Issue 4279. Last Updated: 11/20/2009

Blows Below the Belt

By Andrei Soldatov
The latest round in a boxing match between Russia's and Britain's secret services began on July 4, when an article appeared in the British press quoting the MI5 counterespionage unit as saying that the number of Russian spies flooding the country had made Russia the third-greatest threat to Britain after Iran and al-Qaida.

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