Spy

Alexander Palladin11.12.2024

Melor Sturua As a Mirror of Soviet Elite’s Evolution: Part II Soviet authorities upheld the decision to declare Nagorski persona non grata. Thus, Melor Georgievich managed to return to the United States only 8 years later, when our country hit Catastroika, as Alexander Zinoviev, Soviet philosopher, writer, and sociologist, branded Perestroika. In 1990, Sturua started […]

Alexander Palladin10.12.2024

10 days before the US presidential election, Izvestia’s film crew sent from Moscow to cover the event was detained at the Washington airport. The Russian reporters had valid entry visas, but their equipment was taken away, and they were interrogated for several hours. Cameraman’s visa was cancelled and he had to return to Moscow. Which […]

Andrey Vedyaev10.08.2024

The founder of domestic sabotage intelligence is Senior Major of State Security Yakov Serebryansky. A special place in the state security system is occupied by sabotage intelligence. Its purpose, unlike foreign policy intelligence, is not just to collect information about important strategic objects and military and political figures of the enemy, but to penetrate these […]

Andrey Vedyaev03.08.2024

Pavel Mikhailovich Fitin will forever go down in the history of foreign intelligence as the head of the first national intelligence service, created in our country in 1938-1939 through the efforts and genius of the People’s Commissar of Internal Affairs Lavrenty Pavlovich Beria. By the mid-thirties, Soviet intelligence had been captured by international adventurers from […]

Andrey Vedyaev28.07.2024

On the last day of the outgoing year 1900, in the village of Rzhaventsy in the Bessarabian province of the Russian Empire, the most charming and attractive intelligence officer of the 20th century, the “queen of recruitment” Elizaveta Yulievna Zarubina, née Esther Rosenzweig, was born. She penetrated Trotsky’s plans, was a liaison for SS Hauptsturmführer […]

Andrey Vedyaev25.04.2024

Olga Chekhova was a film star of the Third Reich and Hitler’s favorite actress. And all these years she was at the forefront of the invisible front, playing a complex and dangerous game against the leaders of the Nazi regime. It’s hard to believe, because she was not included in any foreign or military intelligence […]

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Melor Sturua As a Mirror of Soviet Elite’s Evolution: Part II

Melor Sturua As a Mirror of Soviet Elite’s Evolution: Part I

Reconnaissance for Defeat

Chief of Intelligence

Cherchez la Femme

Olga Chekhova — the “Queen of the Nazi Reich” and Russian Spy

Melor Sturua As a Mirror of Soviet Elite’s Evolution: Part II

Exodus from Syria

Melor Sturua As a Mirror of Soviet Elite’s Evolution: Part I

World War I Heroes In Memoriam: Part II