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The State Bureau of Investigations (SBI) proved the involvement of Russian special services in the explosions in 2014 of military warehouses in the Czech Republic, where weapons were stored for Ukraine, as well as military warehouses in Svatove, Luhansk region in 2015, SBI Communications Advisor Tetiana Sapian said.
The image of Russia's Spetsnaz as "remorseless Soviet Terminators" has enduring appeal but little truth, Mark Galeotti writes in "Putin's Wars."
Johnny Chinaman is on the march again! (He likes long marches.) PLA Air Force aircraft have stepped up their violations of Taiwan’s Air Defense Identification Zone, Chinese pirate vessels are fishing in Filipino waters...
BBC News Published media captionWhat do we know about the Russian intelligence organisation, the GRU? If the definition of a successful intelligence service is obscurity, the GRU is probably Russia's most effective spy agency. In communist times, the KGB became a byword in the West for Soviet spooks, whether they were infiltrating corridors of power abroad or suppressing dissidents at home, but few people ever heard of the GRU (an acronym pronounced like the English word "grew"). Yet the military intelligence service - GRU stands for Main Intelligence Directorate - outlasted the KGB when the...