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Irina Borogan is a Russian investigative journalist in exile who serves as a Research Fellow at King's College London, based in the Department of War Studies within the Faculty of Social Science & Public Policy. She is affiliated with the King's Centre for the Study of Intelligence, which provides a platform for sharing research and ideas in intelligence studies. Her work focuses on Russian security services, internet censorship, and cyber issues, with particular emphasis on the Kremlin's security apparatus and its evolution under Putin.
Her research interests span Security services, Internet censorship, Cyber, Russian intelligence, Geopolitics, and Digital governance. Borogan has documented the Kremlin's campaign to gain control of civil society and strengthen police services under the pretext of fighting extremism. She has extensively chronicled the role of Russian intelligence and security agencies in the war in Ukraine, analyzing how the conflict has transformed Russian spycraft and security operations both domestically and internationally.
- Author of The New Nobility: The Restoration of Russia's Security State and the Enduring Legacy of the KGB (2010)
- Author of The Red Web: The Struggle Between Russia's Digital Dictators and the New Online Revolutionaries (2015)
- Author of The Compatriots: The Russian Exiles Who Fought Against the Kremlin (2019, 2022)
Her recent publications demonstrate consistent focus on Russian security services' adaptation to the Ukraine conflict, Kremlin cyber strategies, and the evolving relationship between the Russian state and its intelligence apparatus. Borogan's work shows increasing attention to the transnational dimensions of Russian security operations, including cyber imperialism, religious influence campaigns, and the use of private military companies as instruments of state power.
