Experts say the Russian Embassy in Prague will have more difficulty spying on the Czech Republic following a major reduction in staff including diplomats suspected of carrying out espionage.
Navy fires back at Moscow’s claims that it chased HMS Dragon out of Russian waters
MoD and MPs dismiss ‘pure fabrication’, which comes after Type 45 destroyer sailed through Crimean waters near Russia’s Black Sea fleet base
27 May 2021 • 8:32pm
An RAF Lynx helicopter fires defensive flares over HMS Dragon. Russia accused the ship of ignoring warnings not to enter his warnings
The Royal Navy was last night forced to deny Russian claims that a British destroyer had been chased out of Crimean waters.
It comes after General Vladimir Kulishov, the deputy director of Russia’s Federal Security Service, claimed that HMS Dragon, a Type 45 destroyer, flouted international maritime laws after it sailed into its territorial waters in October.
One day after his dramatic arrest at a Minsk airport, Belarusian blogger Raman Pratasevich appeared in a video and admitted to inciting mass unrest. But his shaken look and signs of possible mistreatment harked back to forced confessions that remain common in parts of the former U.S.S.R.
25 May in 14:40
Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) detained a supporter of the Islamic State terrorist organization (outlawed in Russia) who plotted to carry out a terrorist attack in the city of Norilsk during a parade celebrating Victory Day, the FSB said in a statement on Tuesday. The Federal Security Service thwarted a terrorist attack in the Krasnoyarsk Region. A Russian national siding with the ideas of the Islamic State international terrorist organization, outlawed in Russia, was taken into custody during an operation in the Stavropol Region on April 22. He intended to carry out a terrorist attack in Norilsk on May 9 by detonating an improvised explosive device in a public place, the statement reads.