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mikenova shares "Saved Stories | Global Security News" from Global Security News Saved Stories | Global Security News http://globalsecuritynews.org/news-review-2018/saved-stories/ Saved Stories  Saved Stories - None Trump Investigations - Google Search Trump Investigations - Google Search Trump Investigations - Google Search Slovakia’s President Calls Out State for Mafia Cover-Up Global Security 12:16 AM 10/25/2018 – The Package Containing an Explosive Device Was Addressed to Former CIA Director John Brennan – ARTICLES – OCTOBER 25, 2018 | Global Security News Russia and The Rise of GRU Military Intelligence Service Counterintelligence from mikenova (50 sites): Eurasia Review: The Psychology Of Fascism – OpEd eurasiareview.com/25102018-the-p… #reviews #feedly News and Times – 1:40 AM 10/25/2018 | FBI News Review Latin American Herald Tribune - Spate of Package Bombs Sent to Key Democrats Leads Trump to Call for Unity 1. World from mikenova (22 sites): Reuters: World News: Russia will target European countries if they host U.S. nuclear missiles: Putin BREAKING: Furious Vladimir Putin calls poison victim Skripal a 'SCUMBAG' Эксперт опроверг сообщения о том, что Боширов является полковником ГРУ Анатолием Чепигой Kerch college shooting: victims' number increases to 20 people Former Puerto Rico policeman sentenced for bank robbery Hurricane Michael unearths Florida shipwreck from 1899: report Counterterrorism tech making spy craft harder, Mossad chief says HACKED BY AYYILDIZ TİM: Puerto Bonds Soar, Pointing to Hope for Restructuring Russia and US can solve world problems together, says Moscow's Defense Minister John Bolton Says He Told Russian Officials That US Election Meddling Hurt Their Country Russia will target European countries if they host U.S. nuclear missiles: Putin my blogs - Google Search Russian Defense Minister calls for solving global problems with U.S. - Xinhua | http://English.news .cnhttp://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2018-10/24/c_137553486.htm U.K. investigation says Novichok poisoning suspects ... Salisbury Novichok victim Sergei Skripal targeted by ... Feed Integration by RSS Dog.   Saved Stories - None Trump Investigations - Google Search Trump Investigations - Google Search Democrats Promise More Trump Investigations If They Win The House NPR-11 hours ago If Democrats win control of the House, they'll have the power to investigate alleged misconduct of the Trump administration. They have a long ... Byron York: Election could end House investigation of Trump ... The Mercury-20 hours ago Republicans on Capitol Hill have added enormously to the public's understanding of what happened in the Trump-Russia investigation. 10 reasons you should vote for Democrats and against Trump in ... Opinion-USA TODAY-9 hours ago View all Democrats Vow To Rein In Trump Administration If They Win The House NPR-11 hours ago Democrats promise to put the Trump administration under the microscope of oversight investigations if they win control of the House. House Democrats consider how they would balance investigating and ... In-Depth-Washington Post-Oct 23, 2018 What Democrats in Congress will do if they're in power after midterms CNN-Oct 15, 2018 A top target for Democrats remains Trump's personal tax returns, an ask ... committees to handle investigations into Trump -- would become the ... Trump Investigations - Google Search Slovakia’s President Calls Out State for Mafia Cover-Up The Slovakian government covered up EU fund misappropriation schemes exposed by murdered journalist Jan Kuciak, President Andrej Kiska said in an open letter on Monday. Andrej Kiska during a 2014 visit to New York (From: Nemcok.sk)Reading a report from the country’s intelligence service on how tens of millions of EU agricultural funds were being funneled to drug trafficking groups, Kiska was stunned police did not launch any investigations. The report lists many names, companies and sums of money, and was handed over to police. “These people had cover from state mafia, policemen and politicians who decided not to investigate anything and hide things under the carpet,” he said. The government has been covering up organized crime for over a decade, according to the entrepreneur and writer who became President of Slovakia in 2014. "They also had to be covered by the police, who received the information from the Slovak Information Service,” he said. “They had to have people at