The Russian Fsb
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The Russian Fsb
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Author : Kevin P. Riehle
language : en
Publisher: Georgetown University Press
Release Date : 2024-03-01
The Russian Fsb written by Kevin P. Riehle and has been published by Georgetown University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-03-01 with History categories.
An introduction to Putin’s formidable intelligence and security organization Since its founding in 1995, the FSB, Russia’s Federal Security Service, has regained the majority of the domestic security functions of the Soviet-era KGB. Under Vladimir Putin, who served as FSB director just before becoming president, the agency has grown to be one of the most powerful and favored organizations in Russia. The FSB not only conducts internal security but also has primacy in intelligence operations in former Soviet states. Their activities include anti-dissident operations at home and abroad, counterintelligence, counterterrorism, criminal investigations of crimes against the state, and guarding Russia’s borders. In The Russian FSB, Kevin P. Riehle provides a brief history of the FSB’s origins, placed within the context of Russian history, the government’s power structure, and Russia’s wider culture. He describes how the FSB’s mindset and priorities show continuities from the tsarist regimes and the Soviet era. The book’s chapters analyze origins, organizational structure, missions, leaders, international partners, and cultural representations such as the FSB in film and television. Based on both English and Russian sources, this book is a well-researched introduction to understanding the FSB and its central role in Putin’s Russia. Concise Histories of Intelligence SeriesChristopher Moran, Mark Phythian, and Mark Stout, Series Editors
The New Nobility
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Author : Andrei Soldatov
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2010-09-14
The New Nobility written by Andrei Soldatov and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-09-14 with History categories.
In The New Nobility, two courageous Russian investigative journalists open up the closed and murky world of the Russian Federal Security Service. While Vladimir Putin has been president and prime minister of Russia, the Kremlin has deployed the security services to intimidate the political opposition, reassert the power of the state, and carry out assassinations overseas. At the same time, its agents and spies were put beyond public accountability and blessed with the prestige, benefits, and legitimacy lost since the Soviet collapse. The security services have played a central -- and often mysterious -- role at key turning points in Russia during these tumultuous years: from the Moscow apartment house bombings and theater siege, to the war in Chechnya and the Beslan massacre. The security services are not all-powerful; they have made clumsy and sometimes catastrophic blunders. But what is clear is that after the chaotic 1990s, when they were sidelined, they have made a remarkable return to power, abetted by their most famous alumnus, Putin.
Russia S Intelligence Gathering Organizations
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Author : Paul F. Kisak
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017-08-03
Russia S Intelligence Gathering Organizations written by Paul F. Kisak and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-08-03 with categories.
This is an unclassified overview of Russian Intelligence Agencies edited from open source material.The Intelligence Community in Russia consists of a complex series of intelligence agencies operating under the supervision of the National Security Council of Russia. The main Russian governmental services responsible for gathering foreign intelligence are: 1. Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) - The Foreign Intelligence Service reports directly to the President of Russia. 2. The GRU - Main Intelligence Directorate of the Military of Russia. 3. 12th Chief Directorate - 12th Directorate of the Ministry of Defense, responsible for Nuclear Security & 4. The Federal Security Service (FSB) - (formerly the KGB) The Federal Security Service is responsible for counter-intelligence, state security and anti-terrorist operations. The GRU first predecessor in post-tsarist Russia was created on October 21, 1918 under the sponsorship of Leon Trotsky, who was then the civilian leader of the Red Army. It was originally known as the Registration Directorate (RU). The GRU is the foreign military intelligence main directorate of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation (formerly the Soviet Army General Staff of the Soviet Union). The official full name is Main Intelligence Directorate of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. The GRU is Russia's largest foreign intelligence agency. In 1997 it deployed six times as many agents in foreign countries as the SVR, the successor of the KGB's foreign operations directorate. It also commanded 25,000 Spetsnaz troops in 1997. This book gives an unclassified overview of The Russian Intelligence Community.This book is designed to be a state of the art, superb academic reference work and provide an overview of the topic and give the reader a structured knowledge to familiarize yourself with the topic at the most affordable price possible.The accuracy and knowledge is of an international viewpoint as the edited articles represent the inputs of many knowledgeable individuals and some of the most current knowledge on the topic, based on the date of publication.
