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Government Intelligence 07/12/2021

Kyiv reviews its troops after alert over supposed Moscow and Akhmetov-backed coup

Police officers stand guard outside the parliament building as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky addresses lawmakers during a parliamentary session in Kyiv, Ukraine, 1 December 2021. © Gleb Garanich/Reuters

Corporate Intelligence 03/12/2021

EU serves Moscow its terms for Russia's 'tax havens'

Russian Finance Minister Anton Siluanov has revived the issue of special administrative zones, also known as Russian offshores. © Pierre Lévy/Twitter

International Dealmaking 01/12/2021

Framatome and Rosatom support Kazakhstan's nuclear ambitions

The appointment of a new boss at state-owned Kazatomprom coincides with a speeding up of Kazakh civil nuclear ambitions. The sector has attracted foreign partners as diverse as the part-public China General Nuclear Power Corporation, Russia's state owned Rosatom and France's Framatome. [...]

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Government Intelligence 29/11/2021

The information war between Kyiv and Moscow reaches fever pitch

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky held a lengthy press conference with selected journalists on 26 November. © Presidential Press Service/Handout/EPA/MaxPPP

Government Intelligence 26/11/2021

NIIRK spymasters scrutinise Baltic and Central Asian countries via state media

NIIRK, the small scientific research centre made up of ex-KGB agents is making assessment of "communication flows" a central priority. It is examining these in the three Baltic countries and five Central Asian states where Moscow is trying to push its narratives using soft power tools, such as the Rossotrudnichestvo and state media outlets. [...]

Surveillance & Interception 24/11/2021

Russia's Operation Zero enters increasingly political zero-day market

As Washington seeks to regulate the sale of vulnerabilities to its advantage, a new Russian player has emerged on the scene: Operation Zero, founded by researcher Sergey Zelenyuk. [...]

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Government Intelligence 23/11/2021

Next generation of Russian siloviki blocked by old guard

The Kremlin allowed its most powerful generals to stay on an extra 5 years beyond retirement age and is now looking to extend their careers even further on an ad hoc basis, dashing the prospects of younger officers. [...]

Corporate Intelligence 19/11/2021

KGB-FSB veterans who attacked the Kremlin have since gone into business

An open letter which criticised the Kremlin over its handling of the parliamentary elections in September, the country's standard of living and the decline in patriotism was published by the Russian Communist Party in early November. [...]

Government Intelligence 12/11/2021

SBU accuses FSB of masterminding Armageddon group 'cyber-occupation'

By blaming the Crimean FSB for the cyber attacks made by advanced persistent threat group Armageddon, the SBU is looking to sensitise its foreign partners to the threat it feels it is facing as a result of the invasion of its cyber space by Russia and its allies. [...]

Corporate Intelligence 12/11/2021

Tuncay Ozilhan takes care of Turkey's business interests in strategic Tatarstan market

Keen as it is to keep up its long-standing trading relationship with Russia, Turkey can count in this respect on its business ambassadors in Kazan, capital of Tatarstan. Among the latter, Tuncay Ozilhan seems to be particularly influential. [...]

Turkish businessman Tuncay Ozilhan. © Anadolu Efes

International Dealmaking 10/11/2021

Moscow deploys military exports supremo Shugaev to sell the S550 to New Delhi

Russia has informally entrusted Dmitry Shugaev, the putative heir to Rostec chief Sergey Chemezov, with the strategic mission of selling its new anti-air defence system to the Indian Army. [...]

Indian Defence and Production Secretary Shri Raj Kumar with FSVTS Chief Dmitry Shugaev. © @IndEmbMoscow/Twitter

Corporate Intelligence 05/11/2021

Disgraced oligarch Telman Ismailov's troubles follow him to the French Riviera

The Azerbaijan-born billionaire Telman Ismailov, whose assets his Moscow debtors have been doggedly hunting since 2017, has managed to secure asylum in Montenegro. There he should have some respite to sort out his affairs stretching from Moscow to Las Vegas and Ankara to the French Alps. [...]

Telman Ismaïlov. © Telman Ismailov Twitter account

Government Intelligence 04/11/2021

Afghan tensions affords Bishkek spymasters strategic regional role

Taking advantage of the renewed prominence of Central Asia following the Afghan outbursts, the Kyrgyz spymasters are seeking to consolidate their position and to assert the interests of Bishkek in the regional dynamics between Beijing, Islamabad and New Delhi. [...]

Government Intelligence 03/11/2021

Moscow takes keen interest in French ambassador appointment

Russia is one of the most sensitive ambassadorial slots the French foreign affairs ministry will have to decide upon next year and Moscow is determined to have some influence on the appointment. [...]

The current French Ambassador to Moscow, Pierre Lévy, with Russian President Vladimir Putin. © Alexey Nikolsky/Sputnik/Kremlin Pool/EPA/Newscom/MaxPPP

SpotlightGovernment Intelligence 01/11/2021

Mironov's Kremlin ascent follows in wake of new NS adviser Seryshev

Former VIP protection officer Dmitry Mironov is following in Anatoly Seryshev's footsteps to become the next presidential aide. Seryshev's rapid advancement in the complex apparatus of Russian power systems has paved the way for his replacement. [...]

Dmitry Mironov, assistant to President Vladimir Putin. © Alexei Druzhinin/Sputnik/Kremlin Pool/EPA/Newscom/MaxPPP

Government Intelligence 29/10/2021

Changes in FSB regional heads highlight rising stars

While FSB officers' assignments are often the subject of fierce rivalries between ambitious young men, the positions of regional heads are kept for the most promising among them. The new postings give a glimpse of some of Moscow's future leaders but also reveal those who are being dispensed with for having not met Russia's domestic spy agency's expectations. [...]

