The Agencies' Gazette
DGSI interpreter loses job, secret Arctic diplomacy flounders

The Agencies' Gazette
DGSE drama, career officer for Leningrad, Italy-China dialogue

Appointments, reforms and the issues at stake: every Monday, Intelligence Online serves up snippets big and small from the global intelligence community.

FranceDGSE, DGSI and DRM reshuffle drama in parliament recounted

RussiaSukhrab Akhmedov firm favourite to head new Leningrad military district

Italy/ChinaAfter Silk Roads exit, time for strategic dialogue

Spotlight | Russia, United States
Moscow flexes its muscles in the Arctic, Pentagon sees a smokescreen

Moscow has been trying to demonstrate the hardening of its security posture in the Arctic, leaking its efforts to mine Arctic waters and engage in electronic warfare. But US intelligence analysts see this as a Russian attempt to mask the collapse of its operational capabilities in the region.

Spotlight | Russia, United States
Geneva think-tank uses private diplomacy to try to reconcile Moscow and Washington over the Arctic

Far North security experts have begun multilateral talks under the auspices of a Swiss think-tank. Participants from the United States, Russia and Norway are supposed to keep in touch with their respective security agencies, given that all official communication channels have been cut.

Russia, UAE
Russia's Novatek develops offshore ruse to pursue flagship Arctic LNG 2 project

Faced with the withdrawal of France's Technip and Italy's Saipem from its liquefied natural gas project in Siberia, Arctic LNG 2, Russian gas giant Novatek is going through an unknown company in Abu Dhabi. Its aim is to keep procuring the technologies it lacks, but below the radar.