Navalny’s return puts the spotlight back on Russia’s security services
Kirill Shamiev sees Alexei Navalny’s return to Russia — and subsequent arrest — as another reminder of why reform of Russia’s security services is long overdue
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Russian Intelligence’s “Assassin’s Creed”
Maxim Trudolyubov on the origins and specifics of the Russian “intelligence”
Schrödinger’s Siloviki and Russia’s Criminal Conundrum
Pavel Luzin writes that Russia’s headline-grabbing “wars” within the security services are nothing of the sort — they are the natural result of a government which violates its own laws
Why the Kremlin Can’t Keep its Chekists in Check
Tatyana Stanovaya considers the significance and consequences of the FSB’s growing internal conflicts
Returning Home from Syria
How victims and former supporters of ‘Islamic State’ are welcomed back to Russia