Russia
PM Mishustin tightens grip on Russian defence industry

Russia
Zarya, guardian of Russia's space programme secrets, joins list of strategic companies

Part of the Russian state agency Roscosmos, Zarya protects information on space and defence programmes, working closely with the intelligence services.

Russia
Kremlin tightens up control of leading air defence group Almaz-Antey

The detection systems subsidiaries of air defence and missiles manfuacturer Almaz-Antey, which had been due to be partially privatised, are now to be kept firmly under state control.

The Intelligence Gazette
Vietnam's MPS, Qassem Al Araji in Tehran, France's new South East Asia diplomat, FSB

Appointments, reforms and the issues at stake: every week, Intelligence Online serves up snippets big and small from the global intelligence community from Hanoi to Paris, via Tehran and Moscow.

VietnamTo Lam wants to further condense public security hierarchy

Iraq/IranQassem Al Araji defuses Sulaymaniyah security issues before return to Tehran

France/Vietnam/RomaniaOlivier Brochet tipped to succeed ambassador Warnery in Hanoi

RussiaFSB's new technical director settles in

Spotlight | Myanmar, Russia
Vladimir Kazadaev opens doors to Russian firms for defence contracts with Naypyidaw

Documents obtained by Intelligence Online reveal the extent of Moscow's efforts to build trade with Myanmar, where delegations of Russian executives and engineers have flocked of late. Vladimir Kazadaev's recent appointment as Russia's trade representative there is the latest example of Moscow's trade push.

Spotlight | Russia
Russian intelligence has eyes and ears on military research

Military research institutes are key players in the war in Ukraine and an integral part of the Kremlin's strategy to establish an entirely local manufacturing chain. Intelligence services are all the more vigilant about potential R&D-related leaks.

Russia
Russia focuses on increasingly strategic Arctic

The Kremlin is determined that sanctions will not affect business in the Arctic. With official encouragement, Russian business leaders are changing the map of the region in the wake of an exodus by Western companies.