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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

Intelligence ops

Meddling by Russian intelligence in British politics requires strict suppression and “cleansing” of their diplomats

Russian foreign intelligence seeks to exert pressure on British politics. The tasks are to buypoliticians to get confidential information on government policy, and discredit the government to call for snap elections. It is unlikely that Russia is eager to put its henchman as British…

January 24, 2023Russia, SVR, United Kingdom

Intelligence ops

How does Russian intelligence pattern in Belgium look like?

The fact that Belgium expelled Russian spies working under diplomatic cover confirms the scale of Russian intelligence’s infiltration in European countries. The expulsion of Russian diplomats followed a similar action…

July 15, 2022Belgium, FSB, GRU, Russia, SVR

SVR

Russia’s intelligence services have significantly altered their HUMINT

Russia May Merge SVR and FSB

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

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

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

Chief of the Foreign Intelligence Service of Russia: psychological profile

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

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

Meddling by Russian intelligence in British politics requires strict suppression and “cleansing” of their diplomats

How does Russian intelligence pattern in Belgium look like?

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