The software secretly installed on millions of cell-phones is spying on users, reading their text messages and monitoring every keystroke, according to a mobile applications developer, who has published evidence online. Trevor Eckhart, 25, an Android app developer from Connecticut, has published what he says is conclusive proof that millions of smartphones are secretly monitoring [...]
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December 1, 2011
November 29, 2011
Russian lover of British MP Mike Hancock not a spy, says security court
MI5 claims, backed by home secretary Theresa May, that the Russian lover of a Liberal Democrat MP was a spy for Moscow were rejected on Tuesday by a national security court specially convened to hear the case. In an unprecedented judgment, the court – the special immigration appeals commission (Siac) – dismissed MI5′s assertion that [...]
November 29, 2011
Moscow Court reduces jail term to 5 from 13 years for Russian convicted of pedophilia
A Moscow City Court has reduced the jail term of a Russian Transport Ministry official, who was convicted of sexually abusing his daughter, from 13 to 5 years . Vladimir Makarov was found guilty of sexually abusing his eight-year old daughter in September. The case sparked widespread public concern as there was no reliable [...]
November 29, 2011
Court rejects MI5 spy claims over Lib Dem MP’s Russian lover
MI5‘s claims, backed by the home secretary, Theresa May, that the Russian lover of a Liberal Democrat MP spied for Moscow has been dramatically rejected by a national security court convened to hear the case. The court — the special immigration appeals commission (Siac)— has dismissed MI5′s assertion that Ekaterina Zatuliveter, lover and former aide [...]
November 23, 2011
A most wanted man: 5 years on, search still strong for Litvinenko killer
Former Soviet KGB agent Aleksandr Litvinenko died a slow, torturous death in London on November 23rd 2006 – poisoned by radioactive polonium. The case is still open – and a definite thorn in relations between Russia and the UK. The original suspect in the case, Russian politician and former security officer Andrey Lugovoy, has diplomatic [...]
November 9, 2011
IAEA study as pretext for war on Iran
In its most critical report yet on the country, the International Atomic Energy Agency says Iran might be working on developing nuclear weapons. Its findings were widely-expected and come days after Israel bluntly declared that military action against Iran is getting closer, raising fears the report could be a pretext for an attack. In fact, [...]
November 9, 2011
Cameras to witness against drivers
President Medvedev says cameras should replace witnesses during police raids. His proposal will be discussed by the Interior Ministry on December 1. Medvedev says using witnesses is an outdated practice. Policemen often complain that witnesses are hard to find, and people can be put-off by the fear of vengeance from criminals. Critics believe it is [...]
November 2, 2011
It’s business as usual when it comes to companies paying bribes | Claire Provost
Companies from the world’s most powerful economies are still thought to routinely pay bribes when doing business abroad, despite a steady stream of new laws and international commitments to stamp out foreign bribery, according to an index that aims to balance the “blame” for corruption between developed and developing countries. Russia and China, which together [...]
November 2, 2011
Boris Berezovsky’s witness statement – full text
Boris Berezovsky’s evidence in his lawsuit against Roman Abramovich, whom he accuses of betraying him when he fell out with the Kremlin
October 31, 2011
FBI Releases Video On Russian Spy Ring
The FBI has released video showing members of an alleged former Russian spy ring apparently secretly exchanging information and money. The recordings are among documents released from an FBI surveillance operation. The 10 deep-cover agents were freed in a spy swap in July 2010. They had spent years in the United States, but there is [...]
October 28, 2011
Suspects may have been falsely jailed in Russia over pedophile cases
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev’s plan to chemically castrate convicted pedophiles and introduce other austere measures for those who molest minors are under greater doubt after a recent string of articles in Komsomolskaya Pravda exposed allegedly false expert testimony in pedophilia trials in Moscow. The newspaper articles, which indicate that a single center licensed only to [...]
October 20, 2011
MP’s Russian assistant was no spy, says lawyer
If Katia Zatuliveter, the 26-year-old former assistant and lover of the Liberal Democrat MP Mike Hancock, was a Russian spy she would be the first anywhere in the world to fight the accusation in open court, her lawyer saidon Thursday. Tim Owen QC argued that the only reason a senior MI5 officer was appearing at [...]
October 19, 2011
Lib Dem MP quits Commons committee over aide’s spying trial
A Liberal Democrat MP whose former aide is accused by MI5 of spying for Russia has resigned from the Commons defence committee. Mike Hancock, the MP for Portsmouth South, said he hoped to rejoin the committee after the deportation hearing involving Katia Zatuliveter, with whom he had a four-year affair, was over. “I would like [...]
October 19, 2011
Putin Has Radio Svoboda On His Mind
Dangerous and subversive CIA tool, harmless propaganda organ, or evidence of Russian liberalism? Russian Prime Minister (and once and future president) Vladimir Putin wants to have it every way when it comes to describing RFE/RL’s Russian Service, aka Radio Svoboda. Putin provided Svoboda with a little backhanded publicity in a prime-time interview aired on October [...]