The French newspaper "Liberation" presents a selection of astonishing stories about the mysterious world of Russian espionage in the midst of the war with Ukraine, reminiscent of the days of the State Security Committee or the famous KGB, when Soviet spies flocked to the world Cold War days.

In an audio recording of the newspaper, journalist Salome Cordoli narrates 5 recent stories related to Russian spies, and highlights the repeated intervention targeting specific countries, exploring the different methods used by clients to achieve their goals such as surveillance, hacking, infiltration and espionage, and exposes the strategies pursued by the victim countries to confront this work. .

The most recent of these stories - as the video tells - was the arrest of a Russian citizen in Norway, who came to the country as a Brazilian researcher and worked at a university in the north of the country, in an area of ​​great importance to Russia. To and from Russia, which spies don't usually do.

In Norway, 7 Russian citizens were also arrested after they were accused of illegally flying rallies to photograph strategic areas in the north of the country, and Andrei Yakunin, the son of Russian Railways chief who is close to President Vladimir Putin, was found among them.

As for the story that caused a sensation - according to the audio recording - it is the discovery of traces of Russian spies on the French advertising site "Leboncoin", and they are trying to recruit young French researchers, targeting mainly young people specialized in engineering and political science, who are expected to obtain important positions in The French administration or industry in the future, and they made 12 recruitment attempts in two years.

Another story shows an infiltration attempt in the Netherlands, the recording says, when a Russian spy was arrested last year on his arrival at Amsterdam airport, and he presented as a Brazilian who was accepted as a member of the International Criminal Court now investigating war crimes in Ukraine, which means that he was - If he does not reveal him - he will give the Kremlin very valuable information, and it turns out that he works for the Russian military intelligence.

Finally, the recording told the story of the computer hacking of former British Prime Minister Liz Strass by Russian hackers for an entire year, when she was Minister of Foreign Affairs in charge of issues related to the war in Ukraine.

The recording indicated that the Russians have developed new methods of espionage and interference that defame the sovereignty of countries, especially neighboring countries, and these methods include recruiting spies, intelligence work, surveillance, infiltration and hacking, which helps Moscow take a step forward over its enemies wherever they are in this world.


Counter spies

In order to combat these roads, the victim countries are adopting different strategies, as the record shows. Neighboring countries seek to build a wall with Russia, such as Finland and Poland. Finland, which has the longest border with Russia, decided to prevent entry to any Russian citizen holding a tourist visa.

For its part, Norway has decided to raise the defense budget by 10% next year, and it is explicitly considering returning any Russian citizen to the borders of his country, while France works in different ways to confront Russian espionage, sometimes resorting to expelling spies to their country, and sometimes isolating them secretly.

The recording concluded that there is a political and strategic challenge behind these stories, proving that the Russian threat takes many forms, and that Moscow does not want to stop at all.