Download or read book The Russian FSB written by Kevin P. Riehle and published by Georgetown University Press. This book was released on 2024-03-01 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An introduction to Putin’s formidable intelligence and security organization Since its founding in 1995, the FSB, Russia’s Federal Security Service, has regained the majority of the domestic security functions of the Soviet-era KGB. Under Vladimir Putin, who served as FSB director just before becoming president, the agency has grown to be one of the most powerful and favored organizations in Russia. The FSB not only conducts internal security but also has primacy in intelligence operations in former Soviet states. Their activities include anti-dissident operations at home and abroad, counterintelligence, counterterrorism, criminal investigations of crimes against the state, and guarding Russia’s borders. In The Russian FSB, Kevin P. Riehle provides a brief history of the FSB’s origins, placed within the context of Russian history, the government’s power structure, and Russia’s wider culture. He describes how the FSB’s mindset and priorities show continuities from the tsarist regimes and the Soviet era. The book’s chapters analyze origins, organizational structure, missions, leaders, international partners, and cultural representations such as the FSB in film and television. Based on both English and Russian sources, this book is a well-researched introduction to understanding the FSB and its central role in Putin’s Russia. Concise Histories of Intelligence SeriesChristopher Moran, Mark Phythian, and Mark Stout, Series Editors

Download or read book The Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation written by Gordon Bennett and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The New Nobility written by Andrei Soldatov and published by Public Affairs. This book was released on 2010-09-14 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A penetrating investigation into how the KGB rose from the ashes of the Soviet Union and reinvented itself at the heart of the Russian state during Vladimir Putin's rule

Download or read book The Russian Security Services Sorting Out the Pieces written by and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Russian Intelligence Agencies written by Source Wikipedia and published by University-Press.org. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 89. Chapters: Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation, GRU officers, Russia intelligence operations, Russian spies, SVR officers, Ministry of Internal Affairs, Russian apartment bombings, Illegals Program, Viktor Suvorov, Ignace Poretsky, Mike Hancock, Richard Sorge, Foreign Intelligence Service, Anna Chapman, Active measures, George Koval, Vladislav Surkov, Vladimir Kvachkov, Alexander Gregory Barmine, Walter Krivitsky, Oleg Penkovsky, Igor Gouzenko, Arbi Barayev, Alexander Rado, Ivan Serov, Pavel Sudoplatov, J nis K. B rzi, Herman Simm, Roman Mashkov, Vicky Pelaez, Aleksey Galkin, Stanislav Levchenko, List of deaths related to Russian apartment bombings, Stanislav Lunev, Manfred Stern, Cyberwarfare in Russia, FAPSI, Alexander Ulanovsky, Igor Sechin, Active reserve, Dimitri Floydorovich Sudayev, Ivan Susloparov, Dmitry Kozak, Leopold Trepper, Dmitry Gennadyevich Medvedev, Alfred Tilton, Paul William Hampel, Lubyanka Criminal Group, Dmitri Polyakov, Valentin Markin, Border Security Zone of Russia, Valentin Korabelnikov, Vladimir Alganov, Death of a Dissident, Vympel, Ivan Ilyichev, The New Nobility: The Restoration of Russia's Security State and the Enduring Legacy of the KGB, Simon Aralov, Edna Patterson, Boris Bukov, Russian Coast Guard, Pyotr Semyonovich Popov, John Stanislaw Kubary, Federal Counterintelligence Service, Bolshoy Dom, Valeri Zentsov, Shigehiro Hagisaki, Yuri Yevgenyevich Ivanov, Filipp Golikov, Yevgeni Ivanov, Ignacy Witczak, Lourdes SIGINT Station, Gorets mutiny, Anatoly Zotov, Alexander Shlyakhturov, Alexander Zaporozhsky.

Download or read book Russia s Corporate Soldiers written by Seth G. Jones and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-11-07 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report examines Russia’s growing use of private military companies (PMCs) to increase its influence through irregular means. In recent years, Moscow has expanded its overseas use of PMCs to countries such as Ukraine, Syria, Libya, Sudan, the Central African Republic, Madagascar, and Mozambique. Many of the PMCs operating in these countries, such as the Wagner Group, frequently cooperate with the Russian government—including the Kremlin, Ministry of Defense (particularly the Main Intelligence Directorate, or GRU), Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR), and Federal Security Service (FSB)—and perform a variety of combat, paramilitary, security, and intelligence tasks. However, many of these PMCs have a poor track record—including operational failures and human rights abuses—and there are opportunities to exploit PMC vulnerabilities. Although Russian PMCs present only one of a variety of national security threats and challenges facing the United States, this report assesses that they warrant a more substantive and coordinated response from the United States and its partners.

Download or read book Blowing Up Russia written by I︠U︡riĭ Felʹshtinskiĭ and published by Gibson Square Books. This book was released on 2007 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vividly written and based on Litvinenko's 20 year's of insider's knowledge of Russian spy campaigns and Yuri Felshtinsky's comprehensive academic knowledge, "Blowing up Russia" is a meticulous and gripping story how the secret organs of the Russian state are out of control and plotting a return to Russia as a state of terror. Writing about his co-author, Yuri Felshtinsky recounts how the banning of their book in Russia caused 3 related deaths.

