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☆ Putin's old spy agency is a prime suspect for taking out Prigozhin's plane
  + stars: | 2023-08-24 | by ( Sinéad Baker | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +3 min
Russia's FSB appears the most likely party in the apparent death of Prigozhin. UK sources told the BBC the agency probably targeted the plane Prigozhin was apparently on. Putin once ran the FSB himself, and had a long career in its Soviet precursor, the KGB. Germany's foreign minister said the crash seemed to fit "this pattern in Putin's Russia: deaths, dubious suicides, falls from windows, all which remain unclarified – that underlines a dictatorial power system that is built on violence." AdvertisementAdvertisementWhite House National Security Spokesperson Adrienne Watson said that if Prigozhin's death is confirmed "no one should be surprised."
Persons: Prigozhin, Putin, Vladimir Putin, Wagner, Yevgeny Prigozhin, Alexei Navalny, Alexander Litvinenko, it's, Adrienne Watson, Flightradar24 Organizations: FSB, BBC, KGB, Service, Wednesday, Soviet Union's KGB, Kremlin, CIA, Guardian, National, Reuters Locations: Wall, Silicon, Russia's Tver, Moscow, Russia, Ukraine
☆ Surprise resort trips and empty hotel rooms reveal how Russia's plan for an easy victory in Ukraine fell apart
  + stars: | 2023-04-30 | by ( Stavros Atlamazoglou | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +7 min
While Russian intelligence services ramped up operations, the US intelligence community started declassifying intelligence about Russian plans. In an unprecedented move, the US revealed Russia's intentions and informed Kyiv about the Russian intelligence operations inside Ukraine. Once Russia's military secured the city, its special-operations forces would begin what the report calls "repressive operations." The Kremlin even compiled a target deck full of unwanted people to be "liquidated" once the Russian forces were in control of the country. Preparing the battlefieldA member of the Ukrainian military in front of a destroyed Antonov An-225 at the airport in Hostomel in July 2022.
☆ Russia's top spy agency is worried that domestic banks don't have enough foreign currency, report says
  + stars: | 2023-04-27 | by ( Filip De Mott | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +2 min
Russia's top spy agency is worried that domestic banks don't have enough foreign currency. Russia's FSB also urged that any business deals with Chinese firms be kept secret. The Federal Security Service, or FSB, is worried that domestic banks don't have enough foreign currency, the leaked intel assessment said. After Vladimir Putin launched his war on Ukraine last year, Western sanctions froze Russia's foreign-currency reserves. The leaked documents also said that US intelligence officials believe Russia can continuing paying for its war on Ukraine for at least another year.
☆ Russia's arrest of Evan Gershkovich is the first time the country has accused an American journalist of spying since the Cold War. The Wall Street Journal calls the targeting of their reporter 'a vici
  + stars: | 2023-04-02 | by ( Katherine Tangalakis-Lippert | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +5 min
An American Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich was arrested in Russia on Thursday. He is the first American reporter detained by Russia for spying since the Cold War. Gershkovich, a New York-born journalist based in Moscow, was detained in Yekaterinburg, a city in the Ural mountains. The Wall Street Journal has not been in contact with Gershkovich since his arrest, but the outlet vehemently denies that he was doing anything other than reporting while in Russia. Emma Tucker, editor-in-chief of The Wall Street Journal, told CNN's Anderson Cooper on Friday that US State Department officials are working with the outlet to find a way to get Gershkovich released from Russian custody.
☆ Russia arrests WSJ reporter Evan Gershkovich on espionage charges
  + stars: | 2023-03-30 | by ( Mattathias Schwartz | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +2 min
The Russian FSB says it arrested a Wall Street Journal reporter. The reporter, Evan Gershkovich, has been accused of espionage. The Wall Street Journal issued a statement denying the allegations and demanding Gershkovich's immediate release. According to the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB), Gershkovich was detained in Yekaterinburg, a city in the Ural mountains. The headquarters of the Federal Security Service (FSB) in central Moscow on February 25, 2021.
☆ Russia beat, starved, and electrocuted people from a captured Ukrainian nuclear power plant in a web of underground prisons, escaped workers say
  + stars: | 2022-11-18 | by ( Charles R. Davis | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +3 min
Russia has been torturing workers at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, former employees say. The plant in occupied southeastern Ukraine is Europe's largest nuclear power facility. Russian forces captured the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant soon after the Feb. 24 invasion of Ukraine. He and other workers described being beaten, starved, and electrocuted by their interrogators; some were also shot, with at least one employee being tortured to death. Energoatom, Ukraine's state-run nuclear power company, said at least 200 workers have been detained, the Journal reported.
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