Opinion

Even amid the saber-rattling, Russia’s spies reach out to the U.S.

Andrei Soldatov is co-author of “The Red Web: The Struggle Between Russia’s Digital Dictators and the New Online Revolutionaries” and a senior fellow at the Center for European Policy Analysis in D.C.

Even as Washington and Moscow continue to hurl threats at each other over the possibility of war in Ukraine, one Russian government body has been working hard to give Americans what they want: the infamous Russian Federal Security Service (FSB), the country’s political police — the same organization that counts President Vladimir Putin among its alumni.