The subtle power game that enabled Vladimir Putin to run Russia during his first presidential mandate has ended. The game helped him to steer between conflicting political pressure exercised on one side by the "liberal" oligarchs who made their fortune [.
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To ensure the House of Saud clings to power come what may, Saudi Arabia's second generation princes - sons of [...]
The German counter-espionage agency Bundesverfas-sungschutz (BfV) is highly concerned about a possible drive by Chinese intelligence against Uygur dissidents living [...]
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A lot of behind-the-scenes bargaining is going on over the huge MIKSA contract to equip Saudi Arabia with a surveillance [...]
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The new boss of France's police intelligence agency Renseignements Generaux (RG), Pascal Mailhos, has made a sharp break with the [...]
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Francois Lureau, a managing director at Thales who has just been named head of the French armaments board Delegation Generale pour l'Armement (DGA), is a man with a lot of top-line connections.
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Israel is making careful preparations to pull out of the Gaza strip and the Israelis and Americans seem intent on handing over power in the territory to Hamas.
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France's Secretariat General a la Defense Nationale is discreetly picking up additional powers. The organization finds itself active on every front at present.
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Since the beginning of the year power has begun to swing from one side to the other in Saudi Arabia.
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A surprise proposal by Austrian interior minister Ernst Strasser to [...]
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The Belgian Parliament's Comite R which oversees the operations of [...]
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It's difficult to measure the impact it will have but [...]
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The lifting of diplomatic sanctions against Iraq has stirred considerable [...]
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By opening an institute in Brussels, the American Jewish Committee appears intent on importing the lobbying methods it uses in Congress into Europe and to have American Jewish organizations dictate strategy to their European counterparts.
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The Kissinger Associates firm founded by ex-secretary of state Henry Kissinger has just taken on Donald Bandler, former U.S. ambassador [...]
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Founder of the investigative firm Decision Strategies, Bart Schwartz has run into trouble because of his frequent comings and goings [...]
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With an estimated $10 billion in fresh contracts expected to be handed out in Iraq starting from next month, companies [...]
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Although it has attracted far less funding than Iraq, the reconstruction of Afghanistan has whet the appetite of a number [...]
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The German intelligence agencies believe China is using the certification of imported goods as a new form of economic espionage.
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The European Commission is financing a feasibility study on a project to build a direct pipeline between Siberia and Germany that would by-pass the Baltic republics.
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Regularly denounced as a source of funding for terrorist groups, several Saudi welfare associations -the International Islamic Relief Organization, the [...]
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The Israeli conglomerate Merhav has just renewed the account it has had for 10 years with the U.S. firm Cassidy & Associates which defends the group's interests in Washington and Central Asia.
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Prince Abdul Aziz bin Bandar bin Abdul Aziz who was [...]
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Named by president Bashar Assad as Syria's new ambassador to [...]
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Head of the British investigative firm Hakluyt & Company, William [...]
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Serving as New York Police Commissioner when Rudolph Guiliani was [...]
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A recent trip to Egypt by Mossad chief gen. Meir [...]
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The experts in electronic design automation (EDA) who met in [...]
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The U.S. cybersecurity czar, Amit Yoran, who was appointed at [...]
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Recent months have been dominated by a lot of news [...]
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As network centric systems develop in both government and corporate [...]
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How to find a needle in a haystack? That's the [...]
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