Meet Russian Spy Boss Sergey Naryshkin
The SVR chief pegs his rise to a chance meeting with Putin in the bowels of the KGB’s Leningrad Office
On a cool October day in Moscow in 2017, Sergey Naryshkin, the head of the SVR, Russia’s foreign intelligence service, stepped up to the microphone at an outdoor ceremony to unveil a statue honoring a notable predecessor.
"The name of Pavel Fitin is returning to our history," Naryshkin said of the man who ran the Soviet Union's foreign spying apparatus…
