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A French citizen arrested in Russia has pleaded guilty to criminal charges involving illegally collecting information on military issues in the country, according to state news agency Tass. Laurent Vinatier was arrested in the Russian capital in June as tensions flared between Moscow and Paris following French President Emmanuel Macron's comments about the possibility of deploying French troops in Ukraine. Russian authorities accused Vinatier of failing to register as a "foreign agent" while collecting information about Russia's "military and military-technical activities" which could be used ...
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Russian authorities say they have arrested a French national on suspicion of espionage offences. As reported by state-owned news agency TASS, the Russian Investigative Committee says it has launched a criminal case against the unnamed man, who allegedly "failed to register himself as a foreign agent in compliance with Russian legislation" and "has been gathering information on Russia's military and military-technical activities". "This information, when obtained by foreign sources, can be used against the security of the state," the committee said in a statement. "For these purposes, he repeat...
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Ursula von der Leyen