espionage
Yekaterinburg (Russia) (AFP) - US reporter Evan Gershkovich's closed-door espionage trial in Russia began Wednesday, 15 months after he was arrested on charges that he, his newspaper and the White House reject as false and baseless. Hours after the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reporter was brought into court in the Urals city of Yekaterinburg, Washington said it was doing everything it could to secure his release. A senior Russian diplomat urged the United States to "seriously consider the signals" Moscow had sent its way over a possible swap deal. Gershkovich, 32, became the first Western journ...
AFP
Free at long last: Yesterday, news broke that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange would be released from Belmarsh Prison, the maximum security facility he's been kept at in the U.K. for the last five years, and would be free to go home. Assange, who has been at risk of being extradited to the U.S. and prosecuted under the Espionage Act for publishing documents—an activity protected by the First Amendment—that the government says contain classified national security information, will plead guilty to a single felony count and return to his native Australia. Prior to reaching this deal with the U.S....
Reason
An ex-professor at the University of Tartu in Estonia has been sentenced to six years and three months in prison for spying for Russia. On Tuesday, a court in Tallinn found the Russian citizen guilty of acting in the interests of, and on behalf of, a foreign secret service against the Republic of Estonia. According to the security police, he had been spying for the Russian military intelligence service GRU. The academic is said to have collected information on the internal defence and security policy of the Baltic EU and NATO country, as well as related persons and infrastructure. The professo...
DPA Breaking News
Moscow (AFP) - US journalist Evan Gershkovich will go on trial on espionage charges in Russia's Urals city of Yekaterinburg behind closed doors on June 26, the court overseeing the process said on Monday. The Wall Street Journal reporter was arrested in March 2023 while on a reporting trip in Yekaterinburg and has been held in Moscow's notorious Lefortovo prison since. He became the first Western journalist since the Soviet era to be arrested for spying in Russia. Last week, Russia's prosecutor general accused him of working for the CIA and "collecting secret information" about tank maker Ural...
AFP
Moscow (AFP) - Russian prosecutors sent US journalist Evan Gershkovich's case to court on Thursday, paving the way for him to be tried on espionage charges denied by his employer and the White House as a sham. The Wall Street Journal reporter was arrested in March 2023 while on a reporting trip to the Urals city of Yekaterinburg and has been held in Moscow's notorious Lefortovo prison since. In a statement Thursday, Russia's Prosecutor General accused him of working for the CIA and "collecting secret information" about tank maker Uralvagonzavod in the Sverdlovsk region where he was arrested. I...
AFP
A French political expert must remain in custody until August 5 following his arrest in Moscow, the judge in charge decided on Friday, according to Russia's TASS news agency. According to the Russian judiciary, the employee of a Swiss non-governmental organization (NGO) is alleged to have collected information on military and defence technology in Russia. However, he was not accused of espionage; instead authorities said that he had failed to register as a so-called foreign agent when collecting information for years. The man admitted this accusation in court, TASS reported. According to Russi...
DPA Breaking News
A French citizen has been detained in Moscow for alleged espionage, the Russian State Investigative Committee announced on Thursday. The man had tried to obtain information about the military and military technology in Russia, it said, adding that to this end, the Frenchman had visited Moscow several times and met with Russian citizens. A court will decide whether to remand him in custody, it said in a statement. The authorities also published a video of the arrest of the man, who was sitting in an ordinary Moscow café at the time. Details of the case were not disclosed. The relationship betwe...
DPA Breaking News
Russian authorities say they have arrested a French national on suspicion of espionage offences. As reported by state-owned news agency TASS, the Russian Investigative Committee says it has launched a criminal case against the unnamed man, who allegedly "failed to register himself as a foreign agent in compliance with Russian legislation" and "has been gathering information on Russia's military and military-technical activities". "This information, when obtained by foreign sources, can be used against the security of the state," the committee said in a statement. "For these purposes, he repeat...
Euronews (English)
Ursula von der Leyen has reiterated her plan to create a European "shield for democracy" to deal with foreign interference. The European Commission president was in Sweden on Monday to meet with Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson and Deputy PM Ebba Busch at a small-scale forestry north of Stockholm. During the press conference, von der Leyen was asked how Europe can prevent the kind of negative foreign influence seen in the recently revealed Pravfond case. The Commission president's answer was that countries need to "join forces at the European level". The Pravfond case, as originally repo...
Euronews (English)
Poland has arrested 18 people on allegations of pursuing hostile activities or planning sabotage on behalf of Russia and Belarus, the interior minister said on Monday. The allegations including plans to assassinate Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Ten of those arrested since December were directly involved in planning various forms of sabotage across Poland, Interior Minister Tomasz Siemoniak told a news conference. Polish authorities have linked some recent arsons or attempted arsons to Russian-sponsored agents. Polish, Belarusian and Ukrainian nationals are among those arrested in re...
Euronews (English)
閲覧を続けるには、ノアドット株式会社が「プライバシーポリシー」に定める「アクセスデータ」を取得することを含む「nor.利用規約」に同意する必要があります。
「これは何?」という方はこちら