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Who is Pavel Rubtsov, the journalist released in Russia-West prisoner swap?

Dual Russian-Spanish citizen was greeted by President Putin last week after spending years in a Polish jail.

Al Jazeera

Spanish journalist or Russian spy? The mystery around Pablo González's double life

Among the Russians freed in this week's historic exchange of prisoners between Russia and the West was a Russian-born freelance journalist from Spain who had been based in Poland since 2019

The Independent UK

Putin’s hitman, spies and a credit card fraudster: The prisoners returned to Russia in historic swap

While there is only one known assassin among them, all of the Russians exchanged in Thursday’s trade have unique, and in most cases, quite surreal, backstories, reports Justin Rohrlich

The Independent UK

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Attacks on France's Infrastructure Highlight Modern World's Vulnerability

Enjoy your conveniences. But don’t let yourself become helpless in their absence.

Reason

Estonia convicts a university professor from Russia of spying for Moscow

A university professor has been jailed in Estonia after being found guilty of spying for Russia

The Independent UK

As Ukraine war rages, Russia activates sabotage plans in Europe: Experts

Russia is accused of putting into effect psychological, economic and military operations planned by the USSR.

Al Jazeera

Putin is playing a game of thrones with his inner circle. And one man is rising in the shadows

Sergei Borisovich Korolev, the first deputy director of the FSB, is said by European officials to have emerged a winner behind the scenes in the Russian president’s recent Kremlin reshuffle. Kim Sengupta reports

The Independent UK

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World War War III May Already Have Started—in the Shadows

Cyber intrusions, arson, bombings, and other mayhem feature in the conflict between West and East.

Reason

Vladimir Putin's Russian spies 'recruiting far-right activists to carry out terror attacks in UK'

Britain has expelled dozens of Russian spies after the Salisbury poisonings in 2018.

Evening Standard

Ukraine war briefing: Russian drone strike injures three and sparks fire in Kharkiv

A 13-year-old child and two women were struck by debris from downed drones; Lithuania rejects Russian claims of sabotage. What we know on day 801

The Guardian - AU

Volkov attack signals Russia’s return to cold war-era spying in Europe

Defence experts say Moscow is rapidly improving its intelligence operations after Ukraine invasion

The Guardian - UK

Russian military botnet discovered on 1000+ compromised routers — FBI deactivated Moobot by taking control of impacted routers

A GRU botnet using Moobot was installed on unsecured routers (including those belonging to many homes and small businesses) with default admin passwords.

Tom’s Hardware

US crimefighters shut down botnet used by Russian Fancy Bear hackers

DoJ expels Fancy Bear out of hundreds of routers which were used for attacks against Ukraine.

TechRadar

Russia-linked hackers claim cyberattack on Ukraine’s mobile networks: ‘Be prepared’

Putin-backed hackers warn other offices helping Ukrainian Armed Forces after knocking out Kyivstar’s connection

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France 24

Scores wounded in Russian strikes on Kyiv and Odesa as Ukraine seeks more aid from Europe

A barrage of Russian missiles targeted Kyiv on Wednesday, wounding more than 50 people, and dozens of drones targeted Odesa on Thursday, wounding more than 10, said Ukrainian officials, as President Volodymyr Zelensky sought more military support in Europe after a trip to Washington secured no new pledges.

The Independent UK

Giuliani ally in Ukraine charged with treason

Oleksandr Dubinsky has branded the investigation a ‘political persecution’

The Independent UK

Swedish court acquits Russian-born businessman of spying for Moscow

A Russian-born Swedish businessman has been acquitted of collecting information for Russia's military intelligence service, the GRU, for almost a decade

France 24

Notorious Russian general, master spy duo organise in Africa after Prigozhin’s demise

In recent weeks, Russia’s Deputy Defence Minister Yunus-Bek Yevkurov and General Andrei Averyanov from the GRU military intelligence agency have made several trips to Africa. The two are increasingly seen as the main organisers of the post-Prigozhin era of Russian relationships with Africa following the Wagner Group chief’s demise in…

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The Independent UK

Swedish citizen goes on trial on charges of collecting information for Russia

The trial has opened in Stockholm of a Russia-born Swedish citizen charged with collecting information for the Russian military intelligence service GRU for almost a decade

The Independent UK

Sweden charges man arrested last year in predawn raid with spying for Russia

A Russian-born Swedish citizen has been charged with collecting information for Russia's military intelligence service GRU for almost a decade

France 24

Prigozhin's death: Show of strength or admission of weakness for Putin?

Yevgeny Prigozhin, head of the Wagner Group, was on board a plane that crashed in Russia on Wednesday, leaving no survivors, according to Russian media reports. While many details are yet to be confirmed, many Russia watchers wonder how and why Prigozhin survived so long after his June 23 mutiny…

The Independent UK

Former MI6 spy chief says all signs suggest Wagner boss Prigozhin was ‘taken out’ by Putin

Second former intelligence officer suggested a bomb in a ‘wine crate’ may have downed the jet

The Guardian - UK

Russia turning to sleeper cells and unofficial agents

Moscow has turned to riskier methods of espionage after expulsion of spies it had placed under diplomatic cover in Europe

Daily Mirror

Inside chilling home of Wagner boss - alligator, disguises and severed heads

The former ally of Vladimir Putin staged an armed revolt against the Kremlin regime a few weeks ago but was forced to abandon his plotted coup and go into hiding

The Independent UK

Cop, father, traitor, spy: How Robert Hanssen’s pious life masked a career of treason

The arrest of traitor FBI agent Robert Hanssen devastated US intelligence agencies, raising more than a few questions about how he’d sold secrets for more than two decades. The spy met his inglorious end in a Colorado jail cell this week - but his brazen path of treason remains a…

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