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This volume examines the history and present of Russian influence operations and Russian intelligence agencies' tactics and strategies. It pays special attention to the terminology used by Soviet and Russian intelligence, their activities in the United States and Ukraine, as well as the global expansion of Russian covert operations over the last decade. The contributors demonstrate how Russia was able to effectively diversify its tactics, working in various domains. Russia's full-scale and genocidal war against Ukraine added another dimension to Russian active measures. Russian intelligence agencies design operations to blackmail, bribe, and coerce governmental officials and private companies to stop or disrupt military and humanitarian assistance to Ukraine. Russian agents create discord among NATO countries in order to compromise their unity and actions aiming to curtail Russian military activities in Ukraine. The volume's contributors--scholars and intelligence professionals--comprise: Olga Bertelsen, John A. Gentry, Sanshiro Hosaka, Sergei I. Zhuk, Nicolas M. Colosimo, Barry A. Zulauf, Kimberly Page, and Victor Rud

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Produced by an expert, this book is incredibly valuable in today's national security environment . . .Original and highly credible research of the contributors.--Jan Goldman, Professor of Intelligence and Security Studies, The Citadel: The Military College of South Carolina This book offers methodological tools, bibliographic resources, and theoretical and practical frameworks that help restore the primacy of knowledge in contexts obscured by Russian narratives and disinformation, ranging from seemingly innocuous inaccuracies to outright fabrications.--Nataliya Shpylova-Saeed, Preceptor in Slavic Languages and Literatures, Harvard University

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Olga Bertelsen (Edited by) Dr. Olga Bertelsen is Associate Professor of Global Security and Intelligence at Tiffin University, Ohio. She studied in Ukraine, the United States, and the United Kingdom, and taught at Columbia University, Harvard, NYU, University of Toronto, and Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. She is a co-director of the Mid-West chapter of the American International Association for Intelligence Education (IAFIE) and sits on the editorial boards of several scholarly periodicals, including the International Journal of Intelligence and CounterIntelligence. She is author of, among others, In the Labyrinth of the KGB: Ukraine's Intelligentsia in the 1960s-1970s (Lexington Books 2023) as well as editor of Les' Kurbas i teatr ""Berezil'"" (Smoloskyp 2016), Revolution and War in Contemporary Ukraine (ibidem-Verlag 2017) and Russian Active Measures (ibidem-Verlag 2021). Her articles have been published in, among other periodicals, East/West: Journal of Ukrainian Studies, Nationalities Papers, Canadian Slavonic Papers, Kyiv-Mohyla Humanities Journal, Genocide Studies International, Journal of Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society, and Europe-Asia Studies. Victoria A. Malko (Foreword by) Dr. Victoria A. Malko is Senior Research Associate at The Koretsky Institute of State and Law at The National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine in Kyiv.

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