MOSCOW (Reuters) – Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny, who fell seriously ill on Thursday after what his allies thought was poisoning, had been under intense police surveillance in previous days. PHILO PHOTO: Medical specialists bring Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny on a stretcher in an ambulance on his way to an …
Read More »Feds charge former Green Beret for espionage with Russia
FALLS CHURCH, Va. A former Green Beret army resident in Northern Virginia was arrested on Friday on charges of disclosing military secrets about his unit’s activities in former Soviet republics during more than a decade of contacts with Russian intelligence. Peter Rafael Dzibinski Debbins, 45, told Russian intelligence that he …
Read More »“Poisoned” Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny is a fierce critic of Putin
Before he found himself after his suspected poisoning to fight for his life, Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny traveled through Siberia and urged Russians to vote against the coronations of Vladimir Putin in upcoming local elections. Navalny, 44, openly described Putin as “the tsar of corruption” and called the Russian leader’s …
Read More »Former Army Green Beret accused of spying for Russia
A former U.S. military official, Green Beret, was arrested on Friday on espionage charges, accused of providing classified information to the Russian intelligence service in a conspiracy that lasted more than a decade. Prosecutors said that from 1996 to 2011, Peter Rafael Dzibinski Debbins collaborated with Russian citizens, who told …
Read More »WHO says children aged 12 and older should wear masks as adults
PHILO PHOTO: A boy wearing a protective face mask plays in a fountain after local authorities imposed lockdown restrictions to prevent the spread of coronavirus (COVID-19) disease, in Moscow, Russia June 12, 2020. REUTERS / Evgenia Novozhenina ZURICH (Reuters) – The World Health Organization (WHO) says children aged 12 and …
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