A detailed report from Haaretz diplomatic correspondent Amos Harel recreates the incident last month in which Russian anti-aircraft forces shot down one of their own planes, amidst an Israeli attack on Iranian targets in Syria.
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Bellingcat and Russia Insider: Skripal Suspects Confirmed as GRU Operatives
The two news sites say leaked passport files of Alexander Petrov and Ruslan Boshirov, two Russians charged with poisoning a former intelligence officer in Great Britain, “displayed characteristics atypical of a civilian person’ passport.” They further alleged that: the number on the suspects’ stamps indeed is identical to a telephone number that belongs to the...
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How Putin Spent His Summer Vacation
With Aleksander Bortnikov, director of Russia’s intelligence service, the FSB, says Crime Russia.
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Timothy Snyder Explains the Great Russian Disinformation Campaign
Yale historian Timothy Snyder was among the first to recognize the effectiveness of influence operations launched by the Russian intelligence services. Vladimir Putin’s campaign to destabilize Ukraine 2014 was the model. Russia’s intervention in America’s 2016 election did not have the paramilitary component of “little green men” (plainclothes special operations commandos) seen in Ukraine but...