The financial capital of the American Midwest and one of the world's leading commodity trading centres, Chicago is currently the scene of an intense game of musical chairs, provoked by the end of the Berkeley Research Group's practice.
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Corporate Intel A group of Belarusian volunteers, Kalinovsky, is defending Ukrainian territory against Russian forces. Together with the Bypol organisation, it is also preparing for a new regime once Alexander Lukashenko is gone, in liaison with the Warsaw diaspora.
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Defence Western sanctions and their consequences have forced the Russian oligarch of Uzbek origin Alisher Usmanov to cease working with most of his London consultants. Yet one of them, Alexei Seleznev, is still taking care of his affairs locally.
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Israel and Turkey had been warming to one another, but recent recommendations from Israel's national security council, warning Israelis to avoid travel to Turkey because of Iranian activisim, have put up a roadblock.
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Agencies The legal battle between France's domestic intelligence agency, the DGSI, and one of its former officers, Eric M., suspected of being too close to the US intelligence community, should soon come to a close before the Council of State.
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Agencies The Moscow-based firm, which even operates in foreign military theatres, nurtures its security networks through its chief lobbyist, Vadim Shustov.
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Corporate Intel Appointed head of G42 Cloud in January, Talal Al Kaissi has been receptive to a charm offensive by US companies and that of their business contacts, providing a ray of hope for Washington that's alarmed by the inroads into the UAE by China's Huawei.
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