The State Security Committee of Belarus (KGB) conducted a multi-stage special operation called "Harpoon", which disrupted ...

A Russian sect leader who claimed he was Jesus Christ reincarnated was sentenced to 12 years in a prison camp on Monday after ...

The Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelensky, signed an agreement with CoE secretary general, Alain Berset, on June 25, ...

Russian spy chief Sergei Naryshkin and the Director of the ... The SVR is the successor to the KGB’s First Chief Directorate. Despite being historical rivals, the CIA and the SVR have agreed to ...

After Iran’s parliament voted to close the Strait of Hormuz, Beijing’s foreign-affairs spokesperson stressed—in what looked ...

Reality trumped art. Thanks to, um, a police occupation of the plaza in front of the old police-car warehouse that is the ...

More than just spies—the KGB was a weapon of control, fear, and silence. Its legacy still shapes Russia’s power plays today.

Alexander Mogilny, whose defection from the Soviet Union and subsequent record-setting tenure with the Buffalo Sabres made ...

The World’s Daniel Ofman speaks with journalists Andrei Soldatov and Irina Borogan about their new book that documents their ...

In February 2025, Alnur Mussayev, a former Soviet and Kazakh security official, claimed in a Facebook post that U.S. President Donald Trump was recruited in 1987 by the KGB, the intelligence ...

Donald Trump's statements about an "immediate" negotiation for a ceasefire in the Russia-Ukraine war have brought back jibes on X about the KGB, the Russian secret service, recruiting him as an ...