International Dealmaking 28/10/2021

A legal row has broken out between two Pentagon Soviet air industry specialists

After having worked together on contracts to maintain Russian aircraft used by the US's allies, Richard J. Douglas and Farhad Abid are now fighting each other before the courts. [...]

Corporate Intelligence 28/10/2021

New Russian-Moldovan employers' organisation hires Moldova's ex-president Dodon Free

Russian business diplomacy has a new asset in Moldova in ex-president Igor Dodon, bolstering the influence it already has through Boris Titov's dynasty and the soft-power institution Rossotrudnichestvo. [...]

Former president of Moldova, Igor Dodon. © Dumitru Doru/Efe/Newscom/MaxPPP

Corporate Intelligence 27/10/2021

Under US pressure, Deripaska hopes supporters can provide relief in Europe

The FBI conducted a new raid on 19 October on a Washington house possibly belonging to Oleg Deripaska, but the oligarch is still hoping to see the sanctions against Russia - which de facto affect his empire - lifted in Europe. [...]

FBI raids Washington home linked to Russia's Deripaska, on 19 October 2021. © Tom Brenner/Reuters

International Dealmaking 26/10/2021

Sergey Shishkarev guides UAE in Arctic

Abu Dhabi has turned to the help of businessman Sergey Shishkarev, the head of Delo Group, to make its mark in Russia. Active in the logistics sector, Shishkarev is particularly familiar with the Arctic. [...]

Delo Group founder and president Sergei Shishkarev on 20 July 2021. © Dmitry Feoktistov/TASS via Reuters Connect

Government Intelligence 25/10/2021

Vadim Rabinovich champions fellow parliamentarians' pro-Russia cause in Moscow

Ukrainian MP Rabinovich, a staunch defender of the pro-Russia faction within Kyiv's Rada, met with longtime Putin aide Dmitry Kozak last week. Both men have close ties to Kremlin-friendly Ukrainian oligarch Viktor Medvedchuk. [...]

Ukrainian MP Vadim Rabinovich. © Andrei Ratmirov/TASS via Reuters Connect

Government Intelligence 22/10/2021

Kiev quietly fuming over Russian memorial to Soviet-era secret agent in Crimea

Being both head of the SVR and chairman of the Russian Historical Society puts Sergey Naryshkin in a position to reinstate a number of Soviet-era intelligence officers and in doing so furthering the Kremlin's regional strategy. [...]

Government Intelligence 21/10/2021

Personality protection service serves as siloviki incubator for the Kremlin

Dmitry Mironov's recent promotion to the post of assistant to the Russian president has confirmed the role of the FSO (Federal Protective Service) as a producer of promising silovikis. It was a blow, however, to the FSB, the federal security service which has traditionally fulfilled this unofficial role. [...]

Dmitry Mironov, assistant to the president of Russia. © Alexei Druzhinin/Sputnik/ Kremlin Pool//EPA/Newscom/MaxPPP

International Dealmaking 20/10/2021

Rosatom taps French contacts to make headway on hydrogen programmes

In the wake of its joint projects with Gazprom, Rosatom has locked in several foreign partnerships. One such alliance is with French group EDF, building on plans to make gains through strong networks in Paris and Brussels built by its local branches-cum-lobbyists. [...]

Government Intelligence 20/10/2021

CIS spymasters take their orders from Moscow

Summoned to Moscow by the SVR ahead of a CIS summit, the intelligence chiefs of its member states were given a list of urgent issues ranked by order of regional priority. Afghanistan stands out as a primary focus but US influence is never far from the picture. [...]

Serguei Narychkine, head of the SVR. © Tass/Alamy

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ALL ARTICLES - RUSSIA

Kyiv reviews its troops after alert over supposed Moscow and Akhmetov-backed coup

EU serves Moscow its terms for Russia's 'tax havens'

Framatome and Rosatom support Kazakhstan's nuclear ambitions

The information war between Kyiv and Moscow reaches fever pitch

NIIRK spymasters scrutinise Baltic and Central Asian countries via state media

Russia's Operation Zero enters increasingly political zero-day market

Next generation of Russian siloviki blocked by old guard

KGB-FSB veterans who attacked the Kremlin have since gone into business

SBU accuses FSB of masterminding Armageddon group 'cyber-occupation'

Tuncay Ozilhan takes care of Turkey's business interests in strategic Tatarstan market

Moscow deploys military exports supremo Shugaev to sell the S550 to New Delhi

Disgraced oligarch Telman Ismailov's troubles follow him to the French Riviera

Afghan tensions affords Bishkek spymasters strategic regional role

Moscow takes keen interest in French ambassador appointment

Mironov's Kremlin ascent follows in wake of new NS adviser Seryshev

Changes in FSB regional heads highlight rising stars

A legal row has broken out between two Pentagon Soviet air industry specialists

New Russian-Moldovan employers' organisation hires Moldova's ex-president Dodon Free

Under US pressure, Deripaska hopes supporters can provide relief in Europe

Sergey Shishkarev guides UAE in Arctic

Vadim Rabinovich champions fellow parliamentarians' pro-Russia cause in Moscow

Kiev quietly fuming over Russian memorial to Soviet-era secret agent in Crimea

Personality protection service serves as siloviki incubator for the Kremlin

Rosatom taps French contacts to make headway on hydrogen programmes

CIS spymasters take their orders from Moscow

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