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Mayak Intelligence Ltd is a boutique research, writing, education and consultancy firm based in London, concentrating on Russia, as well as certain wider thematic issues relating to organised and transnational crime, war, politics and history.

Its principal director is Prof. Mark Galeotti, a veteran observer of Russian security and politics, currently holding a variety of positions in London, and previously senior researcher at the Institute of International Relations Prague, professor of global affairs at New York University, and adviser at the British Foreign & Commonwealth Office. He is a prolific author and you can read more about him and other researchers associated with us here, as Mayak Intelligence also works with a network of affiliate researchers, analysts and experts in Russia and beyond.

Why ‘Mayak’?

Mayak is the Russian word for ‘lighthouse,’ a source of illumination that one hopes will help others steer away from rocks and shipwreck. It is also the name of a very nice bar-restaurant in Moscow, once very much a haunt of the cultural intelligentsia, where much inside gossip on the capital’s political, economic and social scenes was shared over a bottle or a shot. Needless to say, Mayak Intelligence Ltd is in no way connected with that other Mayak.

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What Are We Thinking About Now?

Belarus is much in the news, for obvious reasons. Before then it was Khabarovsk. But COVID-19 remains a serious challenge to Russia, and arguably of far greater systemic impact. Russia’s much-vaunted new vaccine notwithstanding, the economic shock of the pandemic is likely to shape the politics of the next year.

Quote of the Moment

“Developing relations in a variety of areas would be for the benefit of our countries and peoples” – Putin to Boris Johnson, in message congratulating him on his elevation to Number 10

What We’re Reading

Gordon Corera, Russians Among Us (William Collins, 2020) – a slightly somewhat breathless journalistic account of Russia’s espionage operations in the past few decades, especially on the US-based ‘Illegals’ ring, but readable, intelligence and full of great quotes and vignettes.

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Mayak Intelligence

A boutique research, writing, education and consultancy firm based in London but concentrating on Russia, as well as certain wider thematic issues relating to organised and transnational crime, war, politics and history.

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