Event 833

{
  "category": "Uncategorized",
  "confidence": "Low",
  "confidence_rationale": "Report directly references an independent and widely cited investigative platform, public statements from Lithuanian security authorities, and provides timelines and identities. Presence of direct quotes and official confirmation further support the event’s credibility.",
  "country": "Lithuania",
  "defense_prep": {},
  "description": "Russian independent media project RuPEP claims a staff member at the Russian Embassy in Vilnius is an officer of Russia’s FSB intelligence service. The identified individual has been working at the embassy since 2023 and previously served with the FSB. Lithuanian authorities are aware of his affiliation and do not currently assess him as a threat to national security.",
  "event_time_utc": "2025-04-17T12:00:00Z",
  "evidence": [
    "RuPEP online database identifies a Russian Embassy worker in Vilnius as an FSB officer.",
    "Lithuanian State Security Department (VSD) confirms knowledge of the individual and his official affiliation, but sees no current threat.",
    "Incident involving this individual and a Belarusian blogger documented as recent precedent for his public activity."
  ],
  "evidence_quotes": [
    "A member of staff at the Russian Embassy in Vilnius is also an officer at the Russian intelligence service, the FSB, according to information published by RuPEP, an online database of public officials compiled by independent Russian media.",
    "According to this file, Dmitry Sergeyevich Kurguz has been working at the Vilnius embassy since 2023 and has been a member of the Federal Security Service (FSB), the successor to the Soviet-era KGB, since 2012.",
    "\"The official affiliation of [Kurguz] and the circumstances of his residency at the Russian Embassy in Lithuania are known to the VSD and are not currently assessed as a threat to national security,\" Lithuania’s intelligence service, the State Security Department (VSD), told LRT in a written comment."
  ],
  "evidence_urls": [
    "https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2539411/russian-media-identifies-embassy-worker-in-vilnius-as-fsb-officer"
  ],
  "extra": {
    "category_raw": "Fsb Activity",
    "extra": {
      "extra": {
        "extra": {
          "evidence": [
            "RuPEP online database identifies a Russian Embassy worker in Vilnius as an FSB officer.",
            "Lithuanian State Security Department (VSD) confirms knowledge of the individual and his official affiliation, but sees no current threat.",
            "Incident involving this individual and a Belarusian blogger documented as recent precedent for his public activity."
          ]
        }
      }
    }
  },
  "fifth_column_countries": [
    "LT"
  ],
  "follow_up_by_country": [],
  "headline": "Russian media identifies embassy worker in Vilnius as FSB officer",
  "location_text": "Vilnius",
  "media_assets": [
    {
      "description": "Screenshot capture",
      "type": "screenshot",
      "url": "/media/event_833_1763940026_6681ad78.jpg"
    }
  ],
  "notes": "??FSB officer Dmitry Kurguz has been posted in ??Vilnius since 2023.",
  "schema_version": "v1",
  "screenshot_count": 1,
  "sources": [
    "https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2539411/russian-media-identifies-embassy-worker-in-vilnius-as-fsb-officer"
  ],
  "summary_short": "Russian media and databases identify a Russian Embassy worker in Vilnius as a serving FSB officer. Lithuania’s security service confirms awareness but sees no current threat.",
  "url": "https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2539411/russian-media-identifies-embassy-worker-in-vilnius-as-fsb-officer"
}

{
  "5th Column of Russians Inside (which countries)": "LT",
  "Attack Type": "FSB Activity",
  "Borders Including Sea, Air,  Violation or Sabotage (which countries)": "",
  "Continuous? (e.g. Jammers)": "",
  "Country (FI;EE;LV;LT;PL;BSR;Air)\nSeparated by Semicolon": "LT",
  "Date": "17-Apr-25",
  "Defense Prep Event (FI-EE-LV-LT-PL)": "",
  "Defense Prep Event (FI-EE-LV-LT-PL) REF LINK": "",
  "Follow-Up Link?  (FI,EE,LV,LT,PL, BSR, Air)": "",
  "Follow-Up NOTES": "",
  "Follow-Up incl. Investigation, Prosecution?  (FI,EE,LV,LT,PL, BSR, Air)": "",
  "Latitude, Longitude (WGS84, Decimal Degrees)": "",
  "NOTES": "??FSB officer Dmitry Kurguz has been posted in ??Vilnius since 2023.",
  "Political Disruptions w/ Laws to Favor Kremlin (which countries)": "",
  "Russian-Belarus Terrorist Event (FI-EE-LV-LT-PL)": "Russian embassy staffer in ??Vilnius identified as FSB officer.??",
  "Russian-Belarus Terrorist Event (FI-EE-LV-LT-PL) REF LINK": "https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2539411/russian-media-identifies-embassy-worker-in-vilnius-as-fsb-officer",
  "Screen Snapshot": "",
  "Screen Snapshots": "",
  "Type Dropdown": "",
  "Where?\n(Air, Land, Sea)": ""
}