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CHINA IRAQ MOLDOVA RUSSIA TURKEY

Moldovan security council, Russia's data border crack down, Xi Jinping and Moscow, Ankara struggling with PKK

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 Ankara, Moscow, Chisinau and Beijing. [...] (365 words)

Published on 16/01/2023 at 06:00 GMT Reading time 2 minutes

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Cristina Gherasimov
Kurdistan Workers' Party
Maia Sandu
Maksut Chadaev
MIT
Roskomnadzor
Supreme Security Council
Veaceslav Negruta
Vladimir Putin
Xi Jinping

Former political prisoner Entifadh Qanbar inks deal to foster closer US-Kurdish ties

A former representative of the Iraqi National Congress, the US government-backed group that promoted the overthrow of Saddam Hussein, Qanbar has been leading an advocacy campaign that was approved by Kurdish Prime Minister Masrour Barzani.

The president of the Kurdish Protection Action Committee, Entifadh Qandar.

RUSSIA 15/11/2022

Boosted by Kremlin, telecoms regulator Roskomnadzor steps up surveillance projects

The state control agency is playing an increasingly central role in the setting-up of a "sovereign internet" wanted by the Kremlin. Moscow is especially counting on the agency's public communications network surveillance and control centre, headed by ex-FSO officer Sergei Khutortsev.

RUSSIA 14/11/2022

Russia's digital development minister caught in power struggle between Kremlin rivals

Maksut Shadayev has come under various forms of pressure behind the scenes in recent weeks. Shadayev, a protege of Putin's deputy chief of staff Sergey Kiriyenko, has a say over a number of crucial security contracts.

RUSSIA 04/11/2022

Siloviki eye facial recognition as potential windfall in their search for funds

With the final touches being put to the 2023 federal budget, Moscow's political class and biometric technology providers are queuing up for the public funds that could be allocated to facial recognition projects.

CHINA RUSSIA UKRAINE 03/10/2022

Beijing intervenes again in response to Moscow's nuclear threat

Discussions within the Russian high command indicate that Moscow is preparing for an operational, rather than political, use of the nuclear threat in Ukraine. Behind the scenes in Beijing, there is support for the Kremlin's aggressive rhetoric, but not for the execution plans.

IRAQ TURKEY 23/09/2022

Hakan Fidan makes his moves on Iraq's complex political chessboard

The Turkish spymaster, tasked with meeting Iraqi politicians, now stands accused of interfering in the country's internal affairs. But this hasn't stopped him discreetly calling for the formation of a government that would guarantee Ankara's security and economic interests.

RUSSIA 18/07/2022

Moscow stirs up personal data hornet's nest

Personal data, biometric data, civil registration: Russia's lawmakers have been tweaking the law to give its security services greater control of these hot-button files.

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MIT
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Moldovan security council, Russia's data border crack down, Xi Jinping and Moscow, Ankara struggling with PKK

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Former political prisoner Entifadh Qanbar inks deal to foster closer US-Kurdish ties

Boosted by Kremlin, telecoms regulator Roskomnadzor steps up surveillance projects

Russia's digital development minister caught in power struggle between Kremlin rivals

Siloviki eye facial recognition as potential windfall in their search for funds

Beijing intervenes again in response to Moscow's nuclear threat

Hakan Fidan makes his moves on Iraq's complex political chessboard

Moscow stirs up personal data hornet's nest

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