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Learn how to be a spy from previously unpublished KGB training manuals

Global Politics

A new project aims to translate never-before-published Soviet-era KGB espionage manuals into English.

A KGB agent disguise kit is shown with make-up and a wig.

You can take selfies with once-secret KGB spycraft at this NY museum

Arts, Culture & Media
Russian President Vladimir Putin uses a pair of binoculars as he watches a display during the MAKS 2017 air show in Zhukovsky, outside Moscow.

How Putin learned to stop worrying and love internet espionage

Books
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."

Human rights group Memorial is too ‘inconvenient’ for Putin’s new Russia

Global Politics
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.

This movie about a Soviet scientist may be the grandest experiment in film history, if it ever gets finished

Arts
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.

This Soviet-born émigré remembers working at the Kharkov zoo

Conflict & Justice

Kharkov’s Zoo in eastern Ukraine has been in the news over a shortage of funding and food. But when Kharkov-born writer Alina Simone saw the news, it hit even closer to home. Her dad worked as a night watchman at the 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.

This Soviet-born émigré remembers working at the Kharkov zoo

Conflict & Justice

Kharkov’s Zoo in eastern Ukraine has been in the news over a shortage of funding and food. But when Kharkov-born writer Alina Simone saw the news, it hit even closer to home. Her dad worked as a night watchman at the zoo.

Spy show The Americans on FX

In the TV spy show ‘The Americans,’ the CIA has to approve the scripts

Arts, Culture & Media

The FX show “The Americans” is about a couple of Russian spies passing themselves off as a typical American family — even to their own children. It was created by former CIA agent Joe Weisberg, so his former employer takes a special interest in making sure he doesn’t share any secrets of the trade.

Sergei Tretyakov on ‘Bob Edwards Weekend’

Arts, Culture & Media

Bob talks to the former double agent about his experiences in the late 1990s, spying for both the Russians and the US.

Keeping Up with the KGB Jennings: A New TV Spy Thriller, ‘The Americans’

Arts, Culture & Media

Tonight a new TV series, “The Americans,” premiers on FX. The show harkens back to the Cold War days. Anchor, Marco Werman talks with writer and co-creator of the series, Joe Weisberg.

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Sowing Chaos: Russia’s Disinformation Wars