NATO plans to expel from its headquarters in Brussels half of Russian diplomats and officials, about 45 suspected of espionage, in order to limit Moscow's ability to gather information amid growing tensions between the Kremlin and the West over the Ukraine crisis. ...
A former US government official has been charged with attempting a hacker attack to steal information on nuclear weapons from the US Department of Energy. Charles Eccleston is accused of intent to receive payment for transferring classified information to a foreign government. During the special operation, the FBI agents ...
A Russian citizen was arrested in Lithuania on suspicion of espionage. This was reported on Monday, March 4, on the official website of the Lithuanian Prosecutor General's Office. According to the agency, a Russian working for the FSB was detained on April 29. The next day, the Vilnius Regional Court concluded him ...
A year ago, NATO cut cooperation with Russia as punishment for that country's intervention in Ukraine, The New York Times writes. However, the Russian delegation at NATO headquarters in Brussels still employs more than 50 employees - more than in the representative offices of some...
The Czech security service suspected three Russian diplomats working in Prague of espionage, according to Czech media, citing sources in the country's government. Russian authorities are not commenting on the message. According to this information, two suspects are permanent employees of the Russian embassy in Prague, and ...
Former US intelligence officer Edward Snowden wants to return to his homeland, lawyers are doing everything possible for this, said lawyer Anatoly Kucherena representing his interests. “We are doing everything possible to resolve this issue,” Kucherena said at a press conference on Tuesday. Answering the question whether Snowden wants to return to the United States, Kucherena replied:...
The Prosecutor's Office of the Southern District of New York has formally charged the citizen of the Russian Federation Yevgeny Buryakov, reports on Tuesday, February 10, TASS, citing the press service of the department. The Russian is charged with "working in the United States as an agent of the Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) under an unofficial cover." The same accusation ...
A federal judge sentenced a former government nuclear scientist to 60 months in prison for attempting to pass on classified information about nuclear weapons to Venezuelan officials. Pedro Mascheroni, 79, previously worked at Los Alamos National Laboratory. Scientist was born in Argentina. An official from Venezuela ...