The Investigative Committee of Russia reported the detention of three more members of the gang of Shamil Basayev and Amir Khattab. According to the agency, they were detained in Ingushetia, Bashkortostan, and Tatarstan with the assistance of the FSB, the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and territorial units of the Investigative Committee.

#TheSecondChechenWar #Ingushetia #scr #terrorism #FSB #Khattab #ShamilBasaev

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The Wall Street Journal journalist Evan Gershkovich writes in the book «This Damned Beautiful Land» that Vadim Krasikov, whom Germany handed over to Russia during the prisoner exchange in August 2024, was captured a year later on cameras at the Chkalovsky airfield near Moscow and behind the wheel of a BMW X6 in Moscow. Gershkovich suggests that this may indicate Krasikov’s return to work for the intelligence services.

#VadimKrasikov #VladimirPutin #Gru #FSB #Chkalovsky #EvanGershkovich

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On Monday, the book by American journalist Evan Gershkovich, This Cursed Beautiful Land, appeared in U.S. bookstores. In it, the former Moscow correspondent for The Wall Street Journal рассказывает how, as a result of a provocation, he ended up as a hostage of the FSB, was sentenced to 16 years on espionage charges, and was released only thanks to an international prisoner exchange. The circumstances of this story are strikingly reminiscent of a Russian-American spy scandal from 40 years ago, which was resolved thanks to the intervention of Gorbachev and Reagan.

#documentaryprose #journalists #historyoftheSovietspecialservices #KGBoftheUSSR #Putin #repressions #Russia #securityforces #USA #FSB #cia #EvanGershkovich

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The 2nd Eastern District Military Court sentenced 51-year-old resident of Zabaykalsky Krai, Ekaterina Malovechkina, to 24 years in a general-regime penal colony and two fines totaling 350,000 rubles. The court found her guilty of treason, participation in a terrorist organization, undergoing training in sabotage activities, sabotage, illegal manufacture and possession of explosive devices, and laundering criminal money.

#Railway #Transbaikalregion #FreedomofRussiaLegion #Russiancourts #FSB

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В книге «Эта проклятая прекрасная земля» (This Cursed Beautiful Land), которая поступила в продажу 29 сентября, корреспондент The Wall Street Journal Эван Гершкович рассказал о разговоре со следователем ФСБ Дмитрием Сапунковым. По его словам, следователь сказал, что если бы у следствия не было достаточных доказательств, его бы «просто отравили».

#TheWallStreetJournal #Yekaterinburg #Russia #FSB #cia #EvanGershkovich #Poisons

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The Supreme Court of Komi on September 16 sentenced philosopher Nikolai Zyuzev to seven years in a high-security penal colony and another year of restricted freedom under the article on state treason. According to T-invariant, the case is linked to his online university project for Finno-Ugric youth and an initiative on education for the indigenous peoples of Russia.

#treason #Komi #Indigenouspeoples #NikolayZyuzev #repressions #Russia #FSB

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The FSB accused the United Kingdom of creating a «controlled political project» involving Russian emigrants who support Ukraine, and said that their fates are «sealed». In the same statement, the security service said it had opened a case against Russian citizen Ksenia Maksimova, who lives in Britain.

#AntiWarCommitteeofRussia #UnitedKingdom #WarinUkraine #Russianemigration #FBK #FSB

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The domestic politics bloc of the presidential administration did not know about the planned detention and arrest of political scientist Alexander Kynev in a drug case, Vyorstka writes, citing four interlocutors close to the Kremlin. According to the publication, the leadership of New People was also not warned about the prosecution.

#AlexanderKynev #AP #vote #Russia #SergeyKiriyenko #FSB

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At least 29 of the 78 diplomatic employees of the Russian embassy in Serbia, or 37.2%, may be linked to the security services, according to data from the Rupep.org database analyzed by «Agentstvo». The Russian embassy and trade mission in Serbia employ 78 people; in Bulgaria, with a population of 6.7 million versus 6.6 million in Serbia, there are 18 Russian diplomats.

#Gru #RussianMinistryofDefense #EmbassyofRussiainSerbia #SVR #FSB #Croatia

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The Moscow City Court left unchanged the sentence for former senior RZD employees Alexey Savchenko, Oleg Kirillov, Denis Streltsov, and Denis Andreev. They were convicted of taking a bribe on an especially large scale by a group of persons acting in prior conspiracy.

#BasmannyDistrictCourt #business #bribe #lifeinRussia #corruption #RussianRailways #FSB

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The Anti-Corruption Foundation claims that CEC head Ella Pamfilova received a 237 m² apartment in central Moscow free of charge from the state, after which the property was registered in the name of her 24-year-old granddaughter, Irina Kezina.

#Moscow #FBK #FSB #fso #cyc #EllaPamfilova

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In the U.S., Oxygen Forensics CEO Lee Reiber and CTO Oleg Davydov were detained in a case over concealing that the company was run by Russian citizens and that its software was developed in Russia. A California court froze the company’s accounts and more than 50 domains belonging to it.

#ice #OxygenForensics #LeeReiber #OlegDavydov #pentagon #FSB

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In the U.S., Oxygen Forensics CEO Lee Raiber and co-founder and CTO Oleg Davydov were detained. American prosecutors believe the software supplier for law enforcement concealed Russian owners and software development in Russia.

#OxygenForensics #Davydov #InteriorMinistry #Reiber #USA #FSB

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The FSB announced the detention of a man born in 1993, who is suspected of preparing a terrorist attack against a high-ranking Russian official. According to the security service, the detainee was sent to a pretrial detention center.

#Moscow #Moscowregion #RIANews #SK #terrorism #FSB

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The Supreme Court of the self-proclaimed LPR, created by the Russian authorities, sentenced 62-year-old Russian Sergey Ilechko to 12 years and 2 months in a maximum-security penal colony in a state treason case.

#SupremeCourtoftheLPR #treason #GUR #sbu #SergeyIlechko #FSB

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At the Shuya checkpoint in the Suoyarvi district of Karelia, two-way checks were introduced on September 19. The barriers are closed and open only after vehicles are inspected.

#leavingRussia #Karelia #Russia #securityforces #FSB #Shuya

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The administrations of the Slantsy and Kingisepp districts of Leningrad Oblast reported new FSB restrictions in the border zone. In Estonia, they said the threat assessment has not changed and that «there is no danger from that side».

#KingiseppDistrict #Leningradregion #BorderDirectorateoftheFSB #SlantsyDistrict #FSB #Estonia

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The CEO of the local division of the Russian IT corporation ITG, German Leontiev, was detained in the Netherlands. After that, ITG announced that it would withdraw infrastructure from the Netherlands, the United States, and Canada and scale back its presence in these countries.

#ITG #HermanLeontiev #DmitryGachko #Netherlands #Russia #SORM #specialservices #technology #FSB

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UN Special Rapporteur on human rights in Russia Mariana Katsarova presented a report on September 21 on Russia’s transnational repression against its own citizens and other people abroad who are unwelcome to the Kremlin. According to the report, in the three years since the start of the war, the number of documented cases of such persecution has increased eightfold and reached nearly 400.

#Interpol #Kazakhstan #UN #Russia #FSB

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Actress Olga Shchekina was taken to Donetsk after leaving the special detention facility in Rostov, where police drew up a report against her for violating curfew. At the hearing on September 18, the court fined her 1,000 rubles instead of placing her under administrative arrest.

#astra #WarinUkraine #Donbass #Donetsk #OccupationofUkraine #FSB

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