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Anatoliy Baronin, appointed to the position of Acting Rector of the Foreign Intelligence Service Institute of Ukraine, is reforming the school in accordance with NATO standards, Ukraine’s Foreign Intelligence Service (FIS) said on Thursday.

“Baronin’s main task is to implement the reform of the educational institution in accordance with NATO standards, turning it from an inefficient structure, which only eats budget funds, into a modern specialized educational institution of postgraduate education for the training of specialists in the best practices of the CIA, MI 6 and MOSSAD,” FIS said in a statement.

Baronin joined the Service on November 13, 2018 as the lead adviser on the analytical work of the Foreign Intelligence Service head, and from February 12, 2019, he was entrusted with the duties heading the Foreign Intelligence Service Institute.

“Baronin is the grandson of the legendary Ukrainian intelligence officer Anatoliy Viktorovych Baronin. He is a brilliant analyst who, from the beginning of Russian aggression on volunteer principles, worked to counteract the hybrid aggression of the Kremlin,” the FIS said.