapons to Ukraine serves Germany’s interests

Germany has received a historic chance to shed all negativity that has been trailing behind the nation since World War 2 by demonstrating leadership in a free and democratic Europe in…

September 13, 2022Germany, Ukraine

Estimates Governance

Global security and de-escalation between the West and China depend on Russia’s dismantling

Aggressive war unleashed against Ukraine, an effort to rebuild the empire, economic blackmail of Europe, provoked famine in Africa, and how the Russian people feel about that suggest the only way out - to disintegrate Russia and mould several independent nations on ethnic grounds. This scenario looks promising today, as separatist attitude in some regions of Russia,…

July 13, 2022Russia

Geopolitics Opinion

Germany: NATO’s weak spot-to-be

German policy indicates that Berlin is steering clear from the Western alliance. As Angela Merkel left German chancellery, Berlin is increasingly showing a stance that conflicts with most of the…

January 21, 2022Germany, NATO

Democracy Opinion

Boundaries of intervention

The withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan called into question Washington credibility as a reliable strategic partner and drew criticism toward the White House. Certain hostile forces, including Russia, which…

August 18, 2021Afghanistan

Drug trafficking

Pro-Iranian proxies export Captagon as hybrid war weapon

Tehran and Damascus use the drug trafficking both as a source to finance their activities and as hybrid war weapon. In order to weaken the West the Soviet Union has…

June 29, 2021captagon, Hezbollah, Iran

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