Filip Kovacevic

Dr Filip Kovacevic teaches at the University of San Francisco. He is a board member of the International Association for Intelligence Education & Director of Outreach for the North American Society for Intelligence History.

Meet Sergey Naryshkin, Putin’s spymaster in Ukraine

On a cool October day in Moscow in 2017, Sergey Naryshkin, the head of the SVR, Russia’s foreign intelligence service, stepped up to the microphone at an outdoor ceremony to unveil a statue honouring a notable predecessor. ‘The name of Pavel Fitin is returning to our history,’ Naryshkin said of the man who ran the