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Poland charges 3 Belarusians who forced diversion of plane from Athens to Minsk in 2021
Prosecutors in Poland have said they have charged three Belarusian officials with using a ruse to divert a Poland-registered plane and thus violating the freedom of 132 people on board when in 2021 they ordered the plane carrying a dissident blogger to land in Minsk, leading to the arrest of Raman Pratasevich.
Alexei Navalny: He was kept in -27°C solitary confinement and killed with a punch to the heart, activist says
It is a technique once taught to agents of the Soviet Union's secret services
Putin’s war in Ukraine through the eyes of a KGB insider
His life is similar to that of a Hollywood hero - perhaps the super-spy Jason Bourne, played by Matt Damon in the famous film series. Except that Jack Barsky was not in the ranks of the CIA, but the KGB at the end of the Cold War.
Mission [Almost] Impossible: Wartime Reform of Moldova’s Intelligence Apparatus
The new director of Moldova's SIS has vowed to reform the secret service and protect Moldova's European path. He faces challenges in the shape of a KGB legacy and war in neighbouring Ukraine.
Russia names Steven Seagal humanitarian envoy with US
Russia's President Vladimir Putin and American action movie actor Steven Seagal visit a newly-built sports complex of Sambo-70 prominent wrestling school in Moscow. Putin teamed up today with Steven Seagal to promote the Soviet-style regime of rigorous physical training for schoolchildren.
U.S. hires company with K.G.B. link to guard Moscow Embassy
When President Vladimir V. Putin in July ordered American diplomatic missions in Russia to slash their staff by 755 employees, the State Department said it would need time to assess the “impact of such a limitation and how we will respond to it.”
Yuri Drozdov, Soviet superspy who planted “illegals” in other countries, dies at 91
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A Soviet Spy Who saved The “Big Three” at the Tehran Conference was 19 years old at the time!
During the spy games of WWII, the result of the war was hanging by a thread. Gevorg Vartanian, a young Armenian who joined the Soviet intelligence circle through his father, proved to be a valuable asset, even when he was 16 years old. Vartanian’s father posed as a rich Persian merchant in Tehran for 23 years, having moved there in 1930 when his son was six years old.
Russia Mulls Setting Up 'KGB-Like' Ministry - Reports
Russia plans the creation of a Ministry of State Security (MGB) in a large-scale institutional restructuring, sources quoted by daily Kommersant have suggested.
Why does Putin have that strange way of walking? Dutch researchers know (vid)
Much ado has been made of Vladimir Putin’s unusual walk where his right hand remains stiff but left arm swings freely. Rumors say he had an in-utero stroke to a childhood bout of polio, with even statements that it may be a sign of the early onset of Parkinson’s disease.