The collapse of the Soviet Union in the early 1990’s allowed the world to watch a series of countries to break away from Russia; one nation at a time into 15 separate countries. With the breaking up of the Soviet Union, this impacted the Russian’s intelligence capabilities due to the losses of key strategic intelligence bases that were stationed within the countries that broke away. The losses of strategically placed intelligence collection bases required Russia to refocus their collection requirements and priorities. Russia’s ability to collect foreign intelligence has significantly decreased since the fall of the Soviet Union, although its numbers have not decreased and also that Russia’s primary collection priority is obtaining regional
