Intelligence Online Daily Issue May 9, 2022

 

Daily issue Monday 9 May 2022

SPOTLIGHT

RUSSIA _ _  BELARUS _ _  GOVERNMENT INTELLIGENCE _ _   How Russia is working to absorb Belarusian news networks into sovereign internet   While everyone's focus is on Ukraine, the information space in Belarus continues to quietly but steadily move towards a shared sovereign internet with Russia, one that is controlled by the latter's security and cut off from the rest of the world.  [...]

GOVERNMENT INTELLIGENCE

RUSSIA _ _   Kiriyenko dynasty flouts sanctions and gains influence at heart of Kremlin   Russian oligarchs and politicians hit by Western sanctions are seizing the new opportunities that have begun to surface from the reshaping of the balance of power within the country's intelligentsia, and there is one clan rising above the rest.  [...]      CHINA _ _  UKRAINE _ _   War in Ukraine: China concentrates its diplomatic attention on Europe   Although China, Russia and America are toughening up their public positions, the authorities in Beijing are working behind the scenes to push the different parties towards their own proposals for resolving the conflict in Ukraine.  [...]      AFGHANISTAN _ _  UNITED STATES _ _  FRANCE _ _  UZBEKISTAN _ _  RUSSIA _ _  EUROPEAN UNION _ _   The Intelligence Gazette: Afghan planes in Tashkent, Russian military engineers decorated, DNI   Appointments, reforms and the issues at stake: every Monday, we serve up snippets big and small from the global intelligence community. This week, we go from Paris to Tashkent, Washington, Brussels and Kabul.  [...]

INTERNATIONAL DEALMAKING

UNITED ARAB EMIRATES _ _  INDIA _ _  TURKEY _ _   India's fallen signal intelligence king hawks Turkish drones to Dubai   From Dubai, where he now runs his firm specialising in intelligence equipment, Stratign, Anant Bidal is selling military drones. Branded as being his company, they are in fact designed by Turkish manufacturers.  [...]      FRANCE _ _  ISRAEL _ _  VIETNAM _ _   Anti-corruption investigation: Charges against Vietnamese businesswoman threaten to impact Israeli and French defence companies   Nguyen Thi Thanh Nhan, a key Western defence deals broker, is keeping away from her native Vietnam where she is wanted for corruption in a case that has exposed an influence battle in Hanoi.  [...]

CORPORATE INTELLIGENCE

AUSTRALIA _ _  UNITED STATES _ _  UNITED KINGDOM _ _   John Coates affair: private investigations at heart of International Olympic Committee rift   The rivals of Australia's sports king are going all out to kick him into touch.  [...]

SURVEILLANCE & INTERCEPTION

TURKEY _ _   Cyberinvestigation firm DIFOSE supplies foreign technology to Turkish law enforcement agencies   The Ankara-based judicial forensics firm DIFOSE, trusted local security forces's contractor founded by former Turkish gendarmes, grows its foreign solutions portfolio that have been of benefit to Turkey's own fight against terrorism and crime.  [...]

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