Cuba said that 32 officers assigned to protect Venezuela’s deposed strongman were killed by U.S. forces, signaling trouble for Havana’s own rulers.

New KGB files reveal how Estonia's first president, Konstantin Päts, and military chief Gen. Johan Laidoner — and their families — endured Soviet surveillance and prison. Three boxes of KGB files have ...

Putin retired from the KGB in 1991 after the Soviet Union collapsed. Vladimir Putin began his career as a mid-ranking KGB officer in the late 1970s He was posted to Dresden in 1985, working undercover ...

A Russian policeman guards the monument for the victims of political repressions in front of the FSB security service (former KGB) headquarters in Moscow on Oct. 29, 2025 (Credit: ALEXANDER NEMENOV) A ...

In February 2025, Alnur Mussayev, a former Soviet and Kazakh security official, claimed in a Facebook post that U.S.

MINSK, 7 August (BelTA) – The State Security Committee (KGB) effectively counters challenges and threats despite the rapidly evolving situation around Belarus, State Secretary of the Security Council ...

During a recent trip to Tallinn, I visited the horrific manifestations of an unredeemable totalitarian regime. A similar system is unfolding in Trump’s America. Beds are seen inside a migrant ...

Covert files gathered by the Soviet-era KGB regarding former President Kennedy’s 1963 assassination are on track to be revealed to the American public for the first time this fall, Rep. Anna Paulina ...

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MINSK, 22 June (BelTA) – A total of 38 prisoner swaps were carried out between Russia and Ukraine with the assistance of Belarus, Chairman of the State Security Committee of Belarus (KGB) Ivan Tertel ...

Former KGB Colonel Oleg Gordievsky explains how, during the 1991 coup attempt, a KGB general would probably have arrived at Mikhail Gorbachev's Black Sea resort to organise a peaceful change of guards ...

One of Elon Musk's engineers at the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), Edward "Big Balls" Coristine, is reportedly the great-grandson of a former KGB agent. This is according to journalist ...