KGB

Hackers claim to have infiltrated Belarus' main security service

April 27, 2024 2:01 am

The authorities have not commented on the claim, but the website of the Belarusian KGB was opening with an empty page on Friday that said it was “in the process of development”.

MEA staffer 'honey trapped': What's the role of sex in spying?

November 20, 2022 9:25 am

From Mata Hari to K V Unnikrishnan, we take a quick look at how honey traps have been used in espionage.

As many as 4,141 Latvians were just outed as KGB informants

January 19, 2019 9:18 am

For many the appearance of their names, code names and dates of recruitment in the recently released KGB documents has come as a traumatic surprise.

Timeline of events in Alexander Litvinenko investigation

January 21, 2016 7:08 pm

Here is a timeline of events surrounding the case.

Putin stuck in 'KGB mentality': British deputy PM

March 08, 2014 5:39 pm

Referring to the Ukraine crisis, Nick Clegg accused Vladimir Putin for applying "yesterday's divisions and arguments to today's problems".

Captain Russia

February 07, 2014 2:34 am

In the latest photo-op before the Sochi Olympics, Putin and a leopard.

'Strange guy' Snowden set for tough life: Putin

September 04, 2013 9:50 pm

Russia’s flawed election and the humbling of a star

December 12, 2011 3:28 am

Putin loses tsar-like aura,party see drops in support after Kremlin found rigging polls

Putin wife beater,love cheat: report

November 03, 2011 9:52 pm

Putin,59,is expected to return to power next year.

KGB tried to recruit me but I failed the test: British PM

September 13, 2011 2:50 pm

When told of the incident,Russian President said Cameron would have made a very good KGB agent.

Meet the KGB spies who invented fake news

June 22, 2020 6:11 pm

The New York Times reveals how one of the biggest fake news stories ever concocted — the 1984 AIDS-is-a-biological-weapon hoax — went viral in the pre-Internet era. Meet the KGB cons who invented it, and the “truth squad” that quashed it. For a bit.