Mike Eckel is a senior international correspondent at Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. He reports on political and economic developments in Russia, Ukraine, and the former Soviet Union, with a focus on cybercrime and espionage. His work has been featured in Eurasia Review, LRT, Homeland Security News Wire, The Ukrainian Weekly, and American Military News.
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By: Mike Eckel
Africa Corps, the Russian Defense Ministry mercenary unit, was supposed to build on the successes of the now-defunct Wagner Group, forging commercial ties and giving a hard-power backstop to shaky African countries. Judging by this weekend’s events in Mali, it’s not going well.
By: Mike Eckel
An Russian oligarch and top business executives are using A7, an influential payments company implicated a vast sanctions evasions scheme relying on a ruble-backed cryptocurrency, for their own transactions.
By: Mike Eckel, Ajla Obradovic
Mali is a mess. Russia’s Africa Corps is pulling out of a major city it helped capture a couple years ago, what some experts say was a humiliation. Here’s what you need to know about what’s going on in the West Africa nation, and what it could mean for Russia.
By: Yehor Lohinov, Mike Eckel
Four-plus years into Russia’s all-out invasion, Ukraine has battled Moscow’s forces to a standstill. In fact, by some accounts, Ukraine has even recaptured territory, offering Kyiv a glimmer of optimism after a grueling winter.
By: Mike Eckel
Russia sharply escalated threats against Kyiv, warning of "systematic and consistent strikes" as Russia's top diplomat urged American citizens to evacuate the Ukrainian capital.
By: Mike Eckel
Frederick Flott, who died in 2006, was a longtime State Department diplomat around the world, as well as a CIA agent who worked under diplomatic cover. For years, the KGB tried to recruit him. Did it succeed?
By: Mike Eckel
What’s the latest brick in Russia’s effort to build its Great Internet Firewall? A proposal to create a government-run Virtual Private Network, co-opting a tool that has been widely embraced by Russians trying to avoid government censorship. Industry insiders are reportedly unimpressed.
By: Mike Eckel
A Russian woman who pleaded guilty to lying about her contacts with Russia’s main intelligence agency -- and was later accused of sending drunken harassing messages to the FBI -- was set to be sentenced in a Manhattan federal court.
By: Mike Eckel
The Russia Day concert, an annual tub-thumping Red Square performance, is canceled for the first time in 23 years. The marquee annual air show is canceled. The Victory Day parade was notably lower key. Ukraine’s expanding drone campaign is taking its toll on big, splashy Kremlin-backed events.
By: Mike Eckel
A Russian woman who pleaded guilty to lying about her contacts with Russia's main intelligence agency -- and was later accused of sending drunken harassing messages to the FBI -- was sentenced to 14 months in prison.
