Armenia, Belarus, Central Asia, Russia
CIS launches financial intelligence operation 'Orion'

Russia, United States
World Bank to share best practices with CIS statistics committee

As part of its International Comparison Program, the World Bank is sharing statistical good practice with the Commonwealth of Independent States' Moscow-based interstate statistical body. It relies on Russian consulting firms.

Russia
Financial intelligence remains last Russian bastion open to international cooperation

The discreet Russian financial intelligence service Rosfinmonitoring, which has been closely involved in international cooperation against the financing of terrorism, is an anomaly among Russian agencies, keeping the door open to cooperation on intelligence sharing with foreign partners.

Russia
Moscow stirs up personal data hornet's nest

Personal data, biometric data, civil registration: Russia's lawmakers have been tweaking the law to give its security services greater control of these hot-button files.

The Intelligence Gazette
Truce in Yemen, Russian executives, Transnistria, Rosfinmonitoring

Appointments, reforms and the issues at stake: every Monday, Intelligence Online serves up snippets big and small from the global intelligence community. This week, we home in on Saana, Moscow and Tiraspol.

YemenAnsarullah still vindictive despite truce

RussiaTemporary lease of life for top security officers

MoldaviaTransnistria, on the lookout, barricades itself

RussiaFinancial intel service keeps its staff happy

Kyrgyzstan, Russia
Afghan tensions affords Bishkek spymasters strategic regional role

Taking advantage of the renewed prominence of Central Asia following the Afghan outbursts, the Kyrgyz spymasters are seeking to consolidate their position and to assert the interests of Bishkek in the regional dynamics between Beijing, Islamabad and New Delhi.

Russia
Evgeni Primakov Jr renews Russian soft power as head of Rossotrudnichestvo

An influence tool and relay of Moscow's intelligence apparatus, the Rossotrudnichestvo, Moscow's cultural relations arm, is seeking new opportunities.

Russia
FSB confirms place in Russia's financial intelligence unit

Ivan Kornev was appointed deputy director of Russia's financial intelligence service, the Rosfinmonitoring, on 28 December. Before his promotion, Kornev [...]

Kazakhstan
External intelligence returns to KNB fold

A decree was published last month taking away the independence [...]

Russia
SVR insistant on security cooperation with Alexander Lukashenko

On a visit to Belarus on July 7, Sergey Naryshkin, the head of the SVR, Russia's external intelligence service, reiterated [...]