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Czech Republic and allies break up Belarus spy network across Europe

The Czech Republic’s counterintelligence agency says it has broken up a spy network being built by Belarus

The Independent UK · Sep 9, 2025

Czech Republic, Romania and Hungary break up Belarus spy network in Europe

The Czech intelligence agency said Belarus managed to create the network because its diplomats are able to freely travel across European countries.

Euronews · Sep 8, 2025

The Defector: KGB agent's defection after Soho drink drive arrest changed the shape of the Cold War

The Evening Standard scooped the world in 1971 with the first and only picture of Russian defector Oleg Lyalin, who is now the subject of a compelling new book

Evening Standard · Sep 4, 2025

'25 percent chance': Trump team ratchets up, down goals for Putin summit - Roll Call

President Trump and aides have raised and lowered expectations for his Friday summit with Vladimir Putin, making the meeting hard to grade.

Roll Call · Aug 14, 2025

Voices: When Trump and Putin go head to head in Alaska, who wins?

COMMENT: Friday’s summit in Alaska between the two leaders to discuss how to end the war in Ukraine will show that it is the cunning former KGB officer who understands the art of the deal, says Sean O’Grady

The Independent UK · Aug 12, 2025

Derk Sauer obituary

Media proprietor and founder of the Moscow Times who championed independent journalism in his adopted home country of Russia

The Guardian - UK · Aug 8, 2025

'Trump is falling for Putin's flattery'- Russian opposition activist, Kara-Murza

Russian opposition activist and former political prisoner, Vladimir Kara Murza says Western leaders’ treatment of Putin in the past was "shocking and shameful", and gave Putin leeway and erode democracy in Russia.

Euronews · Jul 31, 2025

Friday essay: ‘nothing quite like it in the history of espionage’ – the Russian spies who pretended to be American

In the thrilling finale of the TV series The Americans, set during the Reagan administration, deep-cover KGB operatives Philip and Elizabeth Jennings are faced with a difficult decision. Posing as an ordinary American married couple, for decades they have raised children, filed tax returns and slipped effortlessly into the rhythms…

The Conversation · Jul 17, 2025

From a rectal kit to a Berlin Wall-era transmitter: the artefacts of Australia’s spy museum which doesn’t exist – yet

More than a dozen intelligence services are represented in Mike Pritchard’s collection of spy gadgets. He wants to bring them to the world

The Guardian - AU · Jun 21, 2025

KGB defector turned to Britain only after US rejected him several times, book reveals

Vasili Mitrokhin defected in 1992 after spending years copying top-secret documents on Soviet spies and operations

The Guardian - UK · Jun 14, 2025