A KGB manual showed how valuable—and how treacherous—Russian émigrés could be. Did KGB veteran Vladimir Putin learn those lessons?
https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-kgb-playbook-for-turning-russians-worldwide-into-agents
https://www.radiosvoboda.org/a/28945900.html
https://www.inopressa.ru/article/29Dec2017/dailybeast/kgb.html
http://www.finanz.ru/novosti/aktsii/banki-rf-na-grani-sistema-ispytyvaet-nebyvaly-stress-1012303927
https://www.kommersant.ru/doc/3512408
https://ru.krymr.com/a/28944363.html
The United States has helped push Islamic State out of Syria and Iraq, and is on stronger footing in its dealings with North Korea, Russia and China.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/27/opinion/rex-tillerson-state-department-diplomacy.html
https://www.vedomosti.ru/economics/articles/2017/12/28/746785-krizis-ostalsya
https://ru.krymr.com/a/28941690.html