A Russian-American ballerina, who was accused of “high treason” in Russia after donating $51 to a Ukrainian charity, is facing a closed-door trial in Russia. Ksenia Karelina, who was born in Russia and became a United States citizen in 2021, faces a sentence of 12 years to life in prison if found guilty, Reuters reported. […]
By Mark Trevelyan LONDON (Reuters) -Russian physicist Anatoly Maslov was convicted of treason and sentenced to 14 years in a penal colony on Tuesday in the latest of several cases against experts working on the science underpinning Russia’s development of hypersonic missiles. White-haired Maslov, 77, stood in a glass box in the St Petersburg courtroom […]
CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — A campaign video for South Africa’s opposition party showing the country’s flag in flames has stoked tensions just weeks ahead of national elections that are seen as the most pivotal since the end of the apartheid system of racial segregation 30 years ago. The opposition Democratic Alliance says the […]
(Bloomberg) — Ecuador’s Public Prosecutor’s Office was asked to open a probe of former President Rafael Correa for alleged treason over comments he made amid a diplomatic crisis with Mexico, according to a statement from the presidency. Most Read from Bloomberg Correa, who lives in Belgium to evade a graft conviction in absentia, has made […]
Russian security services have arrested an American woman on suspicion of “high treason” and raising funds for the Ukrainian army. The FSB in the central Urals city of Yekaterinburg said it had “suppressed the illegal activities” of a 33-year-old woman, a resident of Los Angeles with dual Russian citizenship, and taken her into custody. She […]
A former abbot of the Dormition Cathedral in Kherson was charged with treason for supporting Russian occupation and cooperating with occupation authorities, the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) said on Feb. 19. The suspect fled Kherson shortly before the city’s liberation in Ukraine’s counteroffensive in the fall of 2022. He is now believed to reside […]
Former police officer Dmytro Mamon, suspected of guiding a Russian missile at the village of Hroza in Kharkiv Oblast, has been charged with high treason. Source: Department of Internal Security of the National Police of Ukraine; State Bureau of Investigation; Office of the Prosecutor General, and a source in law enforcement agencies Quote from the […]
Ukraine’s SBU security service has uncovered an agent of Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB), who was responsible for preparing strikes on Ukrainian positions near Avdiivka, the SBU said on Telegram on Jan. 24. Among the enemy’s targets were regional Ukrainian Armed Forces (AFU)headquarters, key fortifications, and possible routes for the movement of heavy weapons towards the front line. The Russians were particularly focused on […]
Ukraine’s SBU security service has uncovered a large-scale email campaign that targets Ukrainian civil servants and private company employees, promising monetary reward for cooperating with Russian special services, the SBU reported via Telegram on Nov. 23. According to law enforcement, the letters are being sent from a multitude of email accounts that have been hacked […]
(Bloomberg) — Sierra Leone’s former President Ernest Bai Koroma, charged with treason earlier this month, is free to travel for medical reasons, President Julius Maada Bio said Thursday. Most Read from Bloomberg “This humanitarian gesture does not in any way detract from the seriousness of the ongoing trials,” Bio said in a televised address. Koroma […]
Ukraine’s SBU security service has detained the founder of one of Ukraine’s largest agricultural firms, the SBU reported on Telegram on Jan 5. SBU officers detained the suspect in his son’s apartment in Kyiv, where he was hiding and planning to escape to Russia. A food company owned by the suspect had reportedly been operating […]
Former Sierra Leone President Ernest Bai Koroma has been charged with four counts of treason in connection with an attempted coup. He was in court in the capital as the charges were read to him. He has previously denied involvement. Last November, gunmen broke into a military armoury and several prisons in Freetown, freeing almost […]