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Holodomor
A political party in Russia has urged authorities to investigate the “possible involvement of Western intelligence services” in the death of Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin, who died 71 years ago today.
Mar. 5
Putin
While Vladimir Putin’s fifth term as Russia’s president is a foregone conclusion every effort is being made to achieve the maximum margin of victory – and the internet is the key.
Mar. 4
Zaporizhzhia
The substances found in Zaporizhzhia are medicines and not chemical weapons which shows either ignorance or a heavy-handed attempt by Moscow to justify its use of chemicals.
Feb. 27
Kremlin
Russia targets employees of the Federal Air Transport Agency, who removed 59 aircraft from the state inventory and transferred them abroad, after the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
Feb. 12
Russia
Ukrainian intelligence said it “neutralized” a Russian spy network in Ukraine consisting of former and serving intelligence officers in different branches working under the same Russian agent.
Feb. 6
EU
A weekend report by journalists from Latvia, Estonia and Sweden accused a Latvian member of the European Parliament of being a long-term Russian intelligence asset.
Jan. 31
Russia
The FSB said on Friday it had arrested two men in the southern city of Rostov-on-Don on treason charges – crimes that carry up to 20 years in prison.
Jan. 26
Russia
While not confirmed, an anonymously-run Russian Telegram channel claims the body was Alexei Chernykh's, an alleged friend and lover of poisoned Anton Kuznetsov, the former director of Russia Today.
Dec. 28, 2023
Russia
According to reports, Patrushev hatched a plan to assassinate Prigozhin with Putin’s consent, when Wagner’s failed coup proved a step too far.
Dec. 22, 2023
Odesa
A Ukrainian citizen working for the FSB has been convicted of treason and sentenced to 15 years in prison. He had a long history of pro-Russian militancy.
Dec. 19, 2023
Russia
A 2024 calendar published by the Kremlin’s security service to raise funds for its veterans gives an insight into the Russian psyche and has been met with anger and ridicule in equal measure.
Dec. 13, 2023
Kharkiv
Ukraine’s Security Service (SBU) says it eliminated Oleksandr Slisarenko who had held a senior position within the occupation authorities in Kharkiv before fleeing to Belgorod in Russia.
Nov. 24, 2023
Zaporizhzhia
Russia’s Rostov-on-Don military court found a Ukrainian man guilty of acts of “international terrorism,” allegedly on behalf of Kyiv’s intelligence services in the occupied city of Melitopol.
Nov. 24, 2023
Partisans
Another officer is reportedly the ICU after being poisoned last week in Melitopol. The city’s mayor-in-exile has given credit to Ukrainian partisans.
Nov. 22, 2023
Russia
A 55-year-old western Ukrainian man has been imprisoned for conducting spying activities on behalf of Russian intelligence as he used “training” runs as cover.
Nov. 18, 2023
War in Ukraine
A review of open-source material shows that Russia is on course to imprison more individuals for treason and espionage in 2023 than it did in the whole of the past 20 years combined.
Nov. 17, 2023
The cover of the annual FSB calendar greets the new year with a muscle-bound Vladimir Putin and an equally ripped Xi Jinping and its usual images extolling the virtues of Russia’s “supermen.”
Nov. 6