Shoygu, Kadyrov and FSB fight over plan to appoint new deputy emergency situations minister

Donetsk takes a page from Russia's anti-terrorist playbook 

The self-proclaimed republic of Donetsk's main security and intelligence institution has handed the keys for its security infrastructure to Russian emissaries.

Mikhail Anichkin, the ubiquitous private security providers' 'ambassador' to the Kremlin 

Former intelligence officer Mikhail Anichkin has carved out a role for himself connecting the heads of private security companies, known as "tchopi", and has become a leading interlocutor for Kremlin bodies eager to regulate this field.

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FSB comes back in from the cold 

Benefitting from the rising number of incidents on Russia's periphery and the careful staging of its response to these, the national security service has returned to the forefront of Russian politics after being given the cold shoulder over its strategic errors on Ukraine.

Disbanded threat intelligence firm AdvIntel staff regroup at Red Sense 

Close colleagues of AdvIntel's late founder Vitali Kremez have migrated to Red Sense, an intelligence firm tracking threats, especially from Russia and Russian-speaking countries.

Influx of Russian hackers benefits Abu Dhabi's cyber offensive capabilities 

Beacon Red, the Edge Group conglomerate's Emirati cyber subsidiary, has hired a wave of cyber engineers fleeing Russia after the invasion of Ukraine. Intelligence Online understands the Russian recruits are being housed on a site separate from the rest of the company.

Kremlin-linked Kiriyenkos consolidate influence over cyber and big data markets 

Anton Gerasimov's appointment as deputy head of the Ministry of Emergencies adds another link in the chain forming between the Ministry of Digitalisation and Rostelecom around presidential adviser Sergey Kiriyenko.

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.

Ruselectronics at centre of Russian Safe City monitoring programme 

Border surveillance, which has returned to the top of the list of critical projects carried out by the Rostec arms conglomerate, is mobilising all the know-how of its subsidiary Ruselectronics. Moscow has decided to move up a gear in the Safe City programme.