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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...
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Russian President Vladimir Putin has blasted an agreement by G7 leaders to use frozen Russian assets to help Ukraine as "theft" and promised retaliation. He said Western powers were still trying to "create at least some legal basis" for the decision taken on Thursday. "But despite all the fuss theft will remain theft. It will not go unpunished," he said in a speech at the Foreign Ministry in Moscow, according to the TASS news agency. The G7 summit began on Thursday in southern Italy with a deal to lend Ukraine $50 billion using the interest generated from frozen Russian state assets. The money...
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Former Russian president Dmitry Medvedev has expressed some biting comments following the results of the European elections, calling for the resignation of German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and French President Emmanuel Macron. "[The results] come as a reflection of your inept policy of providing support to the [B]andera authorities in ... Ukraine at the cost of your own citizens, your idiotic economic and migration policy!" Medvedev posted on the social media platform X on Monday. Stepan Bandera was a contentious Ukrainian nationalist, whose name is frequently used by Moscow to discredit Kiev's p...
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Concerns are rising in Europe over Russian interference in elections this week to the European Parliament amid reports of cyberattacks, internet platforms disseminating propaganda and even payments to European politicians. Russia has been engaging in illegitimate activity for years through disinformation campaigns and fake news sites, according to Lea Frühwirth of the Berlin-based Center for Monitoring, Analysis and Strategy (CeMAS). She predicted that the elections, being held from Thursday to Sunday, would be a target for this sort of activity, with typical examples being the discrediting of...
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The European Council President Chares Michel has condemned Russia's "attrocious" airstrike on a DIY store in Kharkiv, Ukraine. "The Russian strike on a Kharkiv supermarket is atrocious," Michel said on X. While Michel mentions a supermarket, the site has been described as the "Epicentr hypermarket" in reporting, possibly leading to confusion. "Russia’s efforts to terrorize Ukrainian civilians as part of its war of aggression against Ukraine are criminal," he added. "Together, we can stop Russia’s brutal attacks. We need to urgently advance on a comprehensive air defence solution for Ukraine."
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European Commission and NATO officials on Wednesday criticized Georgia's adoption of a law requiring foreign-funded organizations to register as "foreign agents." "The spirit and content of the law are not in line with EU core norms and values," said a statement by EU foreign affairs chief Josep Borrell and Enlargement Commissioner Oliver Varhelyi. On Tuesday, Georgia's parliament passed the controversial legislation despite angry protests in Tbilisi and urging by the European Union and the United States not to adopt it. Thousands of people once again took to the streets of the capital on Tues...
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European Commission and NATO officials on Wednesday criticized Georgia's adoption of a law requiring foreign-funded organizations to register as "foreign agents." "The spirit and content of the law are not in line with EU core norms and values," said a statement by EU foreign affairs chief Josep Borrell and Enlargement Commissioner Oliver Varhelyi. On Tuesday, Georgia's parliament passed the controversial legislation despite angry protests in Tbilisi and urging by the EU and the United States not to adopt it. Thousands of people once again took to the streets of the capital on Tuesday evening....
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Two businesspeople from western and southern Germany stand trial before the Higher Regional Court in Stuttgart starting Friday charged with illegally delivering electronic parts for the use in drones to Russia. The businesspeoples' customer in Russia is said to have produced military equipment and accessories, including the Orlan-10 drone used by the Russian armed forces in Ukraine. According to the indictment, the electrical components supplied are a common component of this type of drone and are covered by the European Union's Russia embargo. A managing director of two companies in Saarland ...
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France says it will not invite Russian President Vladimir Putin to the commemoration of the 80th anniversary of the landing of Allied troops in Normandy in the Second World War at the beginning of June. However, Russia will be invited to send a representative. "The Russian Federation has been waging a war of aggression against Ukraine for more than two years, which France condemns in the strongest terms," the state organizers of the D-Day commemoration announced on Wednesday. "In view of these circumstances, President Putin will not be invited to take part in the commemorations of the Normandy...
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