the interior ministry and the government office, where at least two people worked who were very close to the suspects.” The reporter who uncovered the EU fund schemes, Jan Kuciak, was murdered together with his fiancee eight months ago. Kuciak reported on links between the small country’s government and mafia, including Italian organized crime groups. After the reporter’s murder, people took to the streets in the country’s biggest protests since the fall of communism. The public demanded new elections and forced then-Prime Minister Robert Fico to step down. Peter Pellegrini, who replaced Fico, said the report does not show explicit links between organized crime and the government, Bloomberg reported. “It’s a misinterpretation,” he said. “Such remarks don’t make good impression of Slovakia. But I got used to it from the President since he has never said anything positive about Slovakia.” OCCRP and its partners the Czech Center for Investigative Journalism (CCIJ) and the Investigative Reporting Project Italy (IRPI) are continuing Kuciak's investigations to honor his memory and set the record straight. Global Security 12:16 AM 10/25/2018 – The Package Containing an Explosive Device Was Addressed to Former CIA Director John Brennan – ARTICLES – OCTOBER 25, 2018 | Global Security News Mike Nova’s Shared NewsLinks Global Security

Latin American Herald Tribune - Spate of Package Bombs Sent to Key Democrats Leads Trump to Call for Unity

mikenova shares "Latin American Herald Tribune - Spate of Package Bombs Sent to Key Democrats Leads Trump to Call for Unity" from Latin American Herald Tribune Latin American Herald Tribune - Spate of Package Bombs Sent to Key Democrats Leads Trump to Call for Unity http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=2468135&CategoryId=36641 Spate of Package Bombs Sent to Key Democrats Leads Trump to Call for Unity WASHINGTON – Leading Democrats – including former President Barack Obama and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton – were the targets of up to five package bombs, a series of attacks that motivated President Donald Trump on Wednesday to issue a call for unity. The first news about the incidents came from New York, where Clinton late on Tuesday received a suspicious package at her home in Westchester County, near New York City. Then, the Secret Service reported that a second package sent to the Washington residence of the Obamas – Barack and Michelle – had been intercepted. Over the subsequent hours, the names of more people who had received suspicious package became known, including former CIA Director John Brennan. The latest former top official on the target list was ex-US Attorney General Eric Holder, but the package sent to him never arrived and was returned to the listed sender, former Democratic National Committee chairperson and Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz. The FBI later determined that all the suspicious packages detected so far included the address of Schultz’s office in Florida as the sender. All the packages contained homemade bombs similar to the one police found and detonated on Monday at the New York state residence of billionaire philanthropist George Soros. The White House issued a statement in which it vehemently rejected “these terrorizing acts” and called them “despicable.” “We condemn the attempted violent attacks recently made against President Obama, President Clinton, Secretary Clinton and other public figures. These terrorizing acts are despicable, and anyone responsible will be held accountable to the fullest extent of the law,” said White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders in the statement. Although the motivation for the package bombs is not yet known, the fact that the recipients were all well-known antagonists of Trump led several leaders to call for unity, with just two weeks remaining before the Nov. 6 midterm elections. “We have to come together and send one very clear and strong message that acts or threats of political violence have no place in the United States of America.” Trump said at a Wednesday afternoon press conference at the White House. The president went on to condemn the “egregious conduct,” adding that it was “abhorrent to everything we hold dear as Americans.” Meanwhile, at a Democratic Party campaign event in Miami, Hillary Clinton said that the US is going through “a troubling time” and she called upon all Americans to do everything possible to unify the country.

