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…g blocks that built Western Europe and the United States, and I think it’s what can see us forward. You know, Putin’s been quite an interesting character. He’s also very, very, very intelligent. I can see this in the United States where he’...
…Clearly, whoever Lugovoy called had the power to arrange the meeting. Power evidently works in unseen ways in Putin’s Russia. Kucherena’s office was only two subway stops from the National hotel, and I arrived ten minutes early. A reception...
BREAKING DOWN DEMOCRACY: Goals, Strategies, and Methods of Modern Authoritarians In May 2014, Putin signed a new law that criminalized the purposeful distortion of the Soviet Union's role in World War II. It could easily be applied to histo...
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Putin? NATO? Those were the points my sister raised that were concerning. Will meet you in Boston or NYC sometime. Curious to hear...
…rally in control of his life in Russia. Kucherena’s answer on the television program may also help to explain Putin’s decision to allow Snowden to come to Moscow. It was not a minor sacrifice for Putin. His foreign minister, Sergei Lav- | |...
he day Snowden left the Mira. Te-Ping Chen and Ken Brown, “Snowden’s Options for Refuge Narrow,” Wall Street Journal, June 10, 2013 8. “He sent journalist Glenn Greenwald …”—Greenwald’s description of his encounters with Snowden is taken ma...
…debriefed,” he said. He also said GRU specialists in signal intelligence would be called in. We know that the Putin regime paid a significant price in terms of the cancellation of the pre-Olympics summit with Obama. Having to accept the onu...
…without advance planning. Nor would he be removed from the plane without a plan for his stay in Russia. Since Putin himself has taken credit for authorizing Snowden’s trip to Russia, there is no reason to doubt that these plans, and whateve...
… of a CIA rendition team dropping from the sky or extradition proceedings. He was now under the protection of Putin’s Russia. As far as Snowden was concerned, as he told Gellman of the Washington Post on December 21, 2013 in Moscow, “The mi...
… Duma in 2008, and also hosted a 24 part television series espionage for which he was personally decorated by Putin. He was also now reputed to be in the inner circle of power in Moscow. So I called him. We arranged to meet in the lobby bar...
… move. By providing Snowden with this platform to rail against the surveillance practices of his adversaries, Putin laid claim to the moral high ground in the Game of Nations. What remains missing from this picture is Snowden's motive in re...
…that network. Russia, China’s longtime intelligence ally, would not even need to go to such lengths since, as Putin gloatingly confirmed, he contacted its diplomats in Hong Kong. The Russian intelligence service would them swing into action...
…im a measure of anonymity, it was not beyond the ability of the world-class cyber services to crack it. Under Putin, Russia had built one of the leading cyber espionage services in the world. According to a 2009 NSA analysis of Russian capa...
ssian efforts. Yet, for almost seven decades, ever since the inception of the NSA in 1952, the Russian Intelligence service had engaged in a covert war with the NSA. The Russian intelligence service is, as far as is known, the only intellig...
hened Russia’s relations with China. The last measure was essential since China was Russia’s principle ally in opposing the extension of American dominance. Yet, there was still an immense gap between it and the United States in communicati...
…d her, When Chapman returned to Moscow after the spy exchange, she was taken to a well-publicized dinner with Putin. Afterwards, she informed her debriefer at the SVR that only Poteyev had been in a position to know the password that the FB...
…ain: the NSA had failed to protect them. This intelligence failure did not happen out of the blue. Meanwhile, Putin added insult to the injury by awarding the alleged perpetrator sanctuary in Russia. CHAPTER EIGHTEEN The Unheeded Warning “T...
…as a blatantly unfriendly act. As such, it could (and did) lead to the cancellation of the planned summit. So Putin knew the downside of admitting Snowden. But there was also an upside if Snowden had access to the NSA documents. A large arc...
…rally in control of his life in Russia. Kucherena’s answer to the question of access also may help to explain Putin’s decision to allow Snowden to come to Moscow. As has been discussed earlier, it was not a minor sacrifice for Putin. His fo...
…had refused to cooperate with Russian authorities. In Snowden’s case, he was even allowed to participate in a Putin’s telethon on state-controlled television. On it, he was called on to ask Putin if the Russian government violated the priva...
