Retirement of FSO’s Murov may exacerbate Russia’s underground silovik conflicts
It’s not been confirmed, but there are reports that Evgeny Murov, head of the FSO (Federal Guard Service) is stepping down from his position, probably this autumn. Not a great surprise–he’s turning 69...
View ArticleRussia’s Intelligence System – a presentation
I was delighted to be invited to speak to the 2015 Annual Symposium of CASIS, the Canadian Association for Security and Intelligence Studies, in Ottawa. I was discussing Russia’s Intelligence System...
View ArticleFirst Thoughts on Arrest of Russian Spy in New York
So today the FBI charged three Russians with being spies, agents of the SVR (Foreign Intelligence Service). Two are already out of the country and were in diplomatic cover anyway, so the worse the US...
View ArticleNew Book: ‘Hybrid War or Gibridnaya Voina? Getting Russia’s non-linear...
UPDATE, 11 APRIL 2018: My book Hybrid War or Gibridnaya Voina? Getting Russia’s non-linear military challenge right has been withdrawn from publication. Instead, an expanded, updated and substantially...
View ArticleAmbassador Karlov’s security and the Zaslon red herring
Moscow is currently grumbling that their ambassador was put at risk because for ten years the Turks have not allowed them to send members of the Zaslon special operations group to Ankara to provide...
View ArticleCrimintern: How the Kremlin uses Russia’s criminal networks in Europe
My latest report for the ECFR is out. While I am waiting for the bidding war for the film rights, I’ll settle for pointing people in its direction – you can download it free here – and offer up the...
View ArticleManaging Russia’s Political War
In the year-and-a-bit that I was a visiting fellow for the European Council on Foreign Relations, I was working on a tetralogy of reports on different aspects of Russia’s “political war” (not a hybrid...
View ArticleA Purely Personal ‘Best of 2017’ on Russia
Monstrously egotistical, I know, (though this is my blog, after all!), but here are the ten pieces I wrote in 2017 about which I am happiest, for various reasons: Russia has no grand plans, but...
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