News and Times – 1:40 AM 10/25/2018 | FBI News Review

mikenova shares "News and Times – 1:40 AM 10/25/2018 | FBI News Review" from FBI News Review News and Times – 1:40 AM 10/25/2018 | FBI News Review http://fbinewsreview.org/2018/10/25/news-and-times-140-am-10-25-2018/ News and Times from mikenova (16 sites) Articles – October 2018 Top Stories – Google News: ‘See How Nice I’m Behaving?’: After Bomb Scares, Trump Tries Bipartisanship – New York Times Trump Denounces Attempted Bomb Attacks as ‘Despicable Acts’ President Trump spoke during a meeting with senior military leaders at the White House on Tuesday. Credit Sarah Silbiger/The New York Times By Eileen Sullivan WASHINGTON — President Trump on Wednesday denounced the attempted bomb attacks on several prominent Democratic Party figures, which he called “despicable acts,” as law enforcement 22min putin euronews News Review – October 2018 Live: Suspect explosives, Khashoggi death latest, Putin’s warning on missiles Putin’s missile warning:… President Vladimir Putin has warned Russia will respond “in kind” if new US nuclear missiles are placed in Europe. 41min Operation Novichok – Updates from mikenova (3 sites) 1 Operation Novichok: The Salisbury and Amesbury Poisonings and the Skripal Saga Operation Novichok: Operation Novichok – Updates Newsletter // October 23 Feeling mobile? Get the Feedly app and read on the go 1d shoigu NEWS.com.au 1 Operation Novichok: The Salisbury and Amesbury Poisonings and the Skripal Saga Russia to restore balance if US quits deal Russian defence minister Sergei Shoigu lauded Mr Bolton for his two-day visit and said that “even small steps will benefit our relations and help restore trust” between the two countries. 1d Operation Novichok – Updates from mikenova (3 sites) 1 Operation Novichok: The Salisbury and Amesbury Poisonings and the Skripal Saga Operation Novichok: Russia News | russia-news.org – Bike with Mike! Psycho-Historically and Hermeneutically Speaking. | News, Reviews, Analysis, Opinions – By Michael Novakhov Russian officials celebrate 60th anti-Russian sanction Spokespeople for the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation commented on the expansion of US sanctions against Russia because of the alleged interference in the 2016 presidential election. According to Russian officials, there is already a round number of anti-Russian restrictions. Source: Fotodom.ru/DP “We continue watching t 1d russian military intelligence WGEM 1 Operation Novichok: The Salisbury and Amesbury Poisonings and the Skripal Saga Justice Department charges 7 Russian military intelligence officials in hack of doping agencies, other organizations Justice Department charges 7 Russian military intelligence officials in hack of doping agencies, other organizations WGEM Full coverage 1d Operation Novichok – Updates from mikenova (3 sites) 1 Operation Novichok: The Salisbury and Amesbury Poisonings and the Skripal Saga Operation Novichok: All Posts Review Newsletter // October 23

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News and Times – 1:40 AM 10/25/2018 | FBI News Review

mikenova shares "News and Times – 1:40 AM 10/25/2018 | FBI News Review" from FBI News Review News and Times – 1:40 AM 10/25/2018 | FBI News Review http://fbinewsreview.org/2018/10/25/news-and-times-140-am-10-25-2018/ News and Times from mikenova (16 sites) Articles – October 2018 Top Stories – Google News: ‘See How Nice I’m Behaving?’: After Bomb Scares, Trump Tries Bipartisanship – New York Times Trump Denounces Attempted Bomb Attacks as ‘Despicable Acts’ President Trump spoke during a meeting with senior military leaders at the White House on Tuesday. Credit Sarah Silbiger/The New York Times By Eileen Sullivan WASHINGTON — President Trump on Wednesday denounced the attempted bomb attacks on several prominent Democratic Party figures, which he called “despicable acts,” as law enforcement 22min putin euronews News Review – October 2018 Live: Suspect explosives, Khashoggi death latest, Putin’s warning on missiles Putin’s missile warning:… President Vladimir Putin has warned Russia will respond “in kind” if new US nuclear missiles are placed in Europe. 41min Operation Novichok – Updates from mikenova (3 sites) 1 Operation Novichok: The Salisbury and Amesbury Poisonings and the Skripal Saga Operation Novichok: Operation Novichok – Updates Newsletter // October 23 Feeling mobile? Get the Feedly app and read on the go 1d shoigu NEWS.com.au 1 Operation Novichok: The Salisbury and Amesbury Poisonings and the Skripal Saga Russia to restore balance if US quits deal Russian defence minister Sergei Shoigu lauded Mr Bolton for his two-day visit and said that “even small steps will benefit our relations and help restore trust” between the two countries. 1d Operation Novichok – Updates from mikenova (3 sites) 1 Operation Novichok: The Salisbury and Amesbury Poisonings and the Skripal Saga Operation Novichok: Russia News | russia-news.org – Bike with Mike! Psycho-Historically and Hermeneutically Speaking. | News, Reviews, Analysis, Opinions – By Michael Novakhov Russian officials celebrate 60th anti-Russian sanction Spokespeople for the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation commented on the expansion of US sanctions against Russia because of the alleged interference in the 2016 presidential election. According to Russian officials, there is already a round number of anti-Russian restrictions. Source: Fotodom.ru/DP “We continue watching t 1d russian military intelligence WGEM 1 Operation Novichok: The Salisbury and Amesbury Poisonings and the Skripal Saga Justice Department charges 7 Russian military intelligence officials in hack of doping agencies, other organizations Justice Department charges 7 Russian military intelligence officials in hack of doping agencies, other organizations WGEM Full coverage 1d Operation Novichok – Updates from mikenova (3 sites) 1 Operation Novichok: The Salisbury and Amesbury Poisonings and the Skripal Saga Operation Novichok: All Posts Review Newsletter // October 23

