Surveillance and Honey Traps: How the Kremlin is terrorizing British diplomats in Moscow

The decision of the British Foreign Ministry on Wednesday to send one Russian diplomat with his wife was a direct answer to Moscow's decision to send two British diplomats on false accusations of "espionage" a week earlier. Both capitals play an ambassador table tennis with increased energy as tension increases through Ukraine. In the last 12 months alone, seven British diplomats were sent from Russia.

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Journalists who have communicated with the embassy workers in Moscow note that this happens constantly and such an interaction is aimed at psychologically knocking out of the track of diplomats of any rank to such an extent that they cease to function properly and eventually go. Moreover, many methods have been used since the Cold War. It all begins with a thorough and forensic analysis of the FSB of every British (and not only) diplomat who works in Moscow.

Personal circumstances are evaluated and potential vulnerability is revealed. In the end, attempts are made to establish sexual orientation and potential inclinations. Russia is the state of tracking, and even the most personal details are revealed over time. Despite the road in Ukraine, there is no lack of intelligence officers, agents and assets who perform the Kremlin's assignment.

Diplomats know that when they emerge from the British Embassy near the Novoarbat Bridge, they can be sure that they will be monitored on the road to their allegedly personal apartments in the city center and back. In 2007, the former UK Ambassador, Sir Tony Brenton, became a victim of a three -month campaign by the Osi Property Youth Group. They followed him everywhere, threw his car with postcards, shouted at him at meetings and stopped doing so only at the instructions of Vladimir Putin.

However, soon this spirit of reconciliation ended when Putin made his notorious speech at the Munich Conference on Security, announcing the end of the so -called unipolar world. In some cases, intimidation may be associated with a physical threat when people hired by the crowd publicly attack diplomats on the streets. Diplomat apartments break, leave business cards there, or just hints that someone was here: a broken vase, or unmixed water in the toilet.

Icelandic diplomats mentioned how they came home and found that all windows were open in the middle of winter, and on the couch - traces of cigarettes. One Icelandic Vegetarian diplomat, found in her refrigerator. "Their message is clear: we know where you live, we can enter when we want and we see," the journalists said. The UK Ambassador to Russia, Lori Bristou, was an ambassador of the United Kingdom to Russia during the attempted violin.

"The goal is to undermine the ability of the embassy to function, reduce the moral spirit and complicate the process of persuasion of people to occupy a position in Moscow," Bristou told. Therefore, only the most stable, which are specially selected after long interviews, go to Moscow.

The Security Group of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs conducts comprehensive training for survival in the conditions of tracking: from basic cybersecurity and telephone safety to the fight against "honey traps" - sent beauties and beauties that tempt diplomats.

They are told directly: if you are a bald, gray and slightly bubble 50-year-old man, do you have to admit it and ask yourself why a pretty young girl or a guy find interest in you? Recall that the Russian ambassador to Bulgaria was in the center of the scandal. Eleanor Mitrofanova appeared to the exhibition, from where she was expelled with shame.