EUROJUST dismantles Belarus spy network across Europe, Moldovan ex-diplomat to Ukraine among suspects
Authorities in Romania captured the 47-year-old after secret meetings with Belarusian KGB officers in Budapest
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Who spreads Ukrainian “Nazi” stories in Canada? KGB’s “Agent Stuart” files tell all
A former Canadian minister presented Parliament with alleged KGB files showing how Soviet intelligence cultivated journalists to spread narratives about "Ukrainian Nazis" - a campaign experts say continues today.
Daily review: Turkey to maintain course of Bayraktar drone project, international flurry ahead of Putin-Biden call, 30 years of Ukrainian Army
Past 24 hours in the war zone JFO reports Russian-led militants launch 1 attack on Novoselivka, Donetsk Oblast.…
Which western bands were banned in the USSR?
KISS – neo-fascism, punk, violence Led Zeppelin – punk, violence Madonna – sex What the hell is this?…
The KGB massacred thousands of Poles in 1940 Kharkiv, declassified files reveal
One summer day in 1969, three schoolchildren of about 12-14 years of age, were strolling in the woods…
Protasevich’s “confession”: KGB Chairman Andropov’s specialty
Over the past days, Belarus State television has shown several times footage with Belarus oppositionist Roman Protasevich confessing…
How to be a Finn if you’re a Soviet spy: KGB’s illustrated tips from the 1970s
First, I want to tell you a joke. Many a true word is spoken in jest. A scout…
10 things the KGB didn’t want you to know about Chernobyl
At the end of April, we observed the 35th anniversary of the event that has changed the world,…
Kremlin knew Chornobyl was an accident waiting to happen 3 years before 1986 disaster
The Soviet government knew that the Chornobyl atomic power plant was an accident waiting to happen at least…
KGB archives document Red Army’s atrocities against Ukrainian village in USSR after 1945
Red Army soldiers raising the USSR flag on the roof of Reichstag building in Berlin, May 1945. Iconic…
Soviet special services regularly reinforced Politburo’s view of the world, archives in Ukraine show
The archive contains some 1300 folders with the first reports being from the 1920s and the last from…
Kremlin planned to destabilize Ukraine in the early 1990s by smearing “all forms of nationalism,” KGB file reveals
This declaration did not please the Kremlin and caused quite a stir in Moscow and in the ranks…
Ukraine declassifies 190 more KGB documents on Chornobyl disaster
In a new book, The Chernobyl Dossier of the KGB: From Construction to the Accident (in Ukrainian), Kyiv’s…
Putin created unit that blew up apartment blocks in 1999 a year ahead of time, Kruglov says
Drawing on his contacts that he had developed with the criminal world during his first years in the…
Evil empire revives in Putin’s regime and FSB methods of “fighting terrorism”
In August 1991, just after the failure of the August Coup that had unsuccessfully tried to save the…
Russian lawyer who conducted ‘secret Nuremberg’ against Stalinists brings archive to the West
A Russian lawyer who posed as a Stalinist and sought the rehabilitation of Stalin criminals, sometimes successfully and…
The hard fate of foreign Russia-lovers: Ksenia Kirillova on the Paul Whelan case
For at least the past five years, Russia is steadfastly ratcheting up conflicts with Europe and the United…
Carols against the USSR: the tragic 1972 Vertep and KGB’s mass arrests of Ukrainian dissidents (photos)
12 January is marked in Ukraine as the day of the Ukrainian political prisoner. On this day in 1972, the KGB began massively arresting Ukrainian Shistdesyatnyky, ("Sixtiers"), a literary movement that arose in protest to the Soviet Union's destruction of everything Ukrainian, as they were enacting a Vertep, or Ukrainian Christmas caroling performance.
“I was told we should work with fascists”: former KGB officer Zhirnov
Recently, British media reported that half of the Russian diaspora in the UK are informants of the special…
New York Times sheds light on decades-old tradition of Kremlin disinformation campaign
“The HIV virus was secretly created by US scientists as a biological weapon.” Sounds familiar? This HIV hoax…