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Spotlight RUSSIA UNITED KINGDOM Issue dated 10/10/2018

British intelligence goes gunning for GRU

MI6 and allied intelligence services have launched an unprecedented operation against the Kremlin to divide Russia's security apparatus. [...] (544 words)

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