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KGB

Image of young Vladimir Putin with Russian text
Global Politics
Learn how to be a spy from previously unpublished KGB training manuals
A KGB agent disguise kit is shown with make-up and a wig.
Arts, Culture & Media
You can take selfies with once-secret KGB spycraft at this NY museum
russian meme satan jesus
Sowing Chaos: Russia’s Disinformation Wars
Full Episode
Russian President Vladimir Putin uses a pair of binoculars as he watches a display during the MAKS 2017 air show in Zhukovsky, outside Moscow.
Books
How Putin learned to stop worrying and love internet espionage
Faced with western sanctions, the Kremlin has pushed for a renewed sense of patriotism among younger Russians. At the National Unity Day celebrations in Moscow, students sport buttons that read, "An attack on Russia is an attack on me."
Global Politics
Human rights group Memorial is too ‘inconvenient’ for Putin’s new Russia
A film still of physicist Alexander Vilenkin from the set of "Dau". He was flown to Kharkov for a week to play the role of a scientist in the movie.
Arts
This movie about a Soviet scientist may be the grandest experiment in film history, if it ever gets finished
Alina Simone's father, Alexander Vilenkin, at the Kharkov Zoo in 2011. Vilenkin worked there as a night watchman after he was blacklisted by the KGB in Soviet Ukraine.
Conflict & Justice
This Soviet-born émigré remembers working at the Kharkov zoo
Alina Simone's father, Alexander Vilenkin, at the Kharkov Zoo in 2011. Vilenkin worked there as a night watchman after he was blacklisted by the KGB in Soviet Ukraine.
Conflict & Justice
This Soviet-born émigré remembers working at the Kharkov zoo
Spy show The Americans on FX
Arts, Culture & Media
In the TV spy show ‘The Americans,’ the CIA has to approve the scripts
Arts, Culture & Media
Sergei Tretyakov on ‘Bob Edwards Weekend’
Arts, Culture & Media
Keeping Up with the KGB Jennings: A New TV Spy Thriller, ‘The Americans’
Lifestyle & Belief
Moscow’s Jewish choir