Russia and The Rise of GRU Military Intelligence Service

mikenova shares "Russia and The Rise of GRU Military Intelligence Service" from News / MN's Articles - October 2018 Board Russia and The Rise of GRU Military Intelligence Service http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/russia-and-the-rise-of-gru-military-intelligence-service-a-1233576.html Each autumn, Russia's GRU secret service celebrates its birthday. Falling on Nov. 5, the festival is officially called the Day of the Military Intelligence Agent and commemorates the founding of the Soviet military intelligence service in 1918. At the GRU headquarters, a modern, functional building located in northwest Moscow, the defense minister gives an inspiring speech, followed by medals for deserving employees. This year, though -- on the GRU's 100th birthday -- the mood is far from cheerful. Instead of a party atmosphere at headquarters, the Defense Ministry held a crisis meeting instead. And it was apparently open season on the GRU. "Complete incompetence" and "unbridled sloppiness" were a couple of the accusations leveled at the agency, one journalist learned, and a jokester apparently even asked why GRU agents abroad "don't just put on budenovkas?" Budenovka is the name of the striking pointed caps adorned with the Soviet star that members of the Red Army began wearing in 1918. At the moment, Russia's military intelligence service is having trouble staying out of the headlines. That in itself is a sign of crisis, given that spies generally prefer to keep themselves out of the news. Until recently, only a handful of people abroad even knew what the abbreviation GRU stood for: Main Intelligence Directorate. For most people, Russian intelligence was synonymous with the domestic FSB intelligence agency once headed by Vladimir Putin. Leaving Tracks Everywhere That, though, has recently changed, with new details about the GRU emerging on a regular basis in recent weeks. Whether it's the poison attack on ex-double agent Sergei Skripal in Salisbury, Britain, or a cyberattack in The Hague, the exposing of coup plans in the Balkans or the hacking of anti-doping agencies, of the U.S. presidential campaign, of the German federal parliament's computer network or of the Malaysian public prosecutor's office investigating the shooting down of an airplane over Ukraine, the GRU has been leaving its tracks everywhere. The series of blunders is surprising. But so too is the fact that this intelligence service has become so ubiquitous. Is it still even a military secret service or has it morphed into something bigger? And if so, how did GRU get there? Andrei Soldatov also finds himself asking such questions recently. The Moscow-based journalist has spent years reporting on the world of the Russian secret services. Now, he no longer even understands it himself. He sounds a bit like a music critic who has been forced to listen to a jackhammer instead of a string quintet. International Newsletter Sign up for our newsletter -- and get the very best of SPIEGEL in English sent to your email inbox twice weekly. Until recently, the GRU had been regarded as professional, if not particularly squeamish. But the latest news -- such as the March 4 attack in which ex-agent Skripal was supposed to be killed in Salisbury using a neurotoxin -- has cast the agency in a different light. Two men suspected by the British in the incident claimed on Russian television that they had been nothing more than harmless tourists. The performance was ridiculously implausible, and it didn't take long for it to be refuted. The investigative journalism platform Bellingcat recently revealed that both are high-ranking GRU officers and recipients of Russia's highest government award, the "Hero of the Russian Confederation." The site identified the men traveling under the aliases Ruslan Boshirov and Alexander Petrov as Anatoliy Chepiga and Alexander Mishkin. DPA/ RT Anatoliy Chepiga and Alexander Mishkin are the main suspects in the Salisbury poisonings. Another clumsy operation also ensued in The Hague only one month after Salisbury. Four GRU employees attracted the attention of Dutch intelligence agents when they tried to hack the computer network of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons from a parking lot. The four had entered the country with diplomatic passports and had been picked up at the airport by an embassy employee. Their computer still carried traces of an attack on an anti-doping conference. Soldatov describes the story as "a nightmare," adding that it is far more bizarre than the action in Salisbury. How, he asks himself, can a secret service act in such a dumb way? And what is going on in the heads of military officers who are sent to attack sports organizations