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.kommersant.ru/doc/3512349
https://www.inopressa.ru/article/29Dec2017/dailybeast/kgb.html
https://zn.ua/internal/ukraina-2018-doroga-mezhdu-vyzovami-i-riskami-no-doroga-270629_.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.kommersant.ru/doc/3508478
http://carnegie.ru/commentary/75112