Blowing Up Russia
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Author : I︠U︡riĭ Felʹshtinskiĭ
language : en
Publisher: Gibson Square Books
Release Date : 2007
Blowing Up Russia written by I︠U︡riĭ Felʹshtinskiĭ and has been published by Gibson Square Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with History categories.
Vividly written and based on Litvinenko's 20 year's of insider's knowledge of Russian spy campaigns and Yuri Felshtinsky's comprehensive academic knowledge, "Blowing up Russia" is a meticulous and gripping story how the secret organs of the Russian state are out of control and plotting a return to Russia as a state of terror. Writing about his co-author, Yuri Felshtinsky recounts how the banning of their book in Russia caused 3 related deaths.
The Federal Security Service Of The Russian Federation
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Author : Gordon Bennett
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2000
The Federal Security Service Of The Russian Federation written by Gordon Bennett and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Intelligence service categories.
Expelled A Journalist S Descent Into The Russian Mafia State
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Author : Luke Harding
language : en
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Release Date : 2012-05-22
Expelled A Journalist S Descent Into The Russian Mafia State written by Luke Harding and has been published by St. Martin's Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-05-22 with Political Science categories.
In 2007 Luke Harding arrived in Moscow to take up a new job as a correspondent for the British newspaper, The Guardian. Within months, mysterious agents from Russia's Federal Security Service --the successor to the KGB--had broken into his apartment. He found himself tailed by men in leather jackets, bugged, and even summoned to the KGB's notorious prison, Lefortovo. The break-in was the beginning of an extraordinary psychological war against the journalist and his family. Windows left open in his children's bedroom, secret police agents tailing Harding on the street, and customs agents harassing the family as they left and entered the country became the norm. The campaign of persecution burst into the open in 2011 when the Kremlin expelled Harding from Moscow--the first western reporter to be deported from Russia since the days of the Cold War. Expelled is a brilliant and haunting account of the insidious methods used by a resurgent Kremlin against its so-called "enemies"--human rights workers, western diplomats, journalists and opposition activists. It includes illuminating diplomatic cables which describe Russia as a "virtual mafia state". Harding gives a personal and compelling portrait of Russia that--in its bid to remain a superpower--is descending into a corrupt police state.
From Red Terror To Mafia State
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Author : Yuri Felshtinsky
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2022-05-24
From Red Terror To Mafia State written by Yuri Felshtinsky and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-05-24 with categories.
The dissolution of the Soviet Union was obviously a defeat for the Communist Party, but more surprisingly it was a victory for the ruthless State Security Committee, the KGB. Today its successor, the FSB (Federal Security Service), is firmly in control of Russia through the person of Vladimir Putin, a former KGB operative and FSB director. From Red Terror to Mafia State details how the state security organization seized power over Russia, and explains how the FSB doesn't just silence domestic dissenters but also threatens the outside world. The story begins in 1917 with the establishment of the All-Russian Extraordinary Commission (VChK), commonly known as the Cheka, under the direction of Felix Dzerzhinsky. Several versions of State Security followed before the KGB was formed in 1954. For many decades, the Security organization competed for dominance with the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, until the party was finally defeated and lost power in 1991. Through a chain of unconstitutional maneuverings, the state power landed in the hands of the FSB in 2000 when Putin was elevated to the presidency of Russia, a position he holds in perpetuity. The authors of this illuminating narrative are exceptionally well qualified to reveal how it all happened. Yuri Felshtinsky, a historian, has written prolifically on the Soviet Union, Russia, and the state security apparatus. Vladimir Popov was himself a KGB operative for two decades. Together with Boris Gulko and Viktor Kortschnoi, they co-authored The KGB Plays Chess: The Secret Police and the Fight for the World Chess Crown (2010). In their new book, Felshtinsky and Popov underscore the dangers posed to the world by FSB rule over a nuclear superpower and suggest ways to eliminate this new and unexpected threat.
