An elite Federal Security Service (FSB) unit has actually spearheaded a sweeping project of wartime security, intimidation and arrests of Russians and immigrants in the middle of heightened tensions with the West, the Wall Street Journal reported Friday.The FSB's Department for Counterintelligence Operations (DKRO), formerly recognized by WSJ as leading the
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A Ukrainian court on Friday sentenced a woman to 14 years in jail for working with Russian intelligence to write fake reports validating Moscow's invasion.Prosecutors declared the female got a task from Russian handlers to write a letter to be used by Russia's envoy at the United Nations. The defendant wrote that the people of
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Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov spearheaded efforts to ensure previous Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's safe escape from Syria as Damascus fell to Islamist rebels, Reuters reported Friday, citing confidential Russian, local and Western security sources.Lavrov was stated to have actually held talks with Turkey and Qatar in Doha over the weekend,
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President Vladimir Putinsigned a law on Friday permitting executive and law enforcement authorities in the Russian-occupied regions of Ukraine to keep information about their work from the public.Russia's Justice Ministry, which drafted the expense, argued that the new constraints were required due to problems with guaranteeing the security of the a
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Russian Sports Minister Mikhail Degtyaryov was named the nation's brand-new Olympics chief, authorities revealed Friday.Degtyaryov, a member of the conservative Liberal Democratic Party, was elected head of the Russian Olympic Committee after its previous president Stanislav Pozdnyakov suddenly resigned in October.Russian sport has dealt with a myriad of
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Russian law enforcement authorities ended an investigation into animal cruelty almost a year after the death of an animal feline wrongly thrown from a train sparked a nationwide protest, media reported Friday.The cat, Twix, got across the country attention after he was discovered dead, most likely from frostbite, in freezing conditions northeast of Moscow on Jan. 11. Inv
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