Opposition leader Alexey Navalny is now prevented from running for president due to a re-sentencing to 5 years suspended in the Kirovles case. Parnas party chair Mikhail Kasyanov may run as the opposition’s united candidate.
LIVE UPDATES: Vladimir Kara-Murza, Jr., journalist and activist in the Russian opposition remains in serious condition on life support with the same symptoms as his poisoning in 2015. The previous issue is here. Recent Analysis and Translations: ‘Hybrid Cyberwars’: Are the Russian Hackers’ Arrests About American or Internal Russian issues? Don’t Forget About ‘Soft Power’ […]
LIVE UPDATES: Vladimir Kara-Murza, Jr., journalist and activist in the Russian opposition remains in critical condition on life support with the same symptoms as his poisoning in 2015. The previous issue is here. Recent Analysis and Translations: ‘Hybrid Cyberwars’: Are the Russian Hackers’ Arrests About American or Internal Russian issues? Don’t Forget About ‘Soft Power’ […]
Vladimir Kara-Murza, Jr., journalist and activist in the Russian opposition, has been hospitalized again today in serious condition with the same symptoms as his poisoning in 2015.
Ivan Pavlov, a Moscow human rights lawyer, announced to day that one of the 4 cybersecurity professionals arrested last month is his client, and the alleged hackers are charged with “treason on behalf of the US”.
LIVE UPDATES: Opposition leader Alexey Navalny has been arrested by court bailiffs and taken to the airport to be put on a flight to Kirov, where a re-trial of his Kirovles case already overturned by Russia’s Supreme Court is underway. The previous issue is here. Recent Analysis and Translations: Live Updates: New Allegations Emerge That […]
Mystery surrounds the death of Oleg Yerovinkin, a former KGB chief and close aide of Igor Sechin, CEO of Rosneft. Police killed 3 militants in a raid in Dagestan.
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.
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.
