The mysterious cloak-and-dagger world of international espionage and its real-life heroes and villains are exposed in a new exhibition, the first to be sanctioned by U.S. intelligence agencies. NEW YORK — The mysterious cloak-and-dagger world of international espionage and its real-life heroes and villains are exposed in a new exhibition, the first to be sanctioned by U.S. intelligence agencies. "Spy, the...

... amplified by the fact that both countries are in an election year when moderation is viewed as a weakness and hyperbole is the norm. So it is surprising that a low-profile group of retired general officers from the United States and Russian military and intelligence services should be a voice of reason. Their recommendation is to shift competition away from the military sphere and to seek trust and strategic stability in our relations. The Elbe Group, which is named after the place where U.S. and Soviet...

A Russian defense company worker was convicted Friday of passing missile secrets to foreign intelligence in the latest espionage case amid a cold spell in Moscow's relations with Washington. A Russian defense company worker was convicted Friday of passing missile secrets to foreign intelligence in the latest espionage case amid...

Senior officials of the security services — the Federal Security Service, the Foreign Intelligence Service and the Federal Guard Service — have declared their incomes for 2011, and, in contrast to other government officials, most don't own vehicles and are the main breadwinners for their families. Senior...

A tabloid claims that Russian intelligence agencies are investigating the possibility that the U.S. military may have brought down the Sukhoi Superjet that crashed in Indonesia. Russian intelligence agencies are investigating the possibility that the U.S. military may have brought...

... Yekaterinburg has been accused of leaking secrets about the intercontinental Bulava missile, Kommersant reported Monday. A Sverdlovsk regional court held proceedings against the employee, who is accused of transferring classified information to foreign intelligence relating to the control systems of the submarine-launched Bulava, a law enforcement source told the daily. "The evidence proving his guilt is sufficient, though the details of the affair are not being revealed yet because they include...

... McFaul. We have decided to ask: 'Why?'" Gudkov and Just Russia Deputy Ilya Ponomaryov signed an appeal for the Duma's ethics committee to investigate the meeting, saying McFaul was a "specialist on Orange Revolutions" and "Western intelligence officials were advising Russian deputies" on the eve of a United Russia convention, Interfax reported. United Russia held a convention Saturday and elected Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev as party leader. United Russia deputies, who control...

... new government will be overseen by Yevgeny Shkolov, a former Interior Ministry official who was appointed assistant to the president, according to the Kremlin's website. Shkolov worked alongside Putin in East Germany during his tenure in KGB foreign intelligence. After leaving the Interior Ministry, Shkolov joined tank producer Uralvagonzavod. Managers at the company mobilized workers to support Putin during his presidential campaign. Putin had already awarded an appointment to the head of the company's...

... columnist Andrei Kolesnikov said in an introduction to the 42-page dossier, which the newspaper published Friday. He compared the data on chamber members, who include well-known businessmen, actors and public leaders, to the information given to foreign intelligence agents. According to the report, the Kremlin believes that billionaire Vladimir Potanin should not be re-elected to the Public Chamber for not taking an active role, while Yaroslav Kuzminov, president of the Higher School of Economics and...

... the armed forces, rising from a cadet to first deputy defense minister and retiring with the rank of marshal. News reports circulated late Thursday that the order might have been bestowed on Churov in secret, a gesture that would be more typical for intelligence officers than public servants. Kremlin and elections commission spokespeople declined immediate comment. Izvestia, citing an elections commission source, first reported in its Thursday edition that Churov would receive the award, and RIA-Novosti...

... to 17th centuries. Bloggers accused him of plagiarism in January — charges that he denied but which caused a fierce debate among scholars and other experts. Medinsky believes “all foreigners who wrote bad things about Russia were foreign intelligence agents,” said Yulia Latynina, a talk show host and Moscow Times columnist who spoke with Medinsky on Ekho Moskvy radio last week, according to comments on her blog. In one of his remarks related to culture, Medinsky complained that...

... leave NATO, reject the euro, end the anti- democratic practices of the EU and help developing countries solve their problems so that their citizens would not have to flee to Europe. The National Front turned out to be the only party with a more or less intelligible social-democratic program, and the party's foreign policy program is more reminiscent of traditional Gaullist policies. As a result, Le Pen staked out a third position for herself, attracting voters from both the left and the right. In the...

... like Sobchak and Malakhov leave television in protest, the easier it will be to attract normal people, ultimately making it unnecessary to create public television. Indeed, the scheming of this former agent of the KGB's liberal, pro-Western Foreign Intelligence Service knows no boundaries. Alexei Pankin is the editor of WAN-IFRA-GIPP Magazine for publishing business professionals. 174862

... Mariinsky star bass-baritone Yevgeny Nikitin creates a very complex and charismatic Boris. There is nothing in his powerful rendition of the role of a misanthropic freak, which is what far too many directors make of Godunov. Rather, this is a highly intelligent and willful leader who has made too many deals with his conscience, which begins to bleed as profusely as some of the tsar's victims. Do modern Russian leaders ever feel remorse? This question, which bothers hundreds of thousands of Russian...