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Involvement with compatriots as a tool for Russian intelligence and subversion abroad

Russia is promoting policies that allow justifying military invasion of countries that are of pivotal interest to the Kremlin. Using them, Russia gets the opportunity to skip separatism stir-up and…

September 9, 2022Russia

Geopolitics Intelligence ops

Russia’s ongoing infiltration into the OSCE as an attempt to oppose Polish chairmanship’s initiatives

Russia regularly does its best to oppose Warsaw's anti-Kremlin initiatives within the framework of Poland’s OSCE chairmanship and tries to win the support of its allies inside the organization. September,…

September 6, 2022OSCE, Russia, Shchienko

Governance ideology

Ideological basis of Kremlin’s policy in confronting the West

The Kremlin's response to the car explosion of Russian neo-Nazi Alexander Dugin’s daughter has turned the spotlight on to the ideological values cultivated in Russia over the last decade. Collapse…

September 5, 2022Nazi, Russia

Intelligence ops National Security

The Iron Curtain reborn as the only way to stop expanding Russian aggression

In June 2021, the RLI emphasized the need to partially return the deterrents used for Moscow in Soviet times: the Iron Curtain, as a way to restrict Russians’ entry into…

August 31, 2022Russia

Governance ideology Intelligence ops

Russia: battle for power

An attempt to kill Alexander Dugin, one of the key ‘Russian world’ ideologues, ended up with the death of his daughter Darya, as Kremlin’s pressure groups keep fighting to gain…

August 23, 2022FSB, GRU, Russia

Intelligence ops

Moscow sets the stage for intelligence infiltration into OSCE PA

Russia that has actively exploited the OSCE, following Crimea’s annexation and the beginning of Donbas invasion, does not leave attempts to infiltrate this international institution, as it seeks to get…

August 18, 2022Boyarskaya, Montella, OSCE, Russia

Intelligence ops Propaganda and Disinformation

Amnesty International reports lose credibility and signal of being infiltrated and influenced from outside

The scandal, arisen in early August after publishing the Amnesty International’s report sharing biased and false conclusions about war crimes in Ukraine, actualized the issue of level of trust in…

August 15, 2022Amnesty Iternational, Russia

Geopolitics National Security

Russia’s involvement endangers security in the Balkans

Tensions in northern Kosovo remain high even though the barricades set up by Serbian extremists have now been removed after the decision for a 30-day postponement of implementation for with…

August 11, 2022Kosovo, Russia, Serbia

Intelligence ops

Primrose-Morrison case reveals potential scale of Russian presence in the West

With Russian intelligence networks opened, we may see some deep infiltrated agents in the West, as Russia recruited or illegally dropped them as far back as the Cold War. A…

August 8, 2022Russia, USA

Geopolitics National Security

Russia approaches North Macedonia trying to block the EU integration

Russian attempts to influence the destabilization of the Western Balkans are mainly carried out through countries with political instability, always using Serbian channels. Wherever a gap for maneuvering, Russian agencies…

August 5, 2022North Macedonia, Russia

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