Intelligence Services
Moscow building ‘Our Lady of the Microphones’ in Paris
May 28, 2010By Paul Goble During Soviet times, US diplomats at the American embassy in Moscow often referred to a nearby Russian Orthodox Church as “Our Lady of the Microphones,” a reference to their assumption that the church served...
Russian intelligence services return to Ukraine's Crimea
May 21, 2010By Paul Goble Aleksandr Bortnikov, the head of Russia’s FSB, and Valery Khoroshkovsky, head of Ukraine’s SBU, have signed a five-year agreement that will allow Moscow again to put intelligence agents in Crimea, from which 19 such...
Moldova, Romania intelligence services resuming cooperation
March 19, 2010The heads of the Moldovan and Romanian intelligence services have spoken out for the resumption of the cooperation relations, as well as for planning concrete activities to combat terrorism, cross-border organised crime, trafficking of people, drugs,...
Russia Special Services Again Play the ‘Jewish Card’ against Ukraine
July 09, 2009By Paul Goble For entirely understandable reasons, there has been much speculation but little serious discussion about the specific role Moscow’s intelligence services have played in relations between Russia and the former Soviet republics in...
Moldovan SIS delegation participates in CIS' intelligence meeting
May 29, 2009A delegation of the Security and Information Service (SIS) participates in a meeting of the council of heads of the security bodies and special services from the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), held in Minsk on 28-29 May. The participants...