covert action

Targeted restrictions on Russia-related and extremist files face likely court challenges over federalism and voter choice

Prosecutors say the network paid or tried to pay people in the U.S. and elsewhere to conduct surveillance and carry out targeted killings of Russian dissidents

By day he taught salsa in a small studio in northern Russia. By night, investigators say, he recruited strangers online to set fires across the European Union

Welt am Sonntag names two suspects, including a GRU-linked Russian who planned the failed August strike near a Ukrainian cargo plane

Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre said the Ukrainian president’s plane was almost hit by a drone as it departed Moldova

Moscow’s expected retaliation completes a week of tit-for-tat closures and deepens a collapse in bilateral ties

A GRU officer caught with a detonator is a casus belli. A 28-year-old from the Balkans caught with a bottle is a crime story

Europe signals a harder line on Russian tourists, former combatants, and frozen assets while reaffirming support for Ukraine

The war in Europe is no longer confined to Ukraine. Looking the other way remains the Kremlin’s main asset

Moscow calls the claims “absurd” and an unprecedented escalation

The two incidents sit on a short stretch of the German–Polish border and hit different parts of the same strategic infrastructure

Almost at the same time, similar wreaths and a photograph of executive David Chur appeared outside the offices of the Czech defence company CSG