Kseniya Kirillova

The author is a Russia expert and an analyst at the Jamestown Foundation.

Is Minsk Toying With Moscow? On the Complicated Relationship between Lukashenko and the Kremlin

More than a year has passed since the presidential election in Belarus which ended with massive protests against the result and bloody reprisals on...

Rehabilitation From Heroism: Work With Internal Conditions to Prevent an Insider Threat

The insider spy, commonly referred to as a “mole” has from time immemorial been the scourge of intelligence services. Representatives of the American Intelligence...

Love-Hate: Russian Politics Is Completely Dependent on the US

Most researchers at Western think tanks that are studying Russian "active measures” have to admit that along with the brutal (and often failed) actions...

Petrov, Boshirov and Ricin: What Is Behind the Russian-Czech Spy Scandals?

The diplomatic-espionage scandal between Russia and the Czech Republic is gaining momentum. Last week, the new head of the Czech Foreign Ministry, Jakub Kulhánek,...

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