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Russian contraband, Xi Jinping delays Paris trip, FATF worries Monaco

Appointments, reforms and the issues at stake: every Monday, Intelligence Online serves up snippets big and small from the global intelligence community.

Russia/Iran/Azerbaijan FSB foils contraband of Tor missile components

China Xi puts Paris visit on ice after third plenum delay

Monaco Financial market holds breath over FATF report

Russia
Russia's NAIIS, dormant cyber think-tank and sinecure for ex-spies

In partial hibernation since its creation in 2018, the National Association for International Information Security (NAIIS) hosts retirees from the KGB and FSB as well as experts close to the national security council.

Russia, Serbia, Ukraine
Serbian recruits in Luhansk rebel amid intra-elite election competition

As Russia's ruling clans prepare to do battle in the lead up to March's presidential elections, troops on the ground see the intra-elite tensions as a means to push for better conditions.

Russia, Spain
Russian zero-day exploit researchers prosper in Barcelona

Catalonia is attracting a growing number of fleeing Russian cyber specialists.

Israel, Russia
Andrey Davidovich, opening doors for cyber consultants from Tel Aviv to Moscow

Businessman Andrey Davidovich builds bridges between Israeli and Russian businesses in the sector. He is also in a position to fill the space left by Israeli cyber consultants in Myanmar to the benefit of their Russian counterparts.

North Korea, Russia
Russia planning for half a million North Koreans to replace Muslim construction workers

Amid concessions to Pyongyang and the FSB's new ethno-security considerations, Moscow is secretly preparing to import 500,000 North Korean workers.

Russia, United States
FSB contractor maintains links with US tech company

The FORS Group provides a way for Oracle technology to find its way into Russia.

Russia
Zarya, guardian of Russia's space programme secrets, joins list of strategic companies

Part of the Russian state agency Roscosmos, Zarya protects information on space and defence programmes, working closely with the intelligence services.

France, Russia
French intelligence delves back into Chechen diaspora

At a time of heightened terrorism threat, the main exiled Chechen leaders are refocusing on radicalisation prevention among their youth, an issue that had been put on the back burner in the wake of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

Ukraine
Agents from Kyiv's foreign intelligence service active on frontline

The discreet Ukrainian intelligence agency, the SZRU, is typically seen as a bureaucratic machine dedicated primarily to analysis production. It is, however, implicated on the ground.

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CIA acquisitions, Foreign Affairs Committee, Huawei in France, navy training centre, Moldova fights fake news, lustration in Ukraine

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 Washington, Kyiv, London, Brest, Paris and Chisinau.

United StatesLeadership change afoot in CIA acquisitions office

United KingdomForeign Affairs Committee learns from US intelligence consultants

FranceWhen the intelligence services reportedly tried to ban Huawei

FranceBrest navy intelligence training centre welcomes first pupils

MoldovaSandu protégé to run anti-disinformation centre

UkraineKyiv goes back on its lustration laws