Russian intelligence
Moscow's spy services
Russian intelligence refers to the espionage and security agencies of Russia, particularly the FSB (domestic security) and SVR (foreign intelligence), successors to the Soviet KGB.
The term appears frequently in discussions of election interference, cyberattacks, and poisonings of defectors: Russian intelligence operatives were implicated in the attack.
It can also mean information gathered by these agencies.
- KGBUSSR intelligence service
- GRURussian military spy agency
- KremlinMoscow's fortified government seat
- espionageCovert intelligence gathering
- spycraftMethods of secret agents
mole · handler · defector · honey trap · Putin · sleeper · agent · Moscow · oligarch · poisoning · nerve agent · cyberattack · wet work · disinformation · Cold War · tradecraft · dead drop · surveillance
Russian intelligenceCIA
U.S. foreign intelligence service
British intelligence · MI6 · Mossad · Five Eyes · NSA
Russian intelligencefree press
Journalism without censorship
democratic accountability · congressional oversight · independent journalism
Russian intelligencepublic information
Accessible-to-all data
freedom of information · investigative journalism · whistleblowing · democratic accountability
Russia, Russian, Russians, intelligence, intelligent, intelligently, unintelligent, intelligentsia, intellect