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☆ Russia expels two US embassy staff for 'illegal activity'
  + stars: | 2023-09-14 | by ( Alexander Marrow Mark Trevelyan | Alexander Marrow | Mark Trevelyan | ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +2 min
LONDON, Sept 14 (Reuters) - Russia said on Thursday it was expelling two U.S. diplomats whom it accused of working with a Russian national charged with collaborating with a foreign state. "The named people conducted illegal activity, maintaining contact with Russian citizen R. Shonov, accused of 'confidential cooperation' with a foreign state," the Russian statement said. In its statement, the Russian Foreign Ministry said Shonov had been paid to complete tasks aimed at damaging Russia's national security. Relations between Russia and the United States have plunged to their worst point for more than 60 years because of the war in Ukraine. The United States is providing advanced weaponry to Ukraine and has hit Russia with sanctions in response to its invasion in February 2022.
Persons: Lynne Tracy, Jeffrey Sillin, David Bernstein, Shonov, Robert Shonov, Sillin, Bernstein, Tracy, Andrew Heavens Organizations: Foreign Ministry, State Department, U.S . Consulate, United, Russian Foreign Ministry, Thomson Locations: Russia, Russian, U.S, Washington, Vladivostok, Ukraine, United States, Moscow
☆ US accuses Russia of intimidation after ex-consulate worker charged with spying
  + stars: | 2023-08-28 | by ( ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +2 min
A woman uses her mobile phone in front of the Federal Security Service (FSB) building on Lubyanka Square in Moscow, Russia, June 24, 2023. The FSB said it planned to question U.S. embassy employees who were in contact with Shonov, who has been under arrest since May. "We strongly protest the Russian security services' attempts - furthered by Russia's state-controlled media - to intimidate and harass our employees," said Miller. The Russian embassy in Washington did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Reporting by Reuters; additional reporting by Simon Lewis in Washington; editing Mark Heinrich and Rosalba O'BrienOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.
Persons: Maxim Shemetov, Moscow, Robert Shonov, Shonov, Matthew Miller, Washington, Miller, Simon Lewis, Mark Heinrich, Rosalba O'Brien Organizations: Federal Security Service, REUTERS, Washington, U.S . Consulate, State, U.S, Reuters, Thomson Locations: Moscow, Russia, United States, U.S, Ukraine, Russian, Vladivostok, Washington
☆ Russia Charges Former U.S. Embassy Employee With Helping a Foreign State
  + stars: | 2023-05-16 | by ( Alan Cullison | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Russian authorities arrested a former supply manager for the U.S. Consulate in Vladivostok, state news agencies reported. Photo: Yuri Smityuk/Zuma PressMoscow has charged a former employee of the U.S. Embassy in Russia with collaborating with a foreign state, Russia news services reported, amid a broadening Kremlin campaign against Western influence that has complicated work of the U.S. mission there. Russian state news agencies identified the employee as Robert Shonov , 62 years old, a longtime supply manager for the U.S. Consulate in the far eastern provincial city of Vladivostok, which closed two years ago.
☆ U.S. Condemns Russia’s Arrest of Embassy Contractor
  + stars: | 2023-05-16 | by ( Alan Cullison | Daniel Nasaw | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Robert Shonov worked for more than 25 years for the U.S. Consulate General in Vladivostok, Russia. Photo: Yuri Smityuk/Zuma PressThe U.S. condemned Moscow’s jailing of a Russian contractor for the American Embassy there, describing the arrest as a “blatant use of increasingly repressive laws against its own citizens.”Robert Shonov, 62 years old, was charged under a statute penalizing Russians who help a foreign state undermine Russia’s interests, Russian news agencies reported. The U.S. said the allegations were “wholly without merit.” He was arrested in March, and is now being held in Moscow’s Lefortovo prison, whose cells are typically reserved for suspects in high-profile espionage cases, and faces eight years in prison, the agencies reported.
☆ The CIA launched a Telegram channel to get Russians to spy for them, with one former spook saying now is 'probably the best period of recruiting Russians that we've had'
  + stars: | 2023-05-16 | by ( Mia Jankowicz | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +4 min
The CIA is attempting to recruit Russian spies with video posts on Telegram. As of Tuesday, the new CIA Telegram account had almost 5,000 followers. A screenshot from a CIA recruitment video aimed at Russians posted online on May 15, 2023. A screenshot from a CIA recruitment video aimed at Russians posted online on May 15, 2023. James Olson, a former counterintelligence chief, told CNN that this is "probably the best period of recruiting Russians that we've had."
☆ A former U.S. Embassy employee is being held in Moscow, according to Russia’s state news agency.
  + stars: | 2023-05-15 | by ( Daniel Victor | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
Robert Shonov, identified as a former employee of the U.S. Embassy in Russia, was arrested in the Russian city of Vladivostok and charged with conspiracy, according to the Russian state news agency Tass. Vedant Patel, a State Department spokesman, told reporters at a briefing on Monday that he had seen the report but that “I don’t have anything additional to offer at this time.”Tass, quoting an anonymous law enforcement official, said that Mr. Shonov was accused of “collaboration on a confidential basis with a foreign state or international or foreign organization.” He has been taken to Lefortovo Prison in Moscow, Tass reported, and no court date has been set. Being held in isolation is commonplace at Lefortovo, a notorious high-security prison whose inmates currently include Evan Gershkovich, the Wall Street Journal correspondent who was accused of espionage in March, charges that his employer and American officials have strongly denied. Also being held at the prison is Paul Whelan, a former U.S. Marine who is serving a 16-year sentence on what the United States has said are fabricated charges of espionage.
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