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AP Confirms Bellingcat: Russian Suspect in UK Poisoning, Is Hero to His Home Village
“Alexander Petrov,” a Russian man accused of an assassination attempt in England, is actually a decorated GRU officer named Alexander Mishkin. The story, first reported by Bellingcat, the crowd-sourced investigative site, and The Insider, a Moscow-based news site, has now been confirmed. AP reporter Nataliya Vasilyeva went to Mishkin’s home town and discovered it was...
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Washington Post’s Greg Miller Says a ‘Deeply Troubled’ CIA Is Helping Mueller’s Investigation
In his new book, The Apprentice, Washington Post reporter Greg Miller made news with new details about a pivotal moment in the 2016 presidential when Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell rejected the CIA’s finding that Russia was seeking to influence the outco In an online interview with readers, Miller revealed more about the how the...
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U.S. Charges Russian GRU Officers with International Hacking and Related Influence and Disinformation Operations
A grand jury in the Western District of Pennsylvania has indicted seven defendants, all officers in the Russian Main Intelligence Directorate (GRU), a military intelligence agency of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, for computer hacking, wire fraud, aggravated identity theft, and money laundering. Source: U.S. Charges Russian GRU Officers...
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Bellingcat and Russia Insider: Skripal Suspects Confirmed as GRU Operatives
The two news sites say leaked passport files of Alexander Petrov and Ruslan Boshirov, two Russians charged with poisoning a former intelligence officer in Great Britain, “displayed characteristics atypical of a civilian person’ passport.” They further alleged that: the number on the suspects’ stamps indeed is identical to a telephone number that belongs to the...