The authors of The Red Web examine the shifting role of Russian expatriates throughout history, and their complicated, unbreakable relationship with the moth...

The security institutions, the ‘siloviki', that are key to propping up the regime are exchanging recriminations for a growing list of failures in the war on Ukraine.

Vladimir Grekov, a battlehardened spetsnaz soldier and GRU colonel, is Russia’s new military attaché in Copenhagen

The untold story of how Vladimir Putin created his own foreign intelligence service to shore up his standing in post-Soviet Russia.

Vladimir Kara-Murza tells the truths Russia’s rulers can’t bear to hear. As did his father, as did his grandfather.

The U.S. deems credible reports that the chief of the FSB intelligence agency’s Ukraine unit is under house arrest. Bickering has occurred between the FSB and Russia’s defense ministry.

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Opinion | Colonel General Sergei Beseda, head of the Fifth Service of the FSB, is being held in Lefortovo prison.

The Kremlin’s reliance on migrants is creating significant strains in Russia. These are likely to result in serious consequences.

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A documentary from the Navalny Foundation has caused anger and recrimination among the leading lights of the post-Soviet state, Russia.

His brutal, repressive regime is good at belated investigation and torture, but lacks the capability to stop attacks happening, says Russian author Andrei Soldatov

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The untold story of how Vladimir Putin created his own foreign intelligence service to shore up his standing in post-Soviet Russia.

There is factual confusion in this document but its depiction of the Kremlin’s tactics is sound

The untold story of how Vladimir Putin created his own foreign intelligence service to shore up his standing in post-Soviet Russia.

Russia’s ruler is using increasingly ruthless tactics to keep possible opponents off-balance, including senior members of the elite.

Moscow’s ruthless campaign against Russians who fight for Ukraine.

Organisers of event where names of victims are recited say withdrawal of permission is outrageous

The authors of The Red Web examine the shifting role of Russian expatriates throughout history, and their complicated, unbreakable relationship with the moth...

A Russian court on Monday sentenced a former journalist to 22 years in prison for treason after prosecutors said he disclosed state secrets, a ruling his supporters said was a harsh punishment that...

Law allowing courts to fine or jail offenders is reminiscent of Soviet-era laws used to target dissidents, say critics

Robert Mueller’s move to indict organisations affiliated to the Kremlin is a change in tack

The Red Web: The Kremlin's Wars on the Internet

Putin’s regime is now openly purchasing influence in neighboring countries.

In the shadow of war, the FSB embraces Stalin’s methods.

This essay is adapted from The Red Web: The Struggle Between Russia’s Digital Dictators and the New Online Revolutionaries, by Andrei Soldatov and...

Russia's "sovereign Internet" law has come into force -- the latest measure in Moscow's decade-long effort to bring the Runet under control.

Opinion | There seems to be a global shift in the secret services world these days — the Russian organizations are not that secret anymore.

Traded to the West, Russian dissident Vladimir Bukovsky launched Resistance International—the most spectacular attempt to target the Soviet regime from abroad.

Opinion | Foreign correspondents in Russia have been forced to develop a very sophisticated early warning system for danger in the two decades since Vladimir Putin came to power.

In recent years, Russia’s National Security Council (or Sovbez) has come increasingly to resemble the USSR’s Politburo (the Soviet Communist Party’s powerful executive committee). On May 11, Vladimir...

When Russia’s government machine cannot deliver, Vladimir Putin is increasingly reliant on Evgeny Prigozhin, a trusted fixer, to do the job.

Former US National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden has been given permanent residency in Russia, his lawyer Anatoly Kucherena told state-run news agency RIA Novosti.