Vympel is one of the leading FSB (Federal Security Service - the modern day KGB ... that is recognizable as Russian, aside from the Velcro flag patch on his American helmet, is is weapon.

He spent a year and a half communicating informally with recruiters before he flew to the KGB and Soviet Army headquarters in Berlin and met with the head of the security agency. "Out of the blue ...

Lebedev is chairman of the National Reserve Bank and a big stakeholder in Aeroflot Russian Airlines. He is running for mayor of Moscow. The story of the KGB agent turned captain of industry is not ...

RIGA, Latvia — A Russian historian was browsing a display on Soviet dissidents in a dim corner of St. Petersburg’s political museum last month when the name on a 1976 KGB search warrant jumped ...