On December 29, 2016, the US authorities announced that they would give 35 Russian diplomats just 72 hours to leave the States. The Obama administration also seized two estates on the east coast, owned by the Russian government. The public justification for the removal and closure of territories by the Obama administration was ...
Former National Security Agency employee Edward Snowden, who leaked classified information about the agency's work and surveillance of people to the media, wrote a memoir, and also gave an interview in which he announced his readiness to return to the United States from Russia, where he now lives. ...
Who is Oleg Smolenkov, what did he do for the United States and why, after escaping from Russia, he did not change his name and openly lived in the States. The BBC has found out the details of the American life of the Russian ex-official. Late Monday evening, September 9, the family of a former Russian ...
On a previously unknown secret mission in 2017, the United States recalled a spy from Russia to avoid exposing him, sources in the Trump administration told CNN. The seizure came at a time of great concern in the intelligence community about Trump's misuse of intelligence ...
On August 29, 1949, the USSR officially became the world's second "nuclear power" after testing the RDS-1 plutonium bomb. These tests took the West by surprise: as follows from CIA documents, American intelligence officers believed that the Soviet Union would be able to create its own atomic bomb...
Petty Officer (Petty Officer 2nd Class) of the US Navy Stephen Kellogg admitted to violating the provisions of the Espionage Act and was sentenced by the court to three years in prison, writes Voice of America. According to the US Navy's Investigation Department, Kellogg confessed that ...
Russian woman Maria Butina is accused of conspiracy in the interests of Russia in the United States. She tried to build an unofficial channel of communication between countries in the interests of the Russian side. The state prosecution believes that she acted on instructions from the Russian authorities. However, from Butina's correspondence and documents prepared by her ...
The US federal prosecutor's office supported Maria Butina's request to the court to expel her to Russia after determining the sentence, which is expected to be no more than the time she had already spent in custody during the investigation. This follows from the court documents released on Friday. ...
The sanctions have already been approved by the Ministry of Finance and the State Department, according to agency sources. Restrictive measures will affect the Russian banking sector. The White House received a package of new sanctions against Russia in connection with the poisoning of former Russian intelligence officer Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia in Britain in ...
Russian citizen Maria Butina, arrested in Washington, pleaded guilty to one of the charges, which concerns conspiracy to violate the laws on foreign agents in the United States. Butina, standing in front of the judge in the presence of her lawyer Robert Driscoll, under oath agreed to join ...