Explain the researchers of the special services of the Russian Federation Andrei Soldatov and Irina Borogan Prigozhin press service / AP / Scanpix / Leta video message Evgeny Prigozhin, recorded in Rostov-on-Don after the capture of the city by the fighters of the PMC Wagner. June 24, 2023 Evgenia Prigozhin’s military rebellion, who rolled around the country in a day and fell silent as suddenly as it began, left behind many questions.

Putin reportedly turns on FSB agency that botched Russia’s Ukraine prep Evgeny Feldman for Meduza As Russia’s war against Ukraine enters its third week, President Vladimir Putin is cracking down on his favorite agency — the FSB. Journalists Andrei Soldatov and Irina Borogan, who have long specialized in covering Russia’s security services, report that the FSB’s foreign intelligence arm, the so-called Fifth Service, has become the target of repressions.

Evgeny Feldman for "Medusa" After two weeks of the war, Russian President Vladimir Putin began repressions against his favorite department - the FSB. According to journalists Andrei Soldatov and Irina Borogan, the so-called 5th FSB service fell under the blow. Her leadership, according to the sources of Soldatov and Borogan, was sent under house arrest. There is no official confirmation of this information. Medusa asked Soldatov and Borogan to explain what was happening.

In society Results-2021. Arrests, arrests, arrests - and liquidation January 11, 2022 Andrey Soldatov, Irina Borogan Last year, it is impossible to call boring any way, the events developed dynamically, however, not in a very optimistic direction. And this time, not only for independent journalists and opposition politicians, but also for Russian elites.

Irina Borogan , Andrey Soldatov / pixabay.com “Polit.ru” as part of a partnership with the “Civil Enlightenment School” publishes a textual decoding of conversation with reporters, creators of the AGentura.ru website, authors of the books “New Games of Patriots. Special services are changing the skin ”,“ New nobility. Essays on the history of the FSB ”and“ Battle of Runet.

The Civil Education School continues the 2019 online program. The program consists of ten online meetings with experts in the field of law, economics, political science, sociology, philosophy, media. “Polit.ru” in the framework of partnership with the “Civil Enlightenment School” will publish direct broadcasts of discussions and their transcripts. The second meeting of the program took place on April 3.

Mark Urban, The Skripal Filies (Skripal dossier), Ben Macintyre, The Spy and the Traitor (Spy and Traitor) - what we learned and why it makes sense to read these books Without a doubt, the books of the British authors of Mark Urban and Ben Mcyntire about Russian rebiegers Sergey Skripale and Oleg Gordievsky, who were released in the fall one after another, have already been studied in detail in the GRU and the SVR.

2017 was a year when it became completely clear-the old rules of the Putin’s special services developed in the 2000s came to an end. The rivalry of uncontrolled law enforcement agencies turned into feudal estates by their leaders, and the same medieval idea of ​​the “new nobility” as a Russian elite - all this ceased to be relevant.

Last year, it began under the sign of strengthening the Internet censorship, continued with repression against bloggers, and ended with American sanctions against the leadership of the GRU for hacker attacks on the servers of the Democratic Party during the presidential election campaign. At first glance, all this does not sound too happy, but several reasons for optimism in the future remain.

In the Kremlin The results of the year. Spynomania, borders for Runet and the return of terrorist attacks January 6, 2016 Andrey Soldatov, Irina Borogan All last year, for the FSB, as well as for other Russian law enforcement agencies, he went under the sign #Crimeanash and a military conflict in the Donbass. First of all, this was expressed in a fit of spyingomania.

In the regions A physicist was arrested in Sarov April 22, 2015 Irina Borogan On Wednesday night, the Sarovsky City Court of the Nizhny Novgorod Region decided to arrest the accused of disclosing the GOSTain of the former researcher of the Russian Federal Nuclear Center Vladimir Golubev. The decision was made at about one in the morning. 66-year-old Golubev is an explosive specialist. In July 2014, he was suspected of disclosing secret information.

In uniform The results of the year. FSB. PR war January 6, 2015 Andrey Soldatov, Irina Borogan 2014 went to the FSB under the sign of foreign policy activities. First, at the Olympic Games in Sochi, the security of which was personally responsible for the FSB deputy director Oleg Syromolotov, something that everyone was afraid of - terrorist attacks, and the international prestige of the FSB sharply grew sharply.