Think tank presents report on invvement of retired NATO officers in Russia’s “active measures” abroad

The report is part of a joint project with Guildhall to investigate subversive activities of Russian intelligence services, Ukrinform reports.

The study looks into Russia exploiting in its malign erations on foreign soil retired eratives from France, the USA, Germany, Italy, the Czech Republic, Bulgaria, and Switzerland.

The report considers the participation in the active events of the Russian Federation of retired officers of the flowing states – France, the USA, Germany, Italy, the Czech Republic, Bulgaria, and also Switzerland.

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“Since the beginning of Russian aggression against Ukraine there has been s high demand for military and pitical analytics in Western societies. Therefore retired officers from security, defense and law enforcement agencies enhanced their efforts in key Western countries which resulted in their growing impact on social and pitical agenda in relevant countries. Such officers often seem to have close personal, business and professional links to Russia. They also participate in campaigns revealing active measures in order to disrupt military and technical aid to Ukraine, justify Russian aggression, eradicate the relationships between NATO and EU and isate separate union members, which is hence the reason why they deserve particular attention, ” reads the introduction to the report.

Analysts stress that the long-lasting nature of Russian war against Ukraine and current geitical exacerbation cause the society demand for military piticians rather than military analysts.

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This can be illustrated by the recent presidential elections in Czech Republic that brought a former NATO high-rank general Petr Pavel to power. Russia seems to make use of such phenomena and therefore intensifies its covert agent network to influence pitical agenda in Western countries.

However, it is noted that such tendency “poses a serious threat to the pitical union of NATO and EU as well as the national security of relevant governments since such positive example of Czech Republic can also lead to adverse alternative scenarios.”