The work of the Russian secret services in recent years has become an inexhaustible source for memes and anecdotes. We asked Kseniya Kirillova, an expert from the American think tanks The Jamestown Foundation and Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA), about the reasons for the blatant absence of professionalism of intelligence and counterintelligence in a country where there is a real cult of "chekism", and whose president is an offspring fr...

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