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[111] [116] Russian ambassador to the Czech Republic, Sergei Kiselyov, has distanced himself from the film and stated that the documentary does not express the official position of the Russian government. [117] One of the most popular Russian online newspapers, Gazeta.Ru, has described the document as biased and revisionist, which harms Russia ...
KGB agent: Russia: 1985: Defected to the UK via Finland; became an MI6 double agent after the 1968 Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia and was sentenced to death in absentia Vitaly Yurchenko: KGB agent: Russia: 1985: Defected in Rome, Italy and exposed two KGB/CIA double agents, Ronald Pelton and Edward Lee Howard; later ended up back in the ...
The Committee for State Security (Russian: Комитет государственной безопасности, romanized: Komitet gosudarstvennoy bezopasnosti, IPA: [kəmʲɪˈtʲed ɡəsʊˈdarstvʲɪn(ː)əj bʲɪzɐˈpasnəsʲtʲɪ]), abbreviated as KGB (Russian: КГБ, IPA: [ˌkɛɡɛˈbɛ]; listen to both ⓘ) was the main security agency of the Soviet Union from 1954 to 1991.
Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, greets Lazar Matveev, the former head of the KGB intelligence group in Dresden, on his 90th birthday in 2017 on the outskirts of Moscow. (Alexey Nikolsky ...
KGB agent, not an officer Yuriy Ivanovich Nosenko [6] January 1964 Switzerland Authenticity of defection disputed [2] Yuriy Aleksandrovich Bezmenov [7] 1970 Canada Intelligence agent, not an officer Sergey Nikolayevich Kourdakov: 4 September 1971 Canada Intelligence agent, not an officer Oleg Adolfovich Lyalin [2] 1971 United Kingdom Imants ...
On February 15, 1985, FIDE President Florencio Campomanes announced that he was abandoning the World Chess Championship match between Garry Kasparov and Anatoly Karpov. For 40 years, the chess ...
The KGB immediately issued an arrest list that included newly elected Russian SFSR President Boris Yeltsin, his allies, and the leaders of the umbrella activist group Democratic Russia. [2] The Russian SFSR-controlled Radio Rossii and Televidenie Rossii, plus Ekho Moskvy, the only independent political radio station, were taken off the air ...
The 1954 ukase establishing the KGB. March 13, 1954: Newly independent force became the KGB, as Beria was purged and the MVD divested itself again of the functions of secret policing. After renamings and tumults, the KGB remained stable until 1991. KGB – Committee for State Security Ivan Serov (March 13, 1954 – December 8, 1958)