Spotlight | France, Russia
Russian intelligence 'defectors' pose a problem for Western counter-intelligence

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Vladimir Osechkin, French military attaché in Yerevan, new Belt & Road preparations

Appointments, reforms and the issues at stake: every Monday, Intelligence Online serves up snippets big and small from the global intelligence community. This week, we bring news from Moscow, Biarritz, Yerevan and Baku.

France/RussiaCommunicator Vladimir Osechkin exposed for false defector evacuations

France/Armenia/AzerbaijanParis's impossible balancing act in Yerevan

ChinaThird Belt & Road forum preparations underway in Beijing

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Russian defectors, Netanyahu takes Shin Bet head to Amman, US spy integration procedures reviewed

Appointments, reforms and the issues at stake: every Monday, Intelligence Online serves up snippets big and small from the global intelligence community. This week, we bring news from Oslo, Amman, Washington and Moscow.

Norway/France/Russia Russian defector's story challenged

Israel/Jordan Shin Bet director joins Netanyahu on reassurance mission in Amman

United States Intelligence services revise their integration procedures

United States Congress scrutinises DIA's HR management

Russia
Russian spy to participate in UN roundtables on fighting organised crime

A domestic intelligence officer has joined the Russian delegation taking part in the United Nations working groups on fighting transnational organised crime. The spy will be particularly attentive to regulations and technical assistance solutions for tracking embezzled or corrupt assets.

Russia
Vladimir Selin: the FSB's man in charge of protecting state secrets

Vladimir Selin, head of the Federal Service for Technical and Export Control, also heads the inter-ministerial committee for the protection of state secrets, which is tightly controlled by the FSB. Its main purpose is to oversee the systems used to protect vital, strategic information.

Ukraine
Kyiv plans tighter administrative control in Russian-controlled territories

Capitalising on what it presents as major successes, Ukraine is making the most of strong public support to plan the next counteroffensive over the coming weeks. Kyiv has drawn up a new plan giving more powers to local administrators as the territories are clawed back.

Ukraine
Kyiv reviews its intelligence services' counter-intelligence capacities

Kyiv is drawing lessons from the first six months of its war with Russia, using the feedback it has received to gradually adapt the organisation of its intelligence effort, particularly its counter-espionage activities, to the needs thrown up by the conflict.

Russia, Ukraine
Beregini, the shadowy Ukrainian hacker group cheered by Russian intelligence

A self-described group of Ukrainian hackers acting against Kyiv's policies, Beregini, has been gathering strong public support from experts close to intelligence circles in Moscow.

Russia, Ukraine
Kyiv goes after FSB's mole recruitment unit

The Ukrainian intelligence services are keeping a very close eye on the actions of the FSB's operational information department, which has recruited several local operatives able to spread Russia's narrative within Ukraine.

Moscow prepares major Tripoli comeback

Russia, a long-time supporter of eastern strongman Khalifa Haftar, wants to clinch its rapprochement with the "transitional" authorities in Tripoli. The idea is to curtail US influence, get prepositioned in the oil game, and preserve military gains.