Novaya Gazeta has learned of a third arrest in the hackers’ treason case in which a Kaspersky Laboratory employee and an FSB agent have already been arrested. He is Maj. Dmitry Dokuchayev, a senior operative at the 2nd department of the operations division at the Center for Information Security.
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The independent news site Novaya Gazeta reports that an FSB agent and a Kaspirsky Laboratory cybersecurity specialist were arrested for passing information to American intelligence about attempts to hack elections in Arizona and Illinois.
A top manager of the Kaspersky Laboratory and an officer of the Federal Security Service’s (FSB) Center for Information were arrested and charged with treason, possibly for receiving payment from a middleman related to a foreign organization.
Pyotr Tolstoy, great grand-son of writer Leo Tolstoy and deputy speaker of parliament, blames the Jews for the campaign to prevent the return of St. Isaac’s Cathedral to the Russian Orthodox Church.
Five Ukrainian soldiers have been wounded in the last 2 days. Ukrainian intelligence foiled an assassination attempt on MP Anton Gerashchenko.
One Ukrainian soldier was killed in battle in the past day.
A Russian weapons foundry in the Ural Mountains has issued a commemorative silver and gold coins for the 45th US president’s inauguration, with the slogan, “In Donald Trump We Trust.”
Spanish police arrested prominent Dutch corporate lawyer Peter Wakkie, at the Madrid Airport as part of an investigation into the insolvency of the Russian-Spanish telecoms firm ZED+. The story attracted more interest because Russian oligarch Mikhail Fridman has an interest in ZED+ and is also mentioned in the Trump “kompromat” dossier.