rather than military targets? To answer these questions, one has to look at the GRU's past. Since the dismantling of the Soviet Union's once all-purpose KGB, Russia has been home to a broad palette of intelligence agencies. The KGB's First Chief Directorate became the Foreign Intelligence Service of the Russian Federation. The agency is regarded as chic and elegant, and it is located "in the forest," as its shielded headquarters are referred to in agent jargon. The KGB's Ninth Chief Directorate became the Federal Protective Service (FSO), which is responsible for providing protection to Putin and the Kremlin. The agency is feared primarily because proximity to Putin is synonymous with power in the country. The rest of the KGB became the Federal Security Service (FSB), the domestic intelligence agency. It's the best-known agency and it also took over KGB headquarters at Lubyanka Square. Unfortunately, it also adopted some of the Soviet secret polices' methods. What makes the GRU so special is the fact that it is the only intelligence agency that has nothing to do with the former KGB and its legacy. It was and still is subordinate to the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. It even possesses what amounts to its own army. The GRU's Spetsnaz brigades are elite troops trained for action in enemy territory. They also serve to attract new agents. Those who prove themselves in the GRU's Spetsnaz military service stand good chances of advancement within the apparatus. This is why typical GRU agents differ from their civilian counterparts in the SWR foreign intelligence service. Broadly speaking, they typically aren't sharp analysts with good manners, but social climbers who lack finesse. Though they know how to bury an explosive device and feel more comfortable under enemy fire than in a provincial part of England. At first glance, the two Salisbury suspects, GRU officers Chepiga and Mishkin, seem to fit that mold. Both of them have traveled an impressive path from remote villages on Russia's fringe to the officers' clubs in the capital. Diminished Influence While KGB colleagues had to watch the monument to their idol Felix Dzerzhinsky, who founded the Soviet secret police, being dismantled on Lubyanka Square in 1991 and their authority later divided, the GRU didn't have to reform at all. The organization still doesn't even have its own press office. But the agency suffered all the more after Putin entered the Kremlin in 2000. Under Putin, the GRU lost influence relative to FSB, which became ever more powerful. And the radical Russian military reform beginning in 2008 struck the agency right at its core. Then-Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov initially stripped the GRU of the Spetsnaz brigades, the very thing that distinguished it from the other secret services. "The idea was to get rid of the Soviet legacy," says military expert Alexander Golts. "Serdyukov didn't foresee at that time that a new Cold War would break out." It's perhaps no coincidence that GRU also had its power symbolically curbed at the time. The traditional abbreviation was shortened to GU -- from the "Main Intelligence Directorate" to the "Main Directorate" of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, even though the old designation has been retained in everyday usage. Meanwhile, the bat in the organization's original coat of arms, which some GRU veterans proudly wear as tatoos, was replaced by a carnation. "They don't like Putin at the GRU," says Sergei Kanev, a prominent investigative journalist in Moscow. Kanev's reporting helped shed light on GRU activities in Salisbury. He helped expose supposed tourist Ruslan Boshirov as GRU Colonel Anatoliy Chepiga and also discovered that officials at the Defense Ministry are furious at the GRU right now. "There were angry people at the weekend meeting," he says, adding that he learned about the atmosphere there from a reliable source. If Kanev's source can be believed, then President Putin already summoned GRU head Colonel General Igor Korobov to a meeting back in mid-September for a dressing down. Korobov is said to have collapsed at home afterward. Kanev explains all this by way of video chat because he had to flee Moscow for the Baltic states. A friend had warned Kanev that he was likely to be taken to court in Russia. Kanev works for a journalism project financed by exiled businessman Mikhail Khodorkovsky and has never shied away from controversial issues. Most recently, he conducted reporting on the Wagner Group, a private Russian military force that is led by a former GRU officer and conducts its training at a GRU base in southern Russia. The man considered to be at the helm of the group is an entrepreneur from Putin's circle in his home city St. Petersburg. Kanev doesn't consider the strange secret service failures in recent years to be a problem specific to GRU. "The whole state system is being degraded," he says. If officials in Russia sell access to the country's passport database, which is likely what made the reporting in the Skripal case possible in the first place, then why should military intelligence be an exception? Based on the number of times the agency has been caught red handed recently, it seems safe to assume that the GRU has recently expanded its remit. That expansion is tied to a remarkable turnaround at the agency that began in 2012. That year, Defense Minister