After the reform in the special services of the spies of the Russian Federation became more dangerous - The Economist

According to journalists, the priority task of exploration of the Russian Federation is to prepare for a possible conflict with NATO. Moscow also seeks to undermine Ukraine's support, steal secrets, increase differences among NATO countries and weaken the West's impact in the Global South. Russian intelligence services have drawn conclusions from recent ages, now agents have returned to Western countries and are even more dangerous than ever.

About it reports the British magazine The Economist with reference to the new report of the Royal Joint Institute of Defense Research (Rusi). Rusi's research was prepared by experts of the Center Jack Wotling and Nick Reynolds together with the excellent defense of Ukraine Oleksandr Danylyuk. The authors made their conclusions on the basis of materials that were reported, received from Russian special services and documents of special services of Ukraine and the EU.

It is reported that at the end of 2022, the first deputy head of the Presidential Administration Sergey Kiriyenko headed "special influence committees" who are engaged in operations against the event. As a result, Russian propaganda became more consistent. For example, Moldova is given. Information campaigns against European support of Ukraine intensified.

In January, the social network X (in the past Twitter) found a network of 50,000 bots that distributed thousands of messages to the German -language audience every day. The French police, in turn, found a large network of sites with misinformation, which was managed by the Russian Federation. Propaganda was focused on France, Germany and Poland.

After a large -scale reform in Russian military intelligence (GRU) to the employees of part 29155 (responsible for foreign operations, including the poisoning of Sergei Skripal), they were banned from hiring mobile devices. The stationary relationship is now used. They teach agents at conspiratorial objects, not in part. Among other things, they abandoned the practice of hiring employees from servicemen.

The main part of current employees without military experience, and this does not allow employees of the Western special services to identify their persons. The special unit "Special Operations Service" (V/H 54654) forms a network of illegal aliens. Spies are found because of the fart -based companies to hide the names. Agents are being introduced into foreign fixed ministries and private organizations.

They actively work with foreign students at Russian universities, students from Balkan countries, Africa and other developing countries. They are paid scholarships. They also recruit among the Russians who went abroad. The special services of the Russian Federation quickly divided the inheritance, which remained after the death of the founder of PEC "Wagner" Yevgeny Prigogin, who died in August 2023.

The FSB is controlled by its Russian structures, the CZR - the media companies, including the so -called. "Troll Factory", game - militarized structures (and those that are fighting in Ukraine and foreign). Last year, the structures operating in other countries were instructed to recruit 20,000 employees, but did not fulfill the plan.