General Andrey Gurulev, a member of the State Duma Defense Committee, indicated that Russia has established a department in the occupied territories operating similarly to Smersh in the USSR.

"The staff of the Smersh [military counter-intelligence] department ... their families had been brought to the territory of the USSR. Subsequently, Grottrup took part in work led by renowned ...

The FSB’s public relations center said in a note accompanying the disclosed documents the officers of the Soviet military counter-intelligence service Smersh (the Russian acronym of Death to ...

Abakumov, onetime chief of SMERSH, Russia’s World War II counterespionage organization, was tried in Leningrad a fortnight ago before the military tribunal of the Supreme Court of the U.S.S.R ...