The GRU’s Hogwarts: Inside Bauman University’s Department 4, an elite spy school for Russian military intelligence

Michael Weiss, Kato Kopaleishvili, Fidelius Schmid, Alexander Chernyshev

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The slim young man with short darkish blond hair appears harmless in his FBI “Most Wanted” photo. But Vladislav Borovkov, a member of Russia’s most notorious black ops unit, stands accused of "criminal cyber activities," specifically using malicious software to disable critical infrastructure in more than a dozen Western countries.

GRU Unit 29155, the Russian military intelligence grouping to which Borovkov belongs, is behind some of the boldest kinetic operations carried out against NATO interests over the past decade and a half. It has poisoned defectors and arms dealers, bombed ammunition and weapons depots, suborned the Taliban to kill U.S. and coalition forces in Afghanistan, and likely deployed directed energy attacks against U.S. spies and diplomats, causing them to experience Anomalous Health Incidents, or “Havana Syndrome.”