Russia / Strategy Ad Hoc Media Update (51)
Anonymous expert compilation, analysis, and reporting. </end editorial> Interesting developments in FRY, many NATO related reports, and Russia’s descent into the abyss continues, with reports of...
View ArticleRussian plot to kill defector began with a false story of his death
Michael Isikoff, Chief Investigative Correspondent, Yahoo News October 5, 2018 In the summer of 2016, a Russian news agency published a story about the death of a high-level defector who had been...
View ArticleSecurity officers of Ukraine and UK agree on counteraction to Russian special...
Russia’s continuing provocations are causing the West to coalesce, to work together as a whole. Now Ukraine is tied into one of the strongest security apparatus in the world, the UK. Shared...
View ArticleIt’s Kyiv, Not Kiev
It’s about time. Note to journalists. It’s Kyiv, not Kiev It’s #PutinInvadedUkraine, not #CivilWar If you want to perpetuate Russian propaganda, feel free to ignore. If you support Russia invading...
View ArticleBraving gunfire, rain, and National Guardsmen Thousands in Ingushetia are...
There is trouble in Vladimir Vladimirovich’s house. Might this indicate the beginning of a colored revolution? A colored revolution in Russia is Putin’s worst nightmare and the reason he formed the...
View ArticleRussian bots target British teenagers: Kremlin-backed trolls use stars like...
Twitter accounts run from Russia have gathered thousands of young followers They created viral posts using celebrities such as Watson and Cara Delevingne Highlighting GM crop debates could create...
View ArticleSalisbury CW Attack / Syria / Iran / Russia Ad Hoc Update (167)
The head of the GRU, Russian Colonel General Igor Valentinovich Korobov, has been utterly and absolutely humiliated. The GRU is the laughingstock of the global security services world. GRU ‘secret...
View ArticleWhy we know so much about Russia’s GRU operations
The curious question is “why”. Why is the GRU so sloppy? Why is the GRU using public databases? Why can the GRU be so easily tracked? Why are GRU operations so bullheaded and stupid? The answer is...
View ArticleSalisbury CW Attack / Syria / Iran / Russia Ad Hoc Update (168)
Anonymous expert compilation, analysis, and reporting. </end editorial> Last week deluge of disclosures continues to reverberate in the media and public debate – this may continue for some time....
View ArticleBroken Faith: Ukrainian Church Fights For Independence From Moscow
October 07, 2018 15:00 GMT Christopher Miller Father Serhiy conducts Orthodox Mass at St. John the Baptist Temple of the Moscow Patriarchate in Bakhmut. Share 25 KOSTYANTYNIVKA/BAKHMUT, Ukraine — When...
View ArticleUS to Offer Cyber Warfare Technology to NATO
October 06, 2018 A United States official says the U.S. military is offering its cyberwarfare technology, including computer software tools, to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). The move...
View ArticleUS Feds freeze Russian oligarch’s assets, Upper East Side mansion
By Jennifer Gould Keil October 8, 2018 | 1:06am A sprawling mansion on the Upper East Side has been frozen as part of a hard-core battle between the US government and Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska,...
View ArticleThe UK is practicing cyberattacks that could black out Moscow
British defense officials say they have practiced cyber war games that could shut off electricity in Russia’s capital, the Sunday Times (paywall) reports. The measures are part of a wider range of...
View ArticleSalisbury CW Attack / Syria / Iran / Russia Ad Hoc Update (169)
Anonymous expert compilation, analysis, and reporting. </end editorial> The Russian propaganda campaign continues, and still haphazard. The current focus is on UK media reports of a cyber EX, and...
View ArticleRussia Losing the War of the Churches (10)
Anonymous expert compilation, analysis, and reporting. </end editorial> Some very interesting reports on the schism Russia has produced in the Eastern Orthodox Church. MacFarquhar’s backgrounder...
View ArticleCyber operations and useful fools: the approach of Russian hybrid intelligence
David V. Gioe Cyber operations and useful fools the approach of Russian hybrid intelligence Published online: 28 May 2018 Download citation https://doi.org/10.1080/02684527.2018.1479345 Full Article...
View ArticleJohn Brown’s Public Diplomacy Press and Blog Review
File Notes on Information, Communication, and Public Diplomacy (#96 • Diplomacy for collaborative climate action • Don’t we all love Facebook? File Notes on Information, Communication, and Public...
View ArticleSecond Skripal Poisoning Suspect Identified as Dr. Alexander Mishkin
Автор: Bellingcat Investigation Team In the preceding report from the current investigation into the two suspects in the Skripals poisoning case, Bellingcat and its reporting partner the Insider...
View ArticleGRU (GU) facing a little purge? If so, it’s not to spy less, but spy better
Originally posted on In Moscow's Shadows: As is inevitable, in the wake of the Dutch hacking bust, the US DOJ indictment, and Bellingcat’s claim that the second member of the Skripal hit team was a...
View ArticleHead of the GRU is in ‘ill health’ after furious dressing down from Putin...
By Joe Middleton and Will Stewart In Moscow for MailOnline 14:50 EDT 08 Oct 2018, updated 06:19 EDT 09 Oct 2018 GRU chief Col-Gen Igor Korobov, 62, reportedly emerged shaken and in sudden ‘ill health’...
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