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119 storiesSweden extradites Russian citizen to US over alleged electronics export scheme
Sweden extradited 52-year-old Russian citizen Aleksandr Suvorov (Александр Суворов) to the United States on October 15, according to reports citing the US Justice Department. He faces three charges related to alleged illegal exports of US m…
Kazakh court arrests Russian rapper Navai for two months in drug smuggling case
A court in Kazakhstan's Zhambyl Region arrested Russian rapper Navai (Navai Bakirov, Наваи Бакиров) for two months on 15 October in a drug smuggling case. Police said he was detained on 13 October at the Korday border checkpoint as he enter…
Trump cancels broadcast of Fort Hood gunman's execution; Pentagon backs decision
US President Donald Trump said Nidal Hasan's execution by firing squad would not be broadcast live, while the execution remains scheduled for December 3. The Pentagon said Pete Hegseth supported the decision and had discussed it with Trump …
Russian outlets report search at Novaya Gazeta editor's home
Russian outlets reported on October 15 that investigators were searching the home of Novaya Gazeta editor-in-chief Sergei Sokolov (Сергей Соколов). Reports linked the search to a criminal investigation opened in the spring, but the precise …
FBI arrests OpenAI employee over suspected secret recording of executive meetings
The FBI arrested OpenAI employee Abdulrahman Alfozan on October 9 on suspicion of installing a hidden audio recorder in a company conference room, Russian outlets report. OpenAI said it had found no evidence of access to user data, software…
Moscow court puts former trade academy rector under house arrest in bribery case
A Moscow court placed former Russian Foreign Trade Academy rector Sergei Sinelnikov-Murylev under house arrest on a charge of receiving a bribe on an especially large scale. Reports disagree on the length of a suspended prison sentence he r…
Hamburg court holds first Nord Stream sabotage hearing; defendant contests charges
A Hamburg court held its first hearing on October 14 in the case against Ukrainian citizen Sergei Kuznetsov (Сергей Кузнецов) over the 2022 Nord Stream pipeline explosions. His defence contests the allegations, and the next hearing is sched…
Germany detains ex-BND chief Hanning on suspicion of espionage
August Hanning, who headed Germany's Federal Intelligence Service (BND) from 1998 to 2005, has been detained on suspicion of espionage, obtaining state secrets and attempted high treason, according to German and Russian outlets. His former …
Russia detains Hokkaido Shimbun journalist on espionage allegations
Russia's FSB said a Japanese Hokkaido Shimbun correspondent was detained in Sakhalin and transferred to Moscow in an espionage case. Russian outlets identified the journalist as Yuki Imai (Юки Имаи); Kommersant reported that a Moscow court …
Former Sochi mayor Kopaygorodsky sentenced to 15 years in strict-regime colony
A Moscow court sentenced former Sochi mayor Alexey Kopaygorodsky to 15 years in a strict-regime penal colony, fined him 500 million rubles and stripped him of a state award in a corruption case. His wife, Yanina Kopaygorodskaya, was also co…
CNN: US to charge Maduro and wife over alleged torture of detained Americans
New York prosecutors are preparing new charges against Nicolas Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores over the alleged torture of Americans held in Venezuelan prisons, CNN reported citing sources, according to Russian outlets. Interfax, citing CN…
Moscow court cuts blogger Ayaz Shabutdinov's fraud sentence to six years
The Moscow City Court's appeals instance reduced blogger and business coach Ayaz Shabutdinov's sentence by one year, from seven years to six years in a general-regime colony, Kommersant and vc.ru reported. He was convicted of fraud in Octob…
Moscow court orders in absentia arrest of journalist Andrei Loshak in terrorism case
A Moscow court on 29 September ordered the in absentia arrest of journalist and documentary filmmaker Andrei Loshak in a case of justifying terrorism, according to court records and state agencies. He has also been placed on a wanted list, …
FSB detains two Zabaykalsky Krai residents over alleged State Duma election plots
Russia's FSB said it detained two Russian citizens in Zabaykalsky Krai who, it alleges, were preparing provocations during the State Duma elections on the orders of Ukrainian special services. According to the FSB, a Krasnokamensk man was t…
FSB: 39 people in 17 Russian regions jailed for 10 to 26 years over arson and sabotage
Russian courts have sentenced 39 people from 17 regions to prison terms of 10 to 26 years for setting fire to aircraft, transport and communications facilities and planning sabotage on railway infrastructure on the instructions of Ukrainian…
Moscow court rules 13 Baltic nationalists, five groups Nazi accomplices
Moscow's Tverskoy District Court ruled that 13 Baltic nationalists and five organisations were accomplices of Nazi Germany in war crimes and crimes against humanity committed against Soviet people during the Great Patriotic War. The Prosecu…
Latvian court jails woman for six years over €43 transfer for Russian army equipment
Riga City Court sentenced Polina Kamleva, a resident of Rezekne, to six years in prison for financing an armed conflict, Meduza reported, citing Delfi. Investigators say she arranged a transfer of about 43 euros toward an electronic warfare…
Russia drops “fake army news” case against hospice founder Moniava
Russia's Investigative Committee has closed the criminal case against Lida Moniava, founder of the Dom s Mayakom children's hospice and charity fund, for lack of corpus delicti, her lawyer and support group said on 6 October. She had been c…
US inmate Christa Pike regains consciousness after failed Tennessee execution
Christa Pike, a 50-year-old inmate in Tennessee, has regained consciousness and can speak after surviving a failed execution attempt, her lawyers said, according to media reports cited by Russian outlets. She was given two doses of pentobar…
Moscow court refuses house arrest for investigator in Lerchek jewellery case
Moscow's Basmanny court rejected a request to place investigator Nikita Tulupov (Никита Тулупов) under house arrest in the case concerning missing jewellery seized from blogger Lerchek. Vedomosti reported that Tulupov, accused of exceeding …