A top Russian security official said in an article published on September 15 that Moscow had "neutralized" hundreds of foreign spies in recent years. Nikolai Patrushev, the secretary of Russia's Security Council, wrote in Russia's foreign intelligence agency's house magazine that "In recent years, hundreds of employees of foreign intelligence services, as well as other persons involved in organizing intelligence and subversive activities against our country and our strategic partners, have been identified and neutralized." Patrushev, a close Putin ally, is a former director of the Federal Security Service (FSB) and is seen as a key advocate of hard-line, hawkish policies within the Kremlin. To read the original story by Reuters, click here.
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