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The Foreign Intelligence Service [a] (SVR) is the civilian foreign intelligence agency of Russia. The SVR succeeded the First Chief Directorate of the KGB in December 1991. [2] The SVR has its headquarters in the Yasenevo District of Moscow with its director reporting directly to the President of the Russian Federation.
The head of Germany's foreign intelligence service, Bruno Kahl, said last month Russia's acts of sabotage against Western targets may eventually prompt NATO to consider invoking the alliance's ...
With the collapse of the Soviet Union, the KGB was dissolved and split into various successor services in the Russian Federation, including the domestic intelligence service FSB, the military intelligence service GRU and the foreign intelligence service SVR. The last Russian troops withdrew from East Germany in 1994. In the chaotic 1990s ...
A widening investigation of alleged Russian spying inside Germany’s intelligence service has set off alarms in the West and sparked calls to overhaul the BND.
Unlike Russia's other security and intelligence agencies – such as the Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR), the Federal Security Service (FSB), and the Federal Protective Service (FSO) – whose heads report directly to the president of Russia (see Intelligence agencies of Russia), the director of the GRU is subordinate to the Russian military ...
Germany's domestic intelligence agency has warned against a cyber group belonging to Russian military intelligence (GRU) Unit 29155, saying it has carried out cyberattacks against NATO and EU ...
A German national who worked for a government agency that equips the German armed forces, has been arrested on suspicion of spying for Russia, the German Federal Public Prosecutor’s Office said ...
Operation Summer Rain was a highly classified joint mission involving the Federal Intelligence Service and special units of the German Armed Forces during the Soviet-Afghan War in the 1980s. The primary objective of the operation was to gather intelligence on the weapons systems utilized by Soviet forces.