SVR Archives - Robert Lansing Institute

Africa’s New Overseers: Inside Russia’s Covert Gold Empire”

Russia’s involvement in building a gold refinery plant in Mali is not just an economic move — it’s a strategic maneuver involving sanctions evasion, geopolitical influence, and shadow financing of military operations in Africa and…

June 18, 2025gold, GRU, Russia, SVR, Wagner Group

Intelligence ops

Russia Exploits the IAEA to Steal Chinese Nuclear Technology

The Kremlin has institutionalized a vast effort to expropriate Chinese nuclear technologies under the guise of international cooperation. This policy, sanctioned at the highest political level, involves diplomats, intelligence operatives,…

May 29, 2025Austria, China, Rosatom, Russia, SVR

Intelligence ops National Security

Russia’s intelligence services have significantly altered their HUMINT

Russia Shifts HUMINT Recruitment Tactics Amid War in Ukraine. Since the onset of the war in Ukraine, Russia's intelligence services have significantly altered their human intelligence (HUMINT) protocols, moving away…

November 26, 2024FSB, GRU, Russia, SVR

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

Intelligence ops

Supporting political terrorism and communist-era uprisings: Moscow returns to the Comintern ideas

Russia is going to activate in conducting influence operations in the West by using terrorist and sabotage acts. The statement of Sergei Naryshkin, the director of the Russian Foreign Intelligence…

May 20, 2024Naryshkin, Russia, SVR

Geopolitics Governance Intelligence ops

New political parties in Europe: the Kremlin’s tricks to infiltrate its agents in the European Parliament

Our prior conclusions as of Russia’s intervention in the internal policy of Germany have been confirmed The Russian Presidential Administration tasked the intelligence agencies to urgently strengthen pro-Russian or pacifist forces…

November 10, 2023AfD, Germany, GRU, Russia, SVR

Corruption Governance Intelligence ops

Viktor Orbán’s vulnerability: ways to blackmail Hungary’s Prime Minister

Challenging pro-Russian policy by Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orbán creates rumors and suspicion that Moscow has dirt on him, with the Kremlin shaking him down to be its rat in the EU…

October 31, 2023Hungary, Naryshkin, Russia, SVR

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Chief of the Foreign Intelligence Service of Russia: psychological profile

Sergey Naryshkin is a Russian politician, ex-speaker of the lower house of the State Duma, ex-head of the Kremlin administration. He has run the government apparatus, the investment division of…

August 29, 2023Naryshkin, Russia, SVR

Intelligence ops National Security Psyops

Psyops run by Russian intelligence reflect HUMINT crisis, set to focus on further falsification of documents

In the next 30-45 days, new portions of leaks from U.S. government agencies should be expected. However, these “leaks” will in fact be about troves of falsified documents that allegedly…

April 11, 2023GRU, Russia, SVR, USA

Intelligence ops Propaganda and Disinformation Psyops

GRU operation in Romania points to crisis in Russia’s Intel community

Russian intelligence in Europe is going through a deep crisis after the mass expulsion of their operatives who had been working under diplomatic cover (750 people). Less frequent contacts with the…

March 23, 2023AUR, Diana Șoșoacă, GRU, Romania, Russia, SVR

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