Main Intelligence Directorate (GRU), since 2010 officially the Main Directorate of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces (GU), the primary intelligence service of the Russian Armed Forces and is reputedly Russia's largest foreign intelligence agency.

The Foreign Intelligence Service is part of the national-security system and is called upon to protect individuals, society and the state from foreign threats. The President of the Russian Federation oversees the activity of the Foreign Intelligence Service.

As Russia’s primary civilian foreign intelligence agency, the SVR is tasked with collecting the full spectrum of political, economic, and scientific intelligence. The SVR operates both official and unofficial intelligence operations.

The Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) Russian: Служба внешней разведки Российской Федерации, romanized: Sluzhba Vneshney razvedki Rossiyskoy Federatsii, IPA: [ˈsluʐbə ˈvnʲɛʂnʲɪj rɐˈzvʲɛtkʲɪ] is the civilian foreign intelligence agency of Russia.

The Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation [a] (FSB) is the principal security agency of Russia and the main successor agency to the Soviet Union's KGB; its immediate predecessor was the Federal Counterintelligence Service (FSK) which was reorganized into the FSB in 1995.

Headed since 2018 by Admiral Igor Kostyukov, the GRU plays an important role in Russia’s foreign and national security policies. As an arm of the military, the GRU is responsible for all levels of military intelligence, from tactical to strategic.

to Russian intelligence operations in Europe, enhancing capacity sharing and counterintelligence and tracking the illicit movement of funds that lies behind these activities. By showing that aggression abroad has major costs, Europe can push the intelligence services to take a more cautious approach. The “warriors of the secret battlefield”

6 days ago · LONDON (AP) — As Russia moved closer to invading Ukraine nearly three years ago, the United States and its allies took the extraordinary step of declassifying and sharing intelligence to expose Moscow’s plans.. Information flew across the Atlantic from U.S. spy agencies to NATO and Western partners showing that Russia was poised to launch the biggest attack on a European country since ...

Despite Russia’s substantial military losses since its February 2022 invasion of Ukraine, Russia’s intelligence services (RIS) remain a formidable threat to the United States.

Jan 23, 2025 · Russian's new national security strategy (NSS), definitively approved by Vladimir Putin on 2 July, confirms the importance of information warfare in the future strategic confrontations expected by Moscow.