June 4, 2023: Because of the disastrous performance of the Russian military and intelligence agencies in Ukraine, many prominent Russians in the military and intelligence agencies are calling for ...

June 4, 2023: Because of the disastrous performance of the Russian military and intelligence agencies in Ukraine, many prominent Russians in the military and intelligence agencies are calling for ...

Aksyonov’s proposal was implemented on December 4 2023, when Lt Gen Andrei Gurulev, from the Russian Duma’s committee on defence, announced the revival of Smersh in the “new territories” – that is, in ...

SMERSH is a portmanteau of the Russian for "death to spies," or "smert shpionam." It was announced in 1943 as a move to target Nazi spy rings, ...

Russian politicians and bloggers say an official Smersh-style group is already active in Russian-occupied areas of eastern Ukraine and could already have been expanded to Russia proper.

Russia has revived SMERSH, a Soviet-era intelligence organisation, in parts of Ukraine that it illegally annexed in recent years, Newsweek said. The report is based on the remarks made by Andrey ...

SMERSH is the Russian-language acronym for "Special Methods To Detect Spies," a secret and notorious group created by Stalin from 1943 to 1946 as a military counterintelligence organization.

SMERSH: STALIN’S SECRET WEAPON, SOVIET MILITARY COUNTERINTELLIGENCE IN WWII By Vadim J. Birstein Foreword by Nigel West Biteback Publishing, $29.95, 512 pages To readers of Ian Fleming’s ...

SMERSH -- short for Smert Shpionam, or Death to Spies -- was real enough, right down to the spooky name. But it existed only for three years, and predated the KGB -- the Soviet secret police ...

“SMERSH was not controlled effectively by anyone, and they could do whatever they wanted,” said Vadim Telitsyn, a scholar at the Institute of Russian History, who wrote a book about the agency.