Russia And The Cult Of State Security
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Author : Julie Fedor
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-03-01
Russia And The Cult Of State Security written by Julie Fedor and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-03-01 with History categories.
This book explores the mythology woven around the Soviet secret police and the Russian cult of state security that has emerged from it. Tracing the history of this mythology from the Soviet period through to its revival in contemporary post-Soviet Russia, the volume argues that successive Russian regimes have sponsored a ‘cult’ of state security, whereby security organs are held up as something to be worshipped. The book approaches the history of this cult as an ongoing struggle to legitimise and sacralise the Russian state security apparatus, and to negotiate its violent and dramatic past. It explores the ways in which, during the Soviet period, this mythology sought to make the existence of the most radically intrusive and powerful secret police in history appear ‘natural’. It also documents the contemporary post-Soviet re-emergence of the cult of state security, examining the ways in which elements of the old Soviet mythology have been revised and reclaimed as the cornerstone of a new state ideology. The Russian cult of state security is of ongoing contemporary relevance, and is crucial for understanding not only the tragedies of Russia’s twentieth-century history, but also the ambiguities of Russia’s post-Soviet transition, and the current struggle to define Russia’s national identity and future development. The book examines the ways in which contemporary Russian life continues to be shaped by the legacy of Soviet attitudes to state-society relations, as expressed in the reconstituted cult of state security. It investigates the shadow which the figure of the secret policeman continues to cast over Russia today. The book will be of great interest to students of modern Russian history and politics, intelligence studies and security studies, as well as readers with an interest in the KGB and its successors.
The Red Web
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Author : Andrei Soldatov
language : en
Publisher: PublicAffairs
Release Date : 2015-09-08
The Red Web written by Andrei Soldatov and has been published by PublicAffairs this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-09-08 with Political Science categories.
A Library Journal Best Book of 2015 A NPR Great Read of 2015 The Internet in Russia is either the most efficient totalitarian tool or the device by which totalitarianism will be overthrown. Perhaps both. On the eighth floor of an ordinary-looking building in an otherwise residential district of southwest Moscow, in a room occupied by the Federal Security Service (FSB), is a box the size of a VHS player marked SORM. The Russian government's front line in the battle for the future of the Internet, SORM is the world's most intrusive listening device, monitoring e-mails, Internet usage, Skype, and all social networks. But for every hacker subcontracted by the FSB to interfere with Russia's antagonists abroad -- such as those who, in a massive denial-of-service attack, overwhelmed the entire Internet in neighboring Estonia -- there is a radical or an opportunist who is using the web to chip away at the power of the state at home. Drawing from scores of interviews personally conducted with numerous prominent officials in the Ministry of Communications and web-savvy activists challenging the state, Andrei Soldatov and Irina Borogan peel back the history of advanced surveillance systems in Russia. From research laboratories in Soviet-era labor camps, to the legalization of government monitoring of all telephone and Internet communications in the 1990s, to the present day, their incisive and alarming investigation into the Kremlin's massive online-surveillance state exposes just how easily a free global exchange can be coerced into becoming a tool of repression and geopolitical warfare. Dissidents, oligarchs, and some of the world's most dangerous hackers collide in the uniquely Russian virtual world of The Red Web.
Blowing Up Russia
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Author : Alexander Litvinenko
language : en
Publisher: Gibson Square Books Ltd
Release Date : 2021-09-01
Blowing Up Russia written by Alexander Litvinenko and has been published by Gibson Square Books Ltd this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-09-01 with History categories.
Strikingly written and based on Litvinenko’s 20 years of insider’s knowledge of Russian spy campaigns, Blowing up Russia describes how the successor of the KGB fabricated terrorist attacks and launched war to have the unknown Putin - Litvinenko’s former superior at the Russian secret service - elected with a landslide victory.