William “Bill” Browder is an American born, naturalized British financier who has been convicted of fraud in Russia twice. He was detained in Geneva just recently while on the run from the Russian FSB.
A Ukrainian agent was dramatically arrested by the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) in the southern Russian city of Sudak. He was caught trying to damage local power-lines, something Ukrainian terrorists had previously done in northern Crimea.
Gennadiy Limeshko issued a guilty plea and explained his dangerous actions in the following way,
“I received 5,000 [$195] hryvnia for the task. On August 12, after an attempt to place a charge, I was detained by the Russian FSB officers”.
Sputnik reports,
Originally appeared at RussiaFed.com
ST. PETERSBURG (Sputnik) – Border guard ships from Russia, Estonia and Finland on Tuesday held a joint sea rescue training in Russian territorial waters on the Gulf of Finland, the press-service of Russia’s Federal Security Service’s (FSB) border directorate in St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region said on Wednesday.
Originally appeared at RussiaFeed.com
Vladimir Putin has signed a bill banning the use of any technology or software that allows access to websites officially blocked on Russian territory such as web anonymizers.
The sponsors of the bill were lawmakers from three Russian parliamentary caucuses – the majority party United Russia, the Communist Party, and the center-left opposition Fair Russia.
Christopher Jon Bjerknes is a writer and researcher who has published numerous books and articles. He is the author of Putin’s Reign of Terror: The Permanent Revolution in our Time, Albert Einstein: The Incorrigible Plagiarist, and Mileva Einstein-Marity: Einstein’s Partner in Crime.
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A 18 year old gunman with purported links to outlawed far-right groups, has opened fire at an office of the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) in Khabarovsk in Russia’s Far East. The shooter was killed by an FSB officer.
Unlike federal security services in many countries, Russia’s FSB has offices in almost every city and town, including comparatively remote locations.
Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) has just arrested the elder brother of a man arrested for his role in organising the deadly terrorist attack on the St. Petersburg Metro earlier this month.
Abror Azimov was arrested two days ago. He was in possession of a gun at the time of the arrest. He has since denied realising he was involved in organising a terrorist attack.
Today, his brother Akram Azimov was apprehended at a bus stop by FSB officers. He was in possession of a RGD-5 field grenade at the time of his arrest.
According to a statement from the FSB,
Earlier this year reports appeared in the Russian media of a series of arrests of Russian FSB officers and cyber specialists, including one Ruslan Stoyanov, an employee of Russia’s top cyber security company, the Kaspersky Lab.
Subsequently it became known that some of them at least had been charged with treason, in a case that supposedly involved the US, with Stoyanov supposedly charged with passing on Russian state secrets to Verigin, a US company.
Mark Hackard returns to Our Interesting Times to discuss his article “The US Establishment’s Russian Scapegoat Veils the Real Enemy Within.” We talk about the Establishment’s attempt to delegitimize the Donald Trump presidency by spreading disinformation regarding alleged collusion between the Trump campaign and Vladimir Putin and the irony of US officials accusing the Kremlin of meddling in the 2016 presidential race.
Whilst US President Donald Trump battles the US intelligence community and the US elite, the foreign leader he most wants to deal with – Russia’s President Putin – has been addressing the senior staff of the organisation he once headed, Russia’s counter-terrorism and counter-intelligence agency, the FSB.