Serdyukov was replaced by Sergei Shoigu, one of the most powerful and ambitious men from the president's inner circle -- and a frequent companion on Putin's outdoorsy vacations. Shoigu partially reversed the military reforms of his predecessor while increasing the army's prestige and opening up new resources and recruiting possibilities. Under his leadership, the army in 2013 announced its "big hunt for programmers," recruited students from universities and began bankrolling hacking competitions. The GRU also profited from these developments. Shoigu even handed back the Spetsnaz brigades to the GRU. But the agency benefited even more from the radical shift in Russia's foreign policy since the Ukraine crisis. In 2014, GRU troops in unmarked uniforms were on the ground during the annexation of Crimea and fought against Ukrainian troops in the Donbass region. That was also when the two suspects in the Salisbury case received their medals, which were awarded by Putin himself. In 2015, GRU prepared the Russian military intervention in Syria. Officials at the Kremlin were satisfied with the result. A Tool for Secret Operations "Enthusiasm for the 'Little Green Men,' for secret operations with Spetsnaz people in unmarked uniforms, began in Crimea," says military expert Alexander Golts. "There was an impression that the world could be ruled by something like this." It also marked the start of the GRU's increasing interference in areas it had not previously been interested in. "That's the logic of the Russian leadership: The only instrument Russia can boast of internationally is military force. And as long as there's no open combat, the GRU is the tool through which secret operations are conducted." In 2016, for example, the GRU had become so active that the agency and its head, Korobov, were slapped with sanctions by the U.S. Treasury Department before the end of the year. In April 2016, the organization hacked the computers of the Democratic National Committee and of Hillary Clinton's presidential election campaign, something that a competing Russian intelligence service had also succeeded in doing. But GRU went well beyond hacking -- the agency also saw to it that the emails were ultimately made public. The fact that the GRU, and not other hackers, was the source of the emails that found their way into the public light is confirmed in U.S. special counsel Robert Mueller's indictment. After a year of investigating (and shortly before the summit between Trump and Putin in Helsinki in July), Mueller's indictment listed the names of 12 officers in charge of the operation. The GRU also conducted some spectacular offline operations in 2016. In October of that year, the cover was blown on an attempt by pro-Russian forces to overthrow the government in Montenegro. A GRU officer involved in the plot was arrested in neighboring Serbia and Nikolai Patrushev, head of the Russian Security Council, rescued him after a speedy trip to Belgrade. The matter may have been embarrassing, but it was quickly forgotten by the international community. That same year, the GRU also kept busy hacking sports officials' computers in Rio de Janeiro and Lausanne in efforts to limit the consequences of the Russian doping scandal at the 2014 Olympic Games. The GRU's involvement seemed odd given that the systematic doping in Russia actually took place under the aegis of the FSB, as whistleblower Grigory Rodchenkov confessed. Why would the GRU help its competitor FSB out of that mess? "Because it has the ability to do so," says British intelligence expert Mark Galeotti. He says all the intelligence services seek to serve Putin in ways that prove how useful they can be to him. "That's the most important thing for Russian officials: to guess what Putin is going to want tomorrow." Unpredictable Consequences Journalist Soldatov says that "by 2016 at the latest," GRU developed into a "political instrument." This, he says, is something new: "The military hasn't interfered in our politics since the Decembrist revolt of 1825. This is very dangerous and the consequences are unpredictable." The question is how Vladimir Putin sees all this -- whether he wants to continue using the GRU to pursue unconventional objectives or whether he has now come to regret the idea. The recent mishaps aren't the first for the agency. In 2004, Russian secret service agents, presumably with the GRU, killed Chechen separatist leader Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev in Qatar. But the agents' identities were ultimately exposed, resulting in their arrest. It didn't do any damage to the agency at the time. Soldatov says everything hinges on the defense minister. In contrast to FSB and SVR, GRU doesn't report directly to the president, but rather to the General Staff and the defense minister. And given that Putin has so far been very pleased with ambitious Shoigu, it may well be that the GRU's stumbling won't hurt it this time, either. But many in Moscow have been just as surprised by the constant new scandals plaguing the GRU as the West has been. It's like an abyss opening up in front of them. "The country has changed completely since 2014," says Soldatov, "but we haven't come to understand that yet and we are living as if everything were still just as it once was."

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October 24, 2018

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