The intelligence officer, who is as close to President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev as his predecessor was to Nursultan Nazarbayev, is starting his role as the new interior intelligence chief with the hefty task of staffing the country's security services with agents closer to the current executive.
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Agencies Shaurya Duval, the son of Indian national security adviser Ajit Doval and head of the India Foundation think-tank, looks to be the keenest promoter of the Make In India partnership between France and India in New Delhi.
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Corporate Intel Former Kazakh armed forces and intelligence service veterans, now working for private sector security operator Grupp Chetyre, are to provide protection for the EU delegation in Kazakhstan.
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Following Russia's attack on Ukraine, information, and who controls it, has become even more vital to both sides as they try to shape the narrative on the war to their liking, with scrutiny of European media reports high in Kyiv and Moscow.
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Information wars Keith Alexander's cybersecurities firm IronNet continues to pursue markets in the Gulf states with a new, secret public contract, on the heels of its partner Amazon which is poised to open a new office in Kuwait.
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