Russia
Ruselectronics at centre of Russian Safe City monitoring programme

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Vilnius buys from Aaronia, Illuminate in UK, VREC speeds up production

From SIGINT to GEOINT and OSINT, with a dose of cyber, each week we report on events both big and small that matter in the community of technical intelligence providers.

VilniusBorder guard buys German drone detection system

LondonIlluminate tries its luck in UK again

MoscowVega Radio Engineering Corp starts large-scale production of interceptions system Serp-VS6

Russia
Atlas, encryptor-in-chief to Kremlin and intelligence services

Encryption specialist and partner of domestic intelligence Atlas is reinforcing its position as top service provider to Russian ministries.

Russia
Russia's digital development minister caught in power struggle between Kremlin rivals

Maksut Shadayev has come under various forms of pressure behind the scenes in recent weeks. Shadayev, a protege of Putin's deputy chief of staff Sergey Kiriyenko, has a say over a number of crucial security contracts.

Russia
Rostec emerges top dog as Moscow elite jostle for positions

Through skilled lobbying on several fronts, the state-owned defence conglomerate has won a round in the fight for resources and political visibility in a country fixated with the war on Ukraine.

Russia
Siloviki eye facial recognition as potential windfall in their search for funds

With the final touches being put to the 2023 federal budget, Moscow's political class and biometric technology providers are queuing up for the public funds that could be allocated to facial recognition projects.

Russia
Security Vision, the Kremlin cyber protection unit's faithful provider

As Russian intelligence battens down the hatches on who can provide cybersecurity services, some agencies, starting with the FSO's interceptions department, continue to outsource tasks to trusted private partners such as Security Vision's subsidiaries Intellectual Security and Trimeter.

Azerbaijan, Georgia, Russia
FSB keeps close watch on Caucasian borders

The FSB's border patrol is hard at work in the highly volatile Caucasus region, along Russian borders with Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia. The number of control sites is growing and growing.