A Scotsman who worked as a military instructor in Ukraine but was recruited to work for Russian intelligence has been sentenced to eight and a half years in prison, the BBC reports. Ross David Cutmore, from Dunfermline, Fife, admitted passing "unauthorized information" about the location of...
A Moscow court sentenced a former Russian diplomat to 12 years in a maximum-security prison colony for selling secrets to American intelligence during a mission to the United States, Reuters reported. On December 26, Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) announced that Arseny Konovalov, born in 1987, had been recognized…
The US Department of Justice reports that US citizens and Russian intelligence officials are accused of conspiring to use Americans as illegal agents of the Russian government. The defendants tried to sow discord, spread pro-Russian propaganda and interfere in US elections. Four US citizens...
Hector Alejandro Cabrera Fuentes, a famous scientist, a citizen of Mexico and a resident of Singapore, led a double game and a double life on two continents and with two families - Mexican and Russian, reports the BBC. He was arrested in February 2020 at the Miami airport...
Anatoly Lazarev, 68, who worked for the Russian space corporation Roskosmos, fled extortion and persecution from the Russian FSB to Hungary seeking asylum. But the court rejected his asylum applications, according to the BBC. Anatoly Lazarev, 68, shows off his right hand to show…
The results of a joint investigation by Bellingcat, The Insider and CNN with the participation of Der Spiegel showed that the assassination attempt on Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny in Tomsk was the work of a group of FSB operatives. Meduza writes about this. The authors of the investigation were able to identify these eight employees...
British police said that the probable perpetrator of the assassination attempt on the Russian spy-defector Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia was an agent of the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) under the codename "Gordon". He allegedly led a group of six people that organized and carried out the assassination attempt, reports ...
On December 15, the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) announced the suppression of the activities of a group of supporters of the terrorist organization "Islamic State", who on December 16 planned to commit terrorist acts by self-detonating in crowded places. The criminals were led from abroad through the Telegram messenger, Meduza writes. During the operation, 7 ...
The Federal Bureau of Investigation is looking for Russian citizen Igor Sushchin on suspicion of organizing the Yahoo hack, as a result of which the data of 500 million users of this network were stolen. According to the investigation, Sushchin is an officer of the Federal Security Service of Russia, but his rank is unknown. FROM…
The Ministry of Telecom and Mass Communications of the Russian Federation has compiled a list of data that companies included in the register of organizers of information distributors will have to provide for operational-search activities. The TV channel Dozhd reports this. According to the draft order, Internet companies will have to collect and store user pseudonyms, their real names, dates of birth, identifiers ...