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Russian programmer arrested in Barcelona at request of U.S.
The police of Barcelona arrested a Russian programmer at the request of the American authorities. According to preliminary information, 36-year-old Peter Levashov was arrested at the request of the United States on suspicion of involvement in hacking activities, in particular related to Donald Trump’s election campaign.
The representative of the Consular Department of the Russian Embassy in Madrid, Andrey Konstantinov, confirmed the fact that he had been arrested. According to Levashov’s wife, …
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Media: Meeting with Putin has disappeared from Tillerson's schedule
A meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin has disappeared from U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson's schedule.
Voice of America’s White House Bureau Chief, Steve Herman, reported on this in his Twitter blog.
"A meeting with Russian President Putin has been removed from Secretary of State Tillerson's Moscow schedule." Herman wrote.
Tillerson is going to Moscow on April 11-12, after a meeting of the Foreign Ministers of the G-7.
The Foreign Secretary of the UK, Boris Johnson was going …
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Russian arrested in Oslo on suspicion of terrorist act
On Sunday, April 9, a 17-year-old Russian was arrested in Oslo, the capital of Norway. This happened after Oslo police discovered and neutralized an explosive device of "primitive assembly" in the center of the city on Saturday night.
The Norwegian authorities have increased the level of the terrorist threat from "possible" to "probable".
According to the police, the detainee was known to them and had earlier expressed sympathy for the militants of the "Islamic State" organization.
Reuters …
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Information uncovered about a second prison for homosexuals in the Russian republic of Chechnya
In Chechnya, the "secret prison" in which men suspected of homosexuality were held is located not only in the town of Argun, but also in the village of Tsotsi-Yurt , reported Radio Liberty citing Chechens who left the republic.
According to sources, detainments were handled by the district police departments so that homosexuals were imprisoned in the same way as other offenders. Also, sources report that raids on gays began not in February but in December 2016.
Law enforcement agencies of …
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An issue of Allegro magazine was removed from circulation in Finland due to its advertisement of tours to Crimea
The Finnish state railway company, VR, has decided to seize the entire circulation of the Allegro magazine due to an advertisement for tourist trips to the Crimea, reported Yle news agency.
Allegro magazine is intended for passengers of high-speed Allegro trains running between Helsinki and St. Petersburg. It is issued jointly by VR and JSC Russian Railways.
The latest issue of the magazine contained an advertisement for Crimean travel published in Finnish, English, and Russian. The title …