Who is Karen Malayan: Russia’s top diplomat in Brussels, or yet another spy?
Vladimir Putin’s envoy to the EU had a strange career path, a spy-linked uncle, spy friends, and allegedly played a role in pre-Brexit dirty tricks in the UK.
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Beware all-expenses trips to China, Estonia’s spies warn EU influencers
“A new trend involves posting job advertisements [on LinkedIn] … and then approaching selected candidates,” Estonia’s intelligence agency said, in its annual report.
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It’s not just spyware scandals: EU is funding the industry that spies on Europeans
Millions of euros worth of EU subsidies and taxpayer money is fuelling the very market that leads to spying on journalists, activitists, politicians and people in the EU, and undermines our democracies.
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[Interview] ‘Disgusting and incomprehensible’: intelligence expert slams Hungary’s secret ties with Russia as crossing all lines
A former Czech intelligence chief slams Hungary after leaked recordings reveal Hungarian foreign minister Péter Szijjártó receiving instructions from the Kremlin. “This behaviour is disgusting and incomprehensible,” Jan Paďourek said. As Budapest shares sensitive EU secrets with Moscow, Nato allies are now cutting ties and bypassing Hungary to protect Western security.
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[Interview] Journalist who was followed by Russian agents in Vienna: ‘If they want to find something out, they will’
Interview with Anna Thalhammer, who exposed Austrian journalists suspected of working for Moscow, why the country treats Russian espionage so casually, and how its history has shaped this attitude.