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 Documents obtained by a consortium of journalists show the role of a Moscow university in training operatives in Russian military intelligence related to hacking and election meddling. The files
05/07/26 01:32 PM
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cover several years of activity up to 2025.
Exclusive: Documents obtained by consortium of journalists show role of Moscow university in training operatives in military intelligence
Pjotr Sauer and Shaun Walker
Thu 7 May 2026 00.00 EDT
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Last April, Vladimir Putin visited the campus of Bauman Moscow state technical university, set on the banks of the Yauza River in the east of the city and home to some of the country’s brightest scientific minds.
He toured the campus, met undergraduates and boasted about Moscow’s ambitious plans for space missions to the moon and Mars. “You have everything it takes to be competitive,” Putin told the students.
What the Kremlin readout of Putin’s visit did not mention was a secret faculty inside the university, known simply as Department 4, or “Special Training”.
Here, a select group of students are quietly prepared for careers in the GRU – Russia’s military intelligence directorate, whose operatives have hacked western parliaments, poisoned dissidents on foreign soil and interfered in elections across Europe and the US.
Until now its role in preparing future intelligence operatives has remained largely secret, save among a select group of insiders.
“Sometimes you are first scouted from school, then go to Bauman and join the services … it is part of a pipeline,” said a former senior Russian defence official.
The existence of this path, from one of Russia’s most prestigious institutions directly into its military intelligence apparatus, is revealed for the first time in more than 2,000 internal documents from Bauman, obtained by a consortium of journalists from six outlets: the Guardian, Der Spiegel, Le Monde, the Insider, Delfi and VSquare.
The files, covering several years of activity up to 2025, include course syllabuses, exam records, staff contracts and the career assignments of individual graduates, tracing their path from classroom exercises in hacking and disinformation to postings in some of the most notorious cyber-units in the Russian military intelligence apparatus.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/may/07/revealed-russia-top-secret-spy-school-hacking-western-electoral-interference?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=bluesky&CMP=bsky_gu
Edited (05/07/26 01:33 PM)
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