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The FSB in Crimea detained Russian citizen V.L. Esipenko on charges of intelligence and subversive activities in the interests of the Ukrainian special services. “The specified citizen carried out photo and video recording of the area, life support facilities and places of mass presence of people on the territory of the Republic of Crimea. In order to exclude the conduct of Esipenko V.L. subversive actions in the interests of the Ukrainian special services, he was detained, and during the examination of him...

The Russian military group in Crimea is prepared for possible attacks from both Ukraine from land and NATO forces from the sea. The former head of the Foreign Intelligence Service of Ukraine, Nikolai Malomuzh, said this on air on the Apostrophe Internet channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. According to a Ukrainian security official, Russian President Vladimir Putin has turned the peninsula into an outpost on the Black Sea. “He is turning Crimea...

Director of the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) Sergei Naryshkin arrived in Minsk today and met with the President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. At the meeting, the Belarusian president strongly emphasized his knowledge of intelligence matters. “The President of Russia very often tells me about you. Many documents... Introduces me to the developments of the Foreign Intelligence Service of the Russian Federation where ours are concerned...

The United States State Department is radicalizing protests in Belarus. This was stated by the director of the Foreign Intelligence Service of the Russian Federation, Sergei Naryshkin, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “The United States is using the most unscrupulous methods to rock the situation in Belarus. In working with the Belarusian opposition, the Americans are shifting their focus to increasing the activity of its power wing from among radical nationalists. The State Department has launched work on...

US Deputy Assistant Secretary of State George Kent arrived in Minsk. This is his second visit this year. Kent plans to meet with Foreign Minister Vladimir Makei. This was reported by the opposition website TUT.BY, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. The US Embassy in Belarus reports that a representative of the State Department laid flowers at the monument to Maxim Bogdanovich, considered one of the creators of the Belarusian literary...

President Vladimir Zelensky appointed Valery Evdokimov as deputy chairman of the Foreign Intelligence Service, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. This is stated in the relevant decree. “To appoint Valery Vladimirovich Evdokimov as deputy chairman of the Foreign Intelligence Service,” the text of the document says. In 2013, Evdokimov headed the information department of the State Border Service Administration. In August of that year, then-President Viktor Yanukovych awarded Evdokimov...

Ukrainian intelligence services had a large amount of information concerning their colleagues from the Russian Federation. Lev Korolkov, a former officer of the Foreign Intelligence Service, stated this in an interview with Komsomolskaya Pravda. “The agreements with Washington on the conduct of relevant work by their representatives in the capital of Ukraine (jointly with the Ukrainian special services) were reached in 2014 and, most likely, all these five were observed years while Poroshenko was in power. With Ukraine...

The first deputy heads of the Foreign Intelligence Service of Ukraine (SVR) Sergey Semochko and Andrey Alekseenko are authorized to manage the service until the official appointment of a new head, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. The SVR press service reported this today. “We have two first deputies on our staff: Andrey Alekseenko and Sergey Semochko - they are authorized to act as chairman of the service under their supervision until...

December 28 marked the 110th anniversary of the birth of the head of the USSR foreign intelligence service, Pavel Fitin, the man who emerged victorious from the confrontation with the strongest intelligence services in the world. Subscribe to PolitNavigator news on Telegram, Facebook, Odnoklassniki or Vkontakte In March 1938, a new employee appeared at the People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs of the USSR. Pavel Mikhailovich Fitin, sent among 800 fellow communists to...