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protests and of course what kind of investigation we were conducting. we even cooperated on some of these investigations following any media outcry the fsb would imprison or protect a particular official. >> reporter: but as well as keeping taps on activists inside the country, the secretive russian security services also appeared to have been stepping up surveillance of russians living abroad. mikhail says the fsb pulled him out of russia and sent him to the former soviet republic of georgia to infiltrate the growing expatriate community there along side a network of other fsb informants already in place. >> tra . >> reporter: informants, like this man, say the fsb also threatened him with prison, unless he sent detailed reports
lanls in the process. u.s. officials said the yaen yan objective to take back the southern city of kherson, which was lost early in the war, is ambitious but also possible. regardless, it's expected to be a long and brutal campaign. matthew chance had a chance to speak with four informants for the fsb. it's a fascinating look inside the secretive security service, their opinions on the war, and the reasons these defectors are speaking out now. >> this is where we sleep. this is how we live, mikhail says, as the russian political activist turned fsb informant shows us around the center where he is seeking asylum. all i want for the future is a positive normal life, he says, without anymore of these
ventures. it was as a young opposition campaigner that mikhail caught the attention of the kremlin's security service, the fsb. his later work for alexei navalny, russia's most prominent jailed opposition leader, must have made him particularly valuable. but he was potentially targeted with fsb threats. >> translator: they knew i was a boy in military service and gave me a simple choice, either to cooperate with them or go to prison for years. basically i was threatened and as a 19-year-old student very frightened. there are so many stories, even videos, of people being abused in prison. to even think about that is scary. >> you were working with navalny. what kind of information did you give the fsb about him? >> translator: i wasn't his close friend, so i couldn't give them information specifically about him. i was just working in a regional office, so they were more interested in when we were planning to hold meetings or
finally compelled them to turn their backs on their fsb handlers. mikhail even appeared on georgian television berating the russian regime. >> translator: i texted the fbs guys and told them they started this war, that it was horrible. i saw the images online and they turned my world upside do you know, as i not only felt hatred toward the russian government but toward myself for working for him for all these years. >> reporter: it is self-hatred and a deep sense of guilt for the lies and betrayals he says he was forced to make. >> and cnn's matthew chance joins us now from london. it's fascinating to hear from these two. it would seem they're taking a huge risk in speaking out. >> reporter: i think they are generally, speaking and turning your back on the russian security service, the fsb, you
repeat itself. in 1917 lennon came to moscow and started a russian revolution and they are terrified the regime will be threatened once again by war. >> reporter: it was their opposition to the war, both say finally compelled them to turn their backs on their fsb handles. mikhail even appeared on georgian television berating the russian regime. >> translator: i texted the fsb guys and told them they started this war, it was horrible. i saw the images online and they had turned my world upside down. i not only felt hatred towards the russian government but towards myself for working for them all these years. >> reporter: it is self-hatred and a deep sense of guilt for the lies and dbetrayals he says he was forced to make.
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Streets in the Ukrainian capital named after 19th century Russian writers such as Alexander Pushkin, Leo Tolstoy, Anton Chekhov, Ivan Turgenev and Mikhail Lermontov have all had their names changed. The same inglorious fate even extends to German-born communist philosophers Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, for whom many streets were named throughout the Soviet Union, dpa news agency reported.Othe
Streets in the Ukrainian capital named after 19th century Russian writers such as Alexander Pushkin, Leo Tolstoy, Anton Chekhov, Ivan Turgenev and Mikhail Lermontov have all had their names changed. The same inglorious fate even extends to German-born communist philosophers Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, for whom many streets were named throughout the Soviet Union, dpa news agency reported.Othe
RUSSIA, August 25 - The meeting took place on the sidelines of the Eurasian Intergovernmental Council meeting. Excerpts from the transcript: Mikhail Mishustin’s