The Norwegian authorities released a Russian man on Friday suspected of espionage. He was stuck for almost a month. The Norwegian Police Security Service (PST) wanted to extend the pre-trial detention order, but the Oslo court rejected that request. The appeal of the PST was also unsuccessful.
Russian President Vladimir Putin sees no reason to revise relations with Saudi Arabia. He said Thursday that Russia does not have enough information about the unexplained disappearance of a Saudi journalist to justify a review of ties with Riyadh.
The citizen research team Bellingcat acts as a front for Western intelligence services to manipulate public opinion. That accusation comes from the Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov in an interview with Euronews.
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo arrived in Ankara on Wednesday. He will hold interviews with Turkish officials about the disappearance of the Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
Turkey has given a new name to the road leading to the new American embassy in the country. The road in the capital Ankara is now called the Malcolm X road, to the leader of the militant civil rights movement for black Americans who was murdered in 1965.
After the release of the American preacher Andrew Brunson and his departure from Turkey, the presidents of Turkey and the United States can get together again through Twitter. Brunson, who was held in Turkey for about two years on suspected ties with terror organizations until Friday afternoon, was at the center of a serious dispute between Ankara and Washington.
Spacemen Aleksej Ovtsjinin and Nick Hague, who had to make an emergency landing on Thursday after their launch, will be able to go into space again next spring. Their flight to the international space station ISS is scheduled for next spring. The head of the Russian space agency Roskosmos, Dmitri Rogozin, said that Friday to the Interfax news agency.
The journalistic research network Bellingcat says he has discovered the identity of 'Alexander Yevgenyevich Petrov', one of the two suspects in the Skripal case. It was about Aleksandr Yevgenyhich Mishkin, military doctor of the Russian military intelligence service GROe.
The prominent Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, who is missing since he visited the Saudi consulate in Istanbul last week, was tortured and murdered by a flown-in liquidation team. Saudi agents then cut his body into pieces and smuggled it out of the building in boxes.
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One of the Russian hackers who, according to the US and the Netherlands, are behind the cyber attacks on, among others, the OPCW in The Hague, is registered at an address in Moscow that has been identified by the Americans as a building of the military intelligence service GROe.
The Kremlin no longer wants to respond to 'discussions in the media' about the identity of two suspects in the Skripal case, the former spy who survived a murder attempt in Salisbury. The suspects declared themselves to be businessmen who have nothing to do with the case, but according to Bellingcat research network they actually work for the Russian military intelligence service GROe.
Pussy Riot activist Pjotr Verzilov is fired from a hospital in Berlin. He was treated there to poisoning symptoms, but his health has improved considerably. The activist has stated in the newspaper Bild the suspicion that the Russian secret service has poisoned him.
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has his Russian colleague Vladimir Putin's 'deep participation'. stated after shooting a Russian military aircraft off the Syrian coast. According to him, the incident is the result of the 'usual arrogance of Israel \u0026 quot; always the 'dirtiest means'; used for his ' low goals \u0026 quot ;, can be read in a condolence letter. The Syrian state news agency SANA reports this on Wednesday.
The shooting down of a Russian army apparatus in Syria seems to be the result of 'a tragic coincidence,' said Russian President Vladimir Putin, who proposed to take additional measures to ensure the safety of Russian troops in Syria.
The Russian atomic energy giant Rosatom is rapidly starting to build two new nuclear reactors in Hungary. Russian President Vladimir Putin said this during a visit to Moscow by Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban. The reactors arrive at the Paks NPP nuclear power plant, which already accounts for 40 percent of all electricity in Hungary.
The sick Piot Riot activist Pjotr Verzilov, who ended up in the intensive care unit of a Moscow hospital last week, has most likely been poisoned with a substance that affects the nervous system. A doctor from a hospital in Berlin, where Verzilov now resides, has announced on Tuesday.
A Russian military aircraft was removed from the air by the Syrian army at or above Syria. The Russian Ministry of Defense has informed that.
Justice in Switzerland wants to prosecute two Russians to carry out 'a cyber attack' on the world anti-doping agency WADA in Lausanne. In 2016, WADA itself reported that a large batch of medical data from athletes had been captured in a cyber-burglary.
Pussy Riot activist Pjotr Verzilov, who ended up in the intensive care unit of a Moscow hospital last week with poisoning symptoms, was admitted to a hospital in Berlin. According to another member of Pussy Riot, it is better with Verzilov.
Pussy Riot activist Pjotr Verzilov, who ended up in the intensive care unit of a Moscow hospital last week with poisoning symptoms, is likely to be flown to Berlin. Veronika Nikoelsjina, a friend of Verzilov, said Saturday that it is the intention that the medical treatment of Verzilov in the German capital will be continued.
The Kremlin would seriously consider a British request to allow the two men suspected of the poison-murder attempt at Salisbury. So far, however, London has not reported.
The Russian-Canadian activist Pjotr Verzilov, who ended up in the intensive care unit of a Moscow hospital with poisoning symptoms, probably received an overdose of a strong drug. The unofficial spokesman of the anarchist punk rock band Pussy Riot, according to the treating physicians, was struck by too many anticholinergics, drugs that work muscle relaxing.
The Russian-Canadian activist and artist Pjotr Verzilov has been rushed to a hospital in Moscow. The unofficial spokesperson for the feminist-anarchist punk band Pussy Riot is in the intensive care unit with symptoms that, according to his family, indicate poisoning.
The Austrian journalist Max Zirngast has been arrested in Turkey. The police stopped him early Tuesday morning in Ankara. Apart from Zirngast, who wrote several critical articles about the Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan, two Turkish citizens were arrested.
On Sunday according to the human rights organization OVD-Info, the Russian police arrested nearly 850 people who demonstrated against the plans of the government to raise the pensionable age. In St Petersburg, most demonstrators were taken off the streets, 354 people prefered. The city of Ekaterinburg reported 129 arrests. Not all cities have received data.
Thousands of supporters of the Russian opposition leader Alexej Navalni, who himself is serving a prison sentence, have taken to the streets on Sunday in protest to raise the pensionable age. The organizers of the protest reported that the police certainly arrested 150 activists.
More than seven million Muscovites are allowed to go to the polls on Sunday to choose a new mayor. Although there are five candidates, it is almost certain that the Kremlin-faithful Sergei Sobjanin gets a new term.
Together with ally Russia, Syria carried out heavy air raids on Saturday in the province of Idlib. This is considered the last large enclave still in the hands of insurgents against President Bashar al-Assad. The Observatory for Human Rights reported that at least four people were killed.
A Turkish filmmaker has been sentenced to a prison sentence of more than six years for membership in a terrorist organization. Ali Avci made a film that was based on the failed coup of 2016.
