Between overt disinformationand covert practice:The Russian special services’ game. Point of View Number 73, March 2019
Journal: Archive of European Integration (AEI) (University of Pittsburgh)
Year: 2019

It is generally believed that one sign that the secret services are doing their job well is that the media says nothing about them. In this respect, Russia is a special case: the services receive an excess of media coverage. This is only partly due to the media’s natural interest in an attractive subject, as well as the services’ own self-promotion (although that is increasingly true around the world). In fact, it is a symptom of Russia’s information warfare, in which the special services’ publi