AS soon as he sipped his glass of Armenian brandy, Oleg Gordievsky knew he was in a fight for his life. If he could only keep ...

In 2020, law enforcers daily discussed the possible actions of protesters, including their routes: - There was a serious ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin meets with the Investigative Committee head Alexander Bastrykin in Saint Petersburg on October 9, 2022.Gavriil Grigorov/Getty Images Putin's time in the KGB helps ...

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"Actions of some of them were quite extensive and have been stopped in accordance with the Criminal Code. When ...

In February 2025, Alnur Mussayev, a former Soviet and Kazakh security official, claimed in a Facebook post that U.S. President Donald Trump was recruited in 1987 by the KGB, the intelligence agency of ...

The evidence is clear and convincing that the Soviets cultivated Mahmoud Abbas, but what did that bring them in the past, and what does it mean in the present? Contributing Editor In a way, it was the ...

Luke Harding is a foreign correspondent at the Guardian. Excerpted from the book Collusion: Secret Meetings, Dirty Money, and How Russia Helped Donald Trump Win published by Vintage Books, an imprint ...

Russian paper says the new group will resemble the defunct security agency. MOSCOW— -- President Vladimir Putin is planning a major restructuring of the country’s security services that would ...

They include a geopolitical reconfiguration of the region and, as a related objective, the overthrow of constitutional order ...

On 9 May 2017, Facebook page "The Church of PUNK" shared an article reporting that a KGB agent admitted the band the Sex Pistols were an operation backed by the former Soviet Union to destabilize ...