Navalny was close to being freed from prison before his death, says ally Maria Pevchikh says Alexey Navalny was due to be freed in exchange for a Russian FSB assassin imprisoned in Germany. Al Jazeera · Feb 26, 2024
Putin had Navalny killed to thwart prisoner swap, allies claim Russian leader accused of ordering Navalny’s death to stop him being exchanged for FSB hitman serving life sentence in Germany The Guardian - UK · Feb 26, 2024
Alexei Navalny Was Planned To Be Part Of Prisoner Exchange Reports suggest Alexei Navalny was part of a potential prisoner exchange before his death, shedding light on complex international diplomatic negotiations. Top News · Feb 26, 2024
France Blames Russia's FSB For Star Of David Graffiti Campaign France believes that Russia's security service FSB was behind a campaign in which Star of David graffiti were daubed on buildings in and around Paris last autumn, a French source said Friday. International Business Times · Feb 23, 2024
Russia arrests US dual national over alleged $51 Ukrainian charity donation Ksenia Khavana faces up to 20 years in prison for treason amid Kremlin crackdown The Guardian - UK · Feb 20, 2024
Moscow Court Upholds Detention Of US Journalist Gershkovich Until March 30 A Moscow court on Tuesday said jailed US journalist Evan Gershkovich would remain in pre-trial detention until at least March 30, ensuring he will spend at least a year behind bars in a Russian jail. International Business Times · Feb 20, 2024
Russian pilot who defected found dead in Spain, says Ukraine security agency Maksim Kuzminov, who changed sides in secret operation, killed after allegedly moving to Alicante, reports suggest The Guardian - UK · Feb 19, 2024
Chemical burns, poisoning and prison: the persecution of Alexei Navalny Putin critic remained defiant despite facing years of abuse including 2020 attempt on his life The Guardian - UK · Feb 16, 2024
The mysterious, violent and unsolved deaths of Putin’s foes and critics Alexei Navalny is latest of Putin’s opponents to have died over course of Russian leader’s nearly 25 years in power The Guardian - UK · Feb 16, 2024
Russian opposition leader, Alexei Navalny, dies in prison at 47 Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny has died in prison at the age of 47. Navalny was a prominent critic of President Vladimir Putin and had led anti-K... Top News · Feb 16, 2024
Did an arrested Uzbek ‘mafia chieftain’ organise killings of dissidents? Twelve years ago, an Uzbek hitman tried to kill an exiled imam in Sweden. The rest may not be history, just yet. Al Jazeera · Feb 5, 2024
Sex, Spies and Scandal by Alex Grant review – the cold war and an untold part of Britain’s LGBT history This sympathetic telling of the John Vassall affair is strong on the homophobic paranoia that wrecked British lives in the 1950s – and a reminder that the Kremlin’s use of blackmail is nothing new The Guardian - UK · Jan 29, 2024
‘It’s the time you’re meant to be with your family’: the continuing plight of Ukrainian PoWs Families desperate for news of loved ones held by Russia know the longer they are there the harder their recovery will be The Guardian - UK · Dec 21, 2023
Alexei Navalny disappears from jail – another in the long line of Russian dissidents to fall foul of Vladimir Putin There is growing concern about Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny who is reported to have disappeared from the Russian prison colony in which he has been serving a lengthy sentence. Lawyers for the 47-year-old dissident said he had last been in contact two weeks ago. The Conversation · Dec 19, 2023
The Guardian - UK · Dec 19, 2023 Mr Fifty Percent: the former Ukraine mayor doing Putin’s work in Kherson He faced a police investigation over an alleged contract killing, but Volodymyr Saldo is now beyond the reach of Ukrainian law
Al Jazeera · Dec 11, 2023 Russia claims arrest of Ukrainian assassin network Russia’s FSB said it has arrested 18 Ukrainian ‘agents and accomplices’ who plotted assassinations.
The Guardian - UK · Dec 7, 2023 No 10 urged to investigate targeting of MPs and others by Russian spies Cyber-attacks on parliamentarians, civil servants and journalists aimed at meddling in UK politics have been going on for eight years
The Guardian - UK · Dec 7, 2023 Russian Star Blizzard hackers linked to efforts to hamper war crimes investigation Group ‘harvesting sensitive material’ via social media part of FSB unit leaking data to serve Kremlin
The Independent UK · Dec 7, 2023 UK says Russia's intelligence service behind sustained attempts to meddle in British democracy Britain's government says Russia’s intelligence services have targeted high-profile British politicians, civil servants and journalists with cyberespionage and “malicious cyberactivity” as part of sustained attempts to interfere in U.K. political processes
The National (Scotland) · Dec 7, 2023 British politicians hacked 'in service of Russia’s goals of confrontation', MPs told Private conversations of high-profile politicians and civil servants have been compromised by Russia’s principal security service during…
Evening Standard · Dec 7, 2023 Russian spies in 'sustained' cyber attacks on MPs and civil servants Sources say the attacks were to undermine trust in British politics and had been going on since at least 2015
The Independent UK · Dec 7, 2023 Russian spies hack high-profile politicians and former spy chief in ‘grey warfare’ campaign The Russian ambassador to the UK has been summoned to the foreign office to be told ‘these actions have consequences’
The Independent UK · Dec 1, 2023 Ukrainian spy agency stages train explosions on a Russian railroad in Siberia, Ukrainian media say Ukrainian media are reporting that the country's spy agency staged two successive train explosions on a railroad line in Siberia that serves as a key conduit for trade between Russia and China
Al Jazeera · Dec 1, 2023 Moscow accuses Russian-Italian national of Ukrainian-ordered bomb attacks The FSB said that the suspect was trained by special forces of NATO member Latvia to bomb a railway and military base.
The Independent UK · Nov 15, 2023 Russian woman goes on trial in a cafe bombing that killed a prominent military blogger A woman has gone on trial in St. Petersburg in the bombing at a cafe that killed a prominent Russian military blogger after he was given a bust of himself that then exploded