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The bombing suspect, whom the Tass state news agency identified as Akhmadzhon Kurbonov, is escorted to a courtroom at the Basmanny District Court in Moscow on Thursday. An Uzbek citizen accused of acting on behalf of Ukraine has been charged by Russian authorities with this week’s assassination of a senior Russian general and his assistant in an electric scooter bombing …

Russia detains man accused of plotting rail bombing in Crimea

A Russian citizen is accused of preparing a bombing under the instructions of Ukraine’s military intelligence. Russia’s Federal Security Service has detained a man for plotting a rail bombing in Crimea as a drone was downed over the Moscow-occupied peninsula. The FSB said on Friday the suspect – a Russian citizen in his mid-40s – had been “collecting information on …

Russia on Monday accused a former US consulate employee of illegally passing data about the Ukraine conflict to American diplomats, drawing a protest from Washington which has called his activities routine. The FSB said it had charged Russian citizen Robert Shonov, who worked for more than 25 years for the US consulate in the Far Eastern city of Vladivostok, over …

Tatsunori Motoki, accused of spying by Russia’s FSB, was held for a few hours before being released and ordered to leave the country. In Tokyo, Chief Cabinet Secretary Hirokazu Matsuno described Motoki’s detention as unacceptable, and accused the FSB of using a “coercive” approach towards the diplomat. “A Japanese diplomat was detained red-handed while receiving classified information, in exchange for …

Russia on Monday accused Ukraine's secret services of killing Darya Dugina, the daughter of Russian ultra-nationalist and President Vlamidir Putin's aide Alexander Dugin, in a car bombing on the outskirts of Moscow. "A vile, cruel crime ended the life of Darya Dugina, a bright, talented person with a real Russian heart -- kind, loving, sympathetic and open," AFP quoted Putin …

Kyiv denies involvement in the car bombing that killed the daughter of prominent Russian ultra-nationalist Alexander Dugin. Russia has accused Ukrainian “special services” of carrying out a car bombing that killed Darya Dugina, the daughter of an influential Russian ultra-nationalist who has backed Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine. In a statement on Monday, Russia’s Federal Security Service, the main successor to …

Russian accused of influencing US political groups is indicted

CNN — The Justice Department unveiled on Friday a conspiracy charge against a Russian national accused of working with FSB agents and using unnamed political groups in the US as foreign agents of Russia. Aleksandr Viktorovich Ionov allegedly orchestrated “a years-long foreign malign influence campaign that used various U.S. political groups to sow discord, spread pro-Russian propaganda, and interfere in …

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday rejected allegations that the Kremlin was behind the poisoning of his top political foe, opposition leader Alexei Navalny, and accused U.S. intelligence agencies of fomenting the claims. Speaking via video call during an annual marathon news conference, the Russian leader countered the accusations by saying that if the Kremlin wanted to poison Mr. Navalny …