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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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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 …
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Russia commented on Boris Johnson's cancelled Moscow trip
The spokesperson of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova claimed that British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson gave an absurd reason for canceling his visit to Moscow.
Zakharova noted that the cancellation of the visit happened “right after it was rescheduled.” She stressed that the reasons the British were changing their reasons for the cancellation, reported TASS news agency.
“It seems that our Western colleagues are living in their own reality in which they first coherently make …