Spotlight
The protests in Kazakhstan have had an impact on the energy sector, which has seen heads roll among those close to ex-president Nursultan Nazarbayev. Russia's SVR is keeping a close watch on proceedings. [...]
Entwined with its goal to lock in control of the small Caucasus republic, starting with the local oligarchs who have since been ousted from the power sectors, is the Kremlin's desire to create new openings towards Iran for its national energy groups Gazprom and Rosseti. [...]
Kic Systems and sister company Eurotrends have been accused of helping their customers win European tenders. Though these cases have been dismissed, one such client - Belgian firm ECO3 - has been ordered to reimburse one of its contracts, the award process of which the European Commission found to be "substantially irregular". [...]
Chapsvision, which is determined to take up a dominant position among French cyber intelligence industry, has taken control of French interceptions specialist Elektron from the waning Nexa Technologies group. [...]
Legal efforts to corner the arch-enemy of #Kazakhstan's ENRC group Neil Gerrard are proceeding on three continents, increasingly exposing the activities of the intelligence firms involved. Amit Forlit is the latest to come under scrutiny. https://t.co/cxFG7PLmOd
Even as the White House briefly took a more tempered pitch in the on-going trading of threats between the US and Russia over Ukraine, US aid, backed with new Western arms suppliers, continues to reach the country https://t.co/h3B5tUqMqe
Purple Mountain Laboratories' successful trial of a 6G chip at unprecedented transmission speed gives the People's Liberation Army scope to ramp up its cyber capacities. #China https://t.co/ocmQAyawKi