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Russian spy to participate in UN roundtables on fighting organised crime

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Protecting state secrets, Rosatom facing DNI, Hakan Fidan and Syria, French DPR and foreign interference

Appointments, reforms and the issues at stake: every Monday, Intelligence Online serves up snippets big and small from the global intelligence community, from Moscow to Washington via Ankara and Paris.

RussiaSergey Alpatov gets greater state secrets privileges

United States/RussiaRosatom in DNI's crosshairs

Turkey/SyriaEx-spymaster Hakan Fidan keeps lead on Syria discussions

FranceDPR examining foreign interference

Russia
New FSB special forces chief takes charge

Alexander Bondarenko is the new commander of the FSB's special forces and will oversee counter-terrorism, critical infrastructure protection and operational support operations in Ukraine. Predecessor Alexander Tikhonov is stepping down following a legal scandal.

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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.

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FSB: General Tkachev to be promoted

According to our sources, General Ivan Tkachev, the head of the "K" directorate of the FSB, in charge of financial [...]

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FSB rising star Sergey Alpatov destabilised by in-fighting

The intelligence wars continue in Moscow despite the coronavirus outbreak. In recent weeks major shifts have taken place in several Russian centres of power against a backdrop of political uncertainty.

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Serguei Korolev places friends at FSB

FSB economic intelligence service chief Serguei Korolev, a rising star [...]

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Sergei Korolev

Sergei Korolev, the head of the economic protection department of [...]