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28 Nov 2021, 4:34 pm by INFORRM
Only the first meaning, the allegation that Severnaya Neft was purchased for $300 million above the accepted valuation, and that this overpayment went to President Putin or his KGB associates, was found to be defamatory. [read post]
7 Nov 2021, 7:15 am by Ilya Somin
In Russia, the authoritarian regime of former KGB Colonel Vladimir Putin has embarked on a wholesale whitewashing of communism's historical record. [read post]
7 Nov 2021, 7:15 am by Ilya Somin
In Russia, the authoritarian regime of former KGB Colonel Vladimir Putin has embarked on a wholesale whitewashing of communism's historical record. [read post]
23 Oct 2021, 7:00 am
Garland is currently attempting to restore confidence in an independent, professionalized, apolitical Department of Justice, but he is doing so in the face of claims by his opponents that the DOJ is the new KGB and that its jackbooted thugs are coming to arrest you in the dark of night for expressing peaceful opposition to a classroom curriculum.... [read post]
19 Jul 2021, 3:50 pm by Ram Eachambadi | JURIST Staff
Belarus’s primary security agency, which derives its name from the Soviet-era KGB, claimed that the targets of the raids were those suspected of “extremist activities,” while the Belarus Investigative Committee stated the raids were part of tax evasion and financial violations probe into NGOs and media outlets. [read post]
Drawing on imperial and Soviet traditions, KGB and Communist Party leaders displayed oligarchic tendencies to survive the transition to capitalism by creating new networks of loyal patrons based on shared interests. [read post]
7 Jun 2021, 1:06 am by Steve Lubet
In Rounders, Matt Damon as law student Mike McDermott lays down his monster hand against John Malkovich's Teddy KGB because he accurately spotted the latter's tell. [read post]
4 Jun 2021, 12:22 pm by Christiana Wayne
  Roman Protasevich, the Belarusian dissident journalist who was detained by Belarus’s KGB last month, appeared in an interview on state television crying and with visible wounds, writes the Washington Post. [read post]
24 May 2021, 12:55 pm by Cameron Miles
Two officers of the Belarusian secret police, the KGB, were also onboard. [read post]
1 May 2021, 7:00 am by Ilya Somin
In Russia, the authoritarian regime of former KGB Colonel Vladimir Putin has embarked on a wholesale whitewashing of communism's historical record. [read post]
16 Dec 2020, 6:10 am by Stewart Baker
  Russia’s SVR, heir of the KGB, is making headlines with a remarkably sophisticated and well-hidden cyberespionage attack on a lot of institutions that we hoped were better at defense than they turned out to be. [read post]
15 Dec 2020, 4:43 pm by Stewart Baker
Russia's SVR, heir to the KGB, is making headlines with a remarkably sophisticated and well-hidden cyberespionage attack on a lot of institutions that we hoped were better at defense than they turned out to be. [read post]
29 Nov 2020, 7:30 am by Sean Gallagher
But five years ago around this time, we were following a newly declassified government report from 1990 that outlined a KGB computer model... one that almost pulled a WarGames, just IRL. [read post]
7 Nov 2020, 7:40 am by Ilya Somin
In Russia, the authoritarian regime of former KGB Colonel Vladimir Putin has embarked on a wholesale whitewashing of communism's historical record. [read post]
8 Oct 2020, 10:15 am by Tom Smith
In fact, the nuclear winter scare had been concocted by the KGB to cause terror in the West and promote the nuclear freeze. [read post]
2 Oct 2020, 9:40 am by Jack Sharman
Assuming that the Amazon blurb accurately describes the substance of the work, the negative workplace and cultural implications of the KGB-ish informant system he would set up are significant and would, it seems to me, carry their own set of bad incentives. [read post]
14 Sep 2020, 5:00 pm
Since the 1950s, the KGB has used race as a means of inflaming passions against the United States. [read post]