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The Moscow rules are rules-of-thumb said to have been developed during the Cold War to be used by spies and others working in Moscow. The rules are associated with Moscow because the city developed a reputation as being a particularly harsh locale for clandestine operatives who were exposed. The list may never have existed as written.
Giles has written on security issues affecting Russia and on the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation.He wrote for the Defence Academy of the United Kingdom's Advanced Research and Assessment Group, is a research director with the Conflict Studies Research Centre, which is a group of subject matter experts in Eurasian security, and is a senior consulting fellow in the Russia and Eurasia ...
Moscow Rules is a 2008 spy novel by Daniel Silva. [1] Featuring Gabriel Allon as a spy/assassin who works undercover as an art restorer, Moscow Rules explores the world of a rising Russia. The villain is a rich Russian oligarch who is a weapons dealer.
Unusually for the Allon series, this novel is a sequel to the previous one (Moscow Rules), with many of the same characters, in particular the antagonist, Ivan Kharkov.. The beginning finds Gabriel Allon and his new wife Chiara resuming the honeymoon in rural Umbria which was interrupted by the events of Moscow Rules; Gabriel is again restoring a painting for the Vatican, this time Guido Reni ...
The first published book by Alexander Zorich The Sign of Destruction was published in 1997 and rapidly gained popularity among fans of fantasy worlds. A historic novel Charles the Duke, dedicated to Charles the Bold, last Duke of Burgundy, gained the title "Best Russian Fiction of 2001" by the "Ex-Libris" book review .
Contrary to the widely accepted view that the Moscow Trials were a series of show trials held at the instigation of Joseph Stalin between 1936 and 1938 against Trotskyists and members of Right Opposition of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, [11] Furr believes that all defendants in the Moscow Trials were at least guilty of what they were charged, [5] as argued in a 2017 article for ...
Sep. 5—ANALYSIS A lot of changes have occurred in recent months during the ongoing Moscow quadruple murder case involving suspect Bryan Kohberger. While community members wait for some kind of ...
Putin's Russia is a political commentary book by the Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya about events and life in Russia under Vladimir Putin. [1] [2] Politkovskaya argues that Russia still has aspects of a police state or mafia state, under the leadership of Vladimir Putin. In a review, Angus Macqueen wrote: [3]