Russian colonel who took part in Donbas war arrested in Ukraine
The State Border Guard Service (SBGS) of Ukraine arrested Russian Colonel Valery Gratov, whom Russian intelligence planned to make the “deputy minister of state security of Transnistria”.
This was reported on July 9 by Oleh Slobodyan, assistant to the head of the SBGS. According to him, the arrest took place early in June.
“The Ukrainian citizen Valery Georgievich Voytenko, born in 1954, arrived to exit Ukraine, and showed general civil control a Ukrainian citizen’s passport. He presented a …
Russian media reports mass execution of Chechen residents without trial
In Chechnya on the night of 26 January 2017 there was supposedly a mass extrajudicial execution of 27 people, reports Novaya Gazeta with reference to two sources, one in the office of the Russian Investigative Committee for Chechnya, and another in the republic’s administration.
Novaya Gazeta does not know what the executed people were suspected of or the basis of their arrest.
According to the publication’s information, all 27 of the victims were arrested in January during the mass arrests …
Ukrainian border guards: Russians create waiting lines at the administrative border with the Crimea
On Saturday, the Russian border guard along the administrative border with the Russian-annexed peninsula created queues of cars, which were traveling to the Crimea from the mainland of Ukraine and back, as reported by Ukrinform, citing the Assistant Chief of the Berdyansk Border Guard and the head of its press service, Nelya Dotsenko.
"On Saturday, a long line of vehicles that were traveling from mainland Ukraine to the annexed Crimea formed at the Ukrainian Chonhar checkpoint. At 6 a.m. there …
A Russian citizen accused of preparing a terrorist act in Belgium was detained in Italy
According to Huffington Post, representatives of Italian prosecutors said that yesterday, July 7, a Chechen immigrant named Eli Bombataliev was arrested in Italy.
Bombataliev has been accused of preparing a terrorist attack in Belgium. He and his wife Marina Kachmazova may have intended to commit a whole series of terrorist attacks.
After studying the detainee’s phone, Italian law enforcement officers discovered that he had urged his wife to “blast herself.” The police found that Bombataliev …
Media: Former top managers of PrivatBank have left Ukraine to avoid investigation into the bank’s artificially created insolvency
Former top managers of PrivatBank and members of its credit committee have long left Ukraine, while 11 persons involved in the PrivatBank case are on the international wanted list, reports in Zerkalo Nedeli ('Mirror Weekly').
The publication writes that the case filed to bring PrivatBank to insolvency may reach a dead end.
"How long has it been since the top management of the bank, like the members of the credit committee, appeared in public; and when was the last time they were seen in …