This book is an introduction to the events in Russia after the fall of the Berlin Wall up to the large-scale invasion of Ukraine, which began on February 24, 2022. Between the lines you will notice that the Russian intelligence apparatuses, most often and for ease, are called âRussian intelligence services,â but this is not the exact diction. Without wishing to be overly punctilious, a clarification is in order. According to the British school, the Russians speak of âspecial servicesâ to refer to their community of spy agencies; an all-encompassing expression of acronyms, functions and...