19 February: Russia’s Duma has approved legislation banning servicemen from having mobile phones (or any electronic recording or storage device) while on active service. The measure has now been passed to President Putin for approval. Citizen journalists in the West have been using soldiers’ social media posts to establish their …
Russia is planning to close internet links between the outside world and Runet (the internet inside Russia) in an attempt to thwart Western cyber attacks. As of 12 February, a draft law is going through its second reading in the Duma. Although the plan is not certain to be put …
8 February: The Daily Telegraph, which is one of the main contact points for the UK intelligence services, has “sources” that say that a third assassin is believed to have been part of the team that planted the Novichok nerve agent used to poison former GRU colonel Sergei Skripal. The …