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Intelligence agencies of Russia. The intelligence agencies of the Russian Federation, often unofficially referred to in Russian as Special services (Russian: Спецслужбы ), include: Federal Security Service ( FSB ), an agency responsible for counter-intelligence and other aspects of state security as well as intelligence-gathering in ...
The Foreign Intelligence Service of the Russian Federation (Russian: Служба внешней разведки Российской Федерации, romanized: Sluzhba vneshney razvedki Rossiyskoy Federatsii, IPA: [ˈsluʐbə ˈvnʲɛʂnʲɪj rɐˈzvʲɛtkʲɪ]) or SVR RF (Russian: СВР РФ) is Russia's external intelligence agency ...
The Foreign Intelligence Service is part of the national-security system and is called upon to protect individuals, society and the state from foreign threats. The President of the Russian Federation oversees the activity of the Foreign Intelligence Service.
The Main Directorate of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, formerly the Main Intelligence Directorate, and still commonly known by its previous abbreviation GRU, is the foreign military intelligence agency of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation.
Apr 19, 2021 · 19 April 2021. What do we know about the Russian intelligence organisation, the GRU? If the definition of a successful intelligence service is obscurity, the GRU is probably Russia's most...
Feb 20, 2024 · The SVR, Russia’s foreign intelligence agency, saw its presence in Europe eviscerated, with some 600 officers expelled from embassies across the continent. Disastrously, at least eight...
Jun 29, 2010 · Russia's External Intelligence Service (SVR) is the current incarnation of one of the world's oldest and most extensive espionage agencies, known for decades as the KGB. It officially...
May 11, 2013 · Professor Haslam says it is important to see the role of Soviet intelligence agencies in the round, rather than through the eyes of only one agency. The KGB, which is by far the best known agency, deals only in human intelligence and with a focus on the civilian rather than military targets.
Aug 24, 2022 · While the scale of Russia’s battlefield setbacks have taken center stage in recent months, it was Russia’s intelligence agencies -- most notably the Federal Security Service (FSB) -- that...
Mar 29, 2023 · Russia's security and intelligence services have achieved greater success in Ukraine than its army, says a leading UK defence think tank. Russian spy agencies began preparing for the...
