
Sean Wiswesser - Tradecraft, Tactics, and Dirty Tricks: Russian Intelligence and Putin's Secret War
Sean Wiswesser, a retired CIA senior operations officer, discusses his book on Russian intelligence tactics from the Cold War to the 21st century.

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Sean Wiswesser, a retired CIA senior operations officer, discusses his book on Russian intelligence tactics from the Cold War to the 21st century.

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Pavel Otdelnov is a Russian artist who moved to London from Moscow in 2022. He works in various media and is best known for his projects about his hometown--the industrial city of Dzerzhinsk--and for his powerful visual

Andrei Soldatov and Irina Borogan are investigative journalists who focus on on the Russian intelligence agencies. They are the co-founders of agentura.ru and are now senior fellows at the Centre for European Policy Anal

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Andrei Kolesnikov discusses his book, The Closing of the Russian Mind: How Putin's Ideology Took the Nation Hostage. Andrei is a contributor to Foreign Affairs, Novaya Gazeta, and New Times. Previously, Andrei was a seni

Filip Kovacevic is an intelligence historian, an adjunct professor in the Departments of Politics and Global Studies at the University of San Francisco, and the author of KGB Literati: Spy Fiction and State Security in t

Journalist James Rodgers discusses his new book, "The Return of Russia: From Yeltsin to Putin, the Story of a Vengeful Kremlin", which is about Russia's re-emergence as a military power in the decades since the end of th

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