Arrested and deported redhead spy extraordinaire Anna Chapman is reportedly taking bids from reporters to have the first opportunity to interview her, according to Julia Ioffe’s Twitter stream. She’s also resumed posting to her incredi...
George Friedman of STRATFOR has published a new analysis which argues that the role of the undercover Russian spy ring was most likely to recruit talent and deep embedded sources, not collect the intelligence themselves. This speculation com...
Here is the second video in the “Russian Untouchables” series from Bill Browder’s people, focusing on what the Russian government has done (or rather, what they have not done) to hold Maj. Pavel Karpov responsible for the tax reb...
Amnesty International has released a statement which describes the convictions handed down against art curators Andrei Yerofeyev and Yuri Samodurov of the Andrei Sakharov Museum and Public Centre as “a blow to freedom of expression.”&n...
I’ve been getting a lot of phone calls lately from people asking me to comment on the exchange of the Russian spies for … other Russian spies. Just in this one fact alone you can feel the obvious idiocy of the situation. They exchanged...
I’m not sure anybody has “won” the spy swap, but here goes some unnamed sources talking to the Financial Times: “The ones the west has acquired are much more valuable than the ones sent back to Russia,” said a former ...
Writing in Asia Times Online, MK Bhadrakumar has a good article reviewing Sec. of State Hillary Clinton’s recent tour of the former Soviet neighborhood, and a number of stinging statements in response from Russia’s Ministry of Foreign ...
Below, an excerpt from the Boston Globe book review of John Mosier’s Deathride: Hitler vs. Stalin — The Eastern Front, 1941-1945. I wonder if such a text would be banned by Russia’s history commission (if it still exists).&...
We’ve blogged in the past about Peter Early’s book on the Russian turncoat spy Sergei Tretyakov, and today’s news of his death at the age of 53 comes as a very big surprise, especially given all the attention to his disclosures o...
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