News Summary

• Russia's intelligence agencies have grown more aggressive in their efforts to steal Western technology.
• Moscow's agents are building fake companies, recruiting middlemen and deploying cyber spies and hackers.
• Four years of international sanctions have hampered Moscow's ability to procure machinery, technology and research.
• The grinding war in Ukraine has taxed key industries and pushed the country toward a potential financial crisis..
• Russia's increasingly aggressive tactics may reflect mounting internal concerns about its economy, which “is not doing well at all,” said Kaupo Rosin, the head of Estonia’s Foreign Intelligence Service.