Covert and Political Subversion vs. multiple European states
Serving Objective 3: Enhancing internal political instability and polarization within Western states
19 Oct 2025. Bulgarian interior minister states that Russian intelligence is “working with people smugglers to flood Europe with illegal migrants.” Russian spies are “helping people smugglers find weaknesses in the EU’s external borders,” and are “telling migrants how to exploit EU and UK asylum systems and avoid removal.”
https://www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/article/russia-and-left-wingers-trying-to-flood-europe-with-illegal-migrants-vhmwxxcch
Political and Diplomatic Subversion targeting Svalbard, Norway
Serving Objective 19: Gaining strategic superiority in the Arctic region
Early Sep 2025. Russian officials bring a vehicle to Svalbard “that is ‘almost identical to police cars in Russia’ despite Norway’s criminal code banning ‘the use of foreign marks or designs that pretend to be or easily can be confused with a public authority,’” while a “Russian coal company is “deliberately staging a grey zone situation aimed at provoking reactions and testing how Norwegian authorities will handle the situation.”
https://jamestown.org/program/moscow-using-svalbard-to-test-natos-readiness-and-resolve/
Political and Diplomatic Subversion vs. Bosnia and Herzegovina
Serving Objective 7: Achieving instability in the Western Balkans
9 Sep 2025. Moscow attempts to use its diplomatic support to the separatist-leaning Bosnian Serb leader Dodik to prevent his resignation, with Lavrov meeting Dodik in Moscow, denouncing the Western attempts to push him aside, and calling him the “elected legitimate President of the Serb Republic.”
https://mid.ru/ru/foreign_policy/news/2045966/
See Russian Geostrategy Map and more products on the Other Work page. For the map’s description and context see the map page on the Rondeli Foundation website.
Check out all new entries on the map posted on the website in the Russian Geostrategy Map category.
Modern Great Game Watch 