...I mean...

https://www.khodorkovsky.com/officers-of-russia/

...the retraction mentioned herein did not happen in realtime. Conversely, I don't care if it happened then or now as long as it sticks.

it would appear that we have some common interests with Russia

My friend, you must understand history.

Until de-Stalinization, the "Soviet" union was a chekist state devoted to attacking the Left globally. Lenin - who attacked a socialist-inclusive revolution to defend and implement, in his words, capitalism - often gets a pass outside Krondstadt. Senator McCarthy, however, is a pretty textbook example of Leninist "democratic centralism." One can essentially guarantee that absolutely no actual agents were condemned while honest revolutionaries in good conscience, well...

Most folks shift the blame to Stalin outside Krondstadt, with his much more documented alliances with Franco and Hitler to attack left insurgence, acting directly in the Ukraine. While more understated, Lenin's "democratic" centralism was... far bloodier... in suppressing a previously strong Left.

This...

https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/crime/illegal-gingerbread-house-in-mount-baker-snoqualmie-forest-stocked-with-food-bedding-and-child-porn/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Fourier

...pertains to us very directly. The Brezhnev years worked out quite well for us, incidentally, as well as the formerly persecuted. The fall of the USSR, on the other hand - against the wishes of its populace - ensured that privatization formalized ownership of the state by the KGB alone.

It is not so implausible that a few among these would rather go back to their old habits, and not do the Brezhnev "stop killing the Left" thing. Some did, after all, take action to bring down and take over their former state.

The first document directly links a party, probably in the KGB as "oligarch" is basically synonymous, to both some interference in central america I have an interest in, and cocaine trafficking I have an interest in.

We may still have common interest with russia; the first document also heavily implies that this soon-to-be-named party is directly planning to destroy Putin. Assuming this is concurrent with the network entire, any attack on us, anywhere in the world, is a direct attack on the Russian Head of State.

It's... evidencibly coming from outside the anglosphere, rough and corrupt as things are.