The Russian Federal News Agency (FAN), which is believed to be connected to Yevgeny “Putin’s Chef” Prigozhin, has published its response to a reported US military cyberattack against the Internet Research Agency (IRA, a.k.a. the “Troll Factory”) on US Congress election day. The FAN claims the Americans were “unprofessional” and that their attempts were “unproductive”. 

The Russian propagandists say that there is “neither official confirmation nor any other reasons” to believe that the IRA and …

Deutsche Welle reports that the Swedish State Security Service (SEPO) detained a man suspected of spying for Russia in Stockholm. 

SEPO suspects that the detainee has been involved in espionage activities since at least 2017. He could have been recruited by a Russian intelligence agent working under diplomatic cover. 

The detainee worked in the field of advanced technologies, in particular, with information that is of interest to foreign intelligence services, notes SEPO. 

In December 2018, …

Russia and Israel will set up a working group with a number of other countries to assess the possibility of removing foreign forces from Syria, a high-ranking source in the Israeli government told reporters on Wednesday after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's visit to Moscow, TASS reported. 

“It was decided to set up a working group with the participation of Russia, Israel and several other countries to work on removing foreign forces from Syria,” the source said. 

Netanyahu's visit …

Nephew of Russian propagandist Dmitry Kiselev is being tried in court in Munich Germany. Dmitry Kiselev’s relative, Sergei Kiselev, is accused of planning to participate in combat actions in the Donbas, writes RTVI.

According to the investigation, in the summer of 2014, the accused began military training in a training camp in St Petersburg, to prepare to join the DPR (Donets People’s Republic) militants in the Donbas.

He planned to go the territories of Ukraine which are not under the Kyiv’s …

The Constitutional Court of Ukraine has published its decision to declare article 368-2 of the Ukrainian Criminal Code (illegal enrichment) unconstitutional.

“The Constitutional Court of Ukraine has made a decision in the case of the constitutional proposal of 59 Ukrainian MPs concerning the constitutionality of article 368-2 of the Ukrainian Criminal Code. With this decision, the court has recognized that article 368-2 of the Code is unconstitutional,” says the ruling, which was published on …