This analysis examines aspects of the Russian-Chinese defence relationship: its political motivations, trade between the two counties, collaboration in research and procurement, and military-military cooperation including exercises.
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The activities of Russia’s Intelligence Services have recently received a lot of media attention.
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On June 26th, The Atlantic published an interview with Deniss Metsavas, a convicted traitor. Ivo Juurvee, a research fellow at the International Center for Defence and Security, commented on the possible motives of traitors and how they get caught to the Estonian news portal Delfi.ee.
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In May, we continued discussions with the Estonian security authorities on their annual reviews.
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The Russian foreign military intelligence agency known as GRU has made headlines this week with two separate incidents.
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On 12-13 March, ICDS Research Fellow Piret Pernik spoke in a panel at the public seminar entitled „Facing Putin’s New Presidential Term“ in Madrid.
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As is common in intelligence affairs, the people who know cannot comment. But even the public coverage of recent spy swaps between Estonia and Russia provides some insight into a change of paradigm in post-Cold War “intelligence culture”.
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Cyber capabilities display attractive features for nation-states’ covert influence activities in the grey zone between war and peace. They can be used to support objectives of information warfare in several ways: collecting intelligence, doxing, infecting devices and webpages to spread propaganda, social media bots, and Distributed Denial of Service attacks.
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Due to many political changes in the late stages of the First World War current time is full of centennial celebrations.
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On 20-21 October NSA Center for Cryptologic History held its biennial Symposium on Cryptologic History
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