Download or read book Russia s Intelligence Gathering Organizations written by Paul F. Kisak and published by . This book was released on 2017-08-03 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an unclassified overview of Russian Intelligence Agencies edited from open source material.The Intelligence Community in Russia consists of a complex series of intelligence agencies operating under the supervision of the National Security Council of Russia. The main Russian governmental services responsible for gathering foreign intelligence are: 1. Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) - The Foreign Intelligence Service reports directly to the President of Russia. 2. The GRU - Main Intelligence Directorate of the Military of Russia. 3. 12th Chief Directorate - 12th Directorate of the Ministry of Defense, responsible for Nuclear Security & 4. The Federal Security Service (FSB) - (formerly the KGB) The Federal Security Service is responsible for counter-intelligence, state security and anti-terrorist operations. The GRU first predecessor in post-tsarist Russia was created on October 21, 1918 under the sponsorship of Leon Trotsky, who was then the civilian leader of the Red Army. It was originally known as the Registration Directorate (RU). The GRU is the foreign military intelligence main directorate of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation (formerly the Soviet Army General Staff of the Soviet Union). The official full name is Main Intelligence Directorate of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. The GRU is Russia's largest foreign intelligence agency. In 1997 it deployed six times as many agents in foreign countries as the SVR, the successor of the KGB's foreign operations directorate. It also commanded 25,000 Spetsnaz troops in 1997. This book gives an unclassified overview of The Russian Intelligence Community.This book is designed to be a state of the art, superb academic reference work and provide an overview of the topic and give the reader a structured knowledge to familiarize yourself with the topic at the most affordable price possible.The accuracy and knowledge is of an international viewpoint as the edited articles represent the inputs of many knowledgeable individuals and some of the most current knowledge on the topic, based on the date of publication.

Download or read book Politics and the Ruling Group in Putin s Russia written by S. White and published by Springer. This book was released on 2008-06-11 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is little consensus about the nature of the political system that has emerged during the Putin presidency. This collection considers the issues arising in this connection, focusing more closely on institutions such as the presidency and the security police, and on the socioeconomic dimensions of political power.

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Download or read book Countering Urban Terrorism in Russia and the United States written by Russian Academy of Sciences and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2006-10-31 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In January-February 2005, the National Academies Committee on Counterterrorism Challenges for Russia and the United States and the Russian Academy of Sciences Standing Committee on Counterterrorism held a workshop on urban terrorism in Washington, D.C. Prior to the workshop, three working groups convened to focus on the topics of energy systems vulnerabilities, transportation systems vulnerabilities, and cyberterrorism issues. The working groups met with local experts and first responders, prepared reports, and presented their findings at the workshop. Other workshop papers focused on various organizations' integrated response to acts of urban terrorism, recent acts of terrorism, radiological terrorism, biological terrorism, cyberterrorism, and the roots of terrorism.

Download or read book Russian Security and Paramilitary Forces since 1991 written by Mark Galeotti and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2013-08-20 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A detailed illustrated study of Putin's shadowy security and paramilitary armed forces. While the size of Russia's regular forces has shrunk recently, its security and paramilitary elements have become increasingly powerful. Under the Putin regime they have proliferated and importantly seem set to remain Russia's most active armed agencies for the immediate future. In parallel, within the murky world where government and private interests intersect, a number of paramilitary 'private armies' operate almost as vigilantes, with government toleration or approval. This book offers a succinct overview of the official, semi-official and unofficial agencies that pursue Russian government and quasi-government objectives by armed means, from the 200,000-strong Interior Troops, through Police and other independent departmental forces, down to private security firms. Featuring rare photographs, and detailed colour plates of uniforms, insignia and equipment, this study by a renowned authority explores the Putin regime's shadowy special-forces apparatus, active in an array of counter-terrorist and counter-mafia wars since 1991.

Download or read book The New Nobility written by Andrei Soldatov and published by PublicAffairs. This book was released on 2010-09-14 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The New Nobility, two courageous Russian investigative journalists open up the closed and murky world of the Russian Federal Security Service. While Vladimir Putin has been president and prime minister of Russia, the Kremlin has deployed the security services to intimidate the political opposition, reassert the power of the state, and carry out assassinations overseas. At the same time, its agents and spies were put beyond public accountability and blessed with the prestige, benefits, and legitimacy lost since the Soviet collapse. The security services have played a central -- and often mysterious -- role at key turning points in Russia during these tumultuous years: from the Moscow apartment house bombings and theater siege, to the war in Chechnya and the Beslan massacre. The security services are not all-powerful; they have made clumsy and sometimes catastrophic blunders. But what is clear is that after the chaotic 1990s, when they were sidelined, they have made a remarkable return to power, abetted by their most famous alumnus, Putin.

Download or read book Assessing Russian Activities and Intentions in Recent Us Elections written by United States. Office of the Director of National Intelligence and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-01-06 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report includes an analytic assessment drafted and coordinated among The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and The National Security Agency (NSA), which draws on intelligence information collected and disseminated by those three agencies. It covers the motivation and scope of Moscow's intentions regarding US elections and Moscow's use of cyber tools and media campaigns to influence US public opinion. The assessment focuses on activities aimed at the 2016 US presidential election and draws on our understanding of previous Russian influence operations. When we use the term "we" it refers to an assessment by all three agencies. * This report is a declassified version of a highly classified assessment. This document's conclusions are identical to the highly classified assessment, but this document does not include the full supporting information, including specific intelligence on key elements of the influence campaign. Given the redactions, we made minor edits purely for readability and flow. We did not make an assessment of the impact that Russian activities had on the outcome of the 2016 election. The US Intelligence Community is charged with monitoring and assessing the intentions, capabilities, and actions of foreign actors; it does not analyze US political processes or US public opinion. * New information continues to emerge, providing increased insight into Russian activities. * PHOTOS REMOVED

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Download or read book Healing the Security Service of the Russian Federation FSB Upholding the Universal Declaration of Human Rights Within the Federal naya Sluzhba Bezopasnosti Rossiyskoy Federatsii written by O'Doherty Mark O'Doherty and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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