France, Russia
Franco-Russian reset edges forward

The Agencies' Gazette
DGSE, Kazakhstan's KGB

Appointments, reforms and the issues at stake: every Monday, Intelligence Online serves up snippets big and small from the global intelligence community from London to Paris via Nur-Sultan.

Paris the DGSE adopts a TREX

Nur-Sultan the new KNB master's rise signals victory for the Tokayev camp

Paris DGSE more careful on the internet than DGSI

Spotlight | Russia
Afinogenov serves as intermediary between Novatek, Total and Russian security services

Dmitry Afinogenov, an intermediary between the Kremlin and Novatek, the lead company on the Arctic Yamal project, was reupped as a member of the Russian National Security Council's scientific committee on 11 May.

France, Russia
From Russia with love - to French military intelligence

The Conseil d'Etat has upheld the ministerial reprimand against a French paratrooper who sent postcards from Moscow to members of the French defence and security intelligence service, the DRSD (Direction du Renseignement et de la Sécurité de la Défense).

Europe, France
UK to lead European intelligence community

In the coming days, Britain is due to take over [...]

France, Russia, United Kingdom, United States
French absent from international cooperation that led to GRU hackers' indictment

When US prosecutors thanked allies for their help in bringing charges against six Russian military intelligence officials last week, there was no mention of France.

France, Russia
French military gets in tune with Macron's Russian détente

According to Intelligence Online's sources, around thirty top-ranking French military auditors from the Centre des Hautes Etudes Militaires (CHEM) visited [...]

France, Russia
Paris diplomat sent to de-escalate cyber scuffle with Moscow

The French ambassador for digital affairs Henri Verdier's trip to Moscow on November 15 capped off a series of steps taken by President Emmanuel Macron to take the wind out of a potential mounting cyber storm with Russia – at the risk of stepping on Washington's toes.

France, Russia
Quarrel at Trianon Dialogue

At a time when French President Emmanuel Macron is keen to achieve a strategic rapprochement with Russian leader Vladimir Putin, [...]

France, Russia
Elysee differences over Russia

President Emmanuel Macron's new openness to Russia, marked by President [...]

France, Russia
Emmanuel Macron's Russian moves cause unease at foreign ministry

With Dimitry Medvedev due to visit France at the end of June, some French foreign ministry officials are unhappy about the French president's diplomatic strategy on Russia.

France, Russia
Emmanuel Macron seeks detente with Vladimir Putin

According to our sources, Jean-Pierre Chevenement, France's special envoy to [...]

France, Russia
Foreign ministry, DGSE and ANSSI partly iron out disagreements with Russia

Diplomats and intelligence services have negotiated throughout the summer to try to resolve security differences that have dragged on between France and Russia.

Europe
IS deploys Caucasian agents

The attack in Istanbul on June 28 is understood to have been carried out by Chechen Ahmed Chataev. His involvement shows that as well as being fierce fighters in battle, the Caucasian members of Islamic State are also useful for external operations.

Russia's Wagner group offers to help Khalifa Haftar in the Fezzan

In addition to the diplomatic support given him by Moscow, Khalifa Haftar also receives less public Russian aid via military services company ChVK Wagner. The company, which is in the private sector but under the authority of the Kremlin, is [.