#intelligence-services

#intelligence-services

Well, it's happened three different times and they're all slightly ridiculous, and this is what I mean by it, it's just like inherently comedic. One was when I came back from my first film, The Road to Guantanamo, we landed at Luton airport celebrating. They took me into a side room, put me in an arm lock, threatened to break my arm, took my phone, were pretending to bash the buttons, accidentally changed the language to Danish, and then kind of like, were like: Did you become an actor to further the Muslim struggle?' I was like: This is hilarious.' And then when I finished that, they were like: OK. Would you like to keep an eye out for us, cause it was really great the way you were answering those questions?' No thank you.

Ukraine's president Volodymyr Zelenskyy has named Canada's former finance minister Chrystia Freeland as an adviser on economic development, a move he says will help strengthen the internal resilience of the war-torn nation. Chrystia is highly skilled in these matters and has extensive experience in attracting investment and implementing economic transformations, he wrote on social media. Right now, Ukraine needs to strengthen its internal resilience both for the sake of Ukraine's recovery if diplomacy delivers results as swiftly as possible,

The SVR (the Foreign Intelligence Service), the GRU (the Main Intelligence Directorate - military intelligence), and the FSB (the Federal Security Service), serve first and foremost as Putin's Praetorian Guard. Their primary responsibility is securing his regime and hold on power. Moreover, Putin rose up through the RIS ranks in the KGB, and later held the post of FSB Director. His feelings toward the RIS are hardly objective. The reputations of Putin and the services are inextricably linked. Anything that significantly tarnishes the highly cultivated myth of RIS omnipotence inevitably damages his own hold on power.