My oped about my father in The Sunday Times thetimes.com/article/9c1e84…

Thoughts and solidarity with our Reuters colleagues today. A member of a Reuters news team was missing and two others were injured and hospitalized after a Russian missile attack on their hotel in the eastern Ukrainian city of Kramatorsk. ft.com/content/e0856a…

.Andrei Soldatov and Irina Borogan discuss Russia’s return to sabotage—and how NATO countries can develop a collective approach to this growing threat: foreignaffairs.com/ukraine/paris-…

This month 30 yrs ago, 🇫🇷 intelligence captured enfant terrible of #ColdWar terrorism, Carlos the Jackal, in Khartoum, Sudan. For more on his complicated relationship w/#SovietBloc #Czechoslovakia #StB see "Watching the Jackals" now available for pre-order rb.gy/eoob7w

The book of our member, Daniela Richterova (Dr Daniela Richterova) is coming out in the new year but preorder option is now available. 'Watching the Jackals: Prague's Covert Liaisons with Cold War Terrorists and Revolutionaries'

The father of Russia's internet Alexey Soldatov was sentenced to 2 years of labor colony. His son, the investigative journalist Andrei Soldatov, says: 'He was jailed for advocating for a free Internet. Russia's protest against Durov's arrest is propaganda' repubblica.it/esteri/2024/08…

Durov in Detention: The End of Tech Titan Immunity? | "Locked up in a French detention center since August 24, the Telegram billionaire is being questioned about the extremists and criminals using his platform." Andrei Soldatov & Irina Borogan cepa.org/article/durov-…

.⁦Irina Borogan⁩ and me about Durov’s arrest, for ⁦CEPA⁩ cepa.org/article/durov-…

WSJ: In 2017, the year before the meeting with Macron, French spies targeted Durov in a joint operation with the United Arab Emirates that hacked his iPhone, according to people familiar with the matter. The spy operation...was code-named “Purple Music”... wsj.com/world/who-is-p…

.Andrei Soldatov and Irina Borogan discuss Russia’s return to sabotage—and how NATO countries can develop a collective approach to this growing threat: foreignaffairs.com/ukraine/paris-…

It’s twenty years since Beslan. In Beslan, Rus security services seemed to be parts of a broken watch: they were all in one place, but the whole mechanism was out of order. The extract from The New Nobility based on our 2004 reporting with Irina Borogan agentura.ru/en/new-nobilit…

We call on the authorities to free Alexey Soldatov, an innovator and visionary who championed the idea of a free and open internet in Russia and around the world.

.Andrei Soldatov describing the reaction of #russia|s various security services to #Beslan and #Kursk illustrates that in a wholly de-institutionalised environment, responsibility is extremely hard to attribute, hampering lessons learned and accoubility. open.spotify.com/episode/5AKcik…

EFF is deeply concerned about the sentencing of Alexey Soldatov, known as the “father of the Russian internet,” and calls for his immediate release eff.org/deeplinks/2024…

In response to Russia’s arson and sabotage campaign, the West needs to devise a collective intelligence strategy—and it needs to start now, write Andrei Soldatov and Irina Borogan. foreignaffairs.com/ukraine/paris-…

The Slow Strangulation of Russia Sanctions, Irina Borogan and me for CEPA cepa.org/article/the-sl…

The Slow Strangulation of Russia Sanctions | "Ordinary citizens are feeling a tightening noose from measures agreed by the West, creating panic among some Russian businesses." Andrei Soldatov and Irina Borogan cepa.org/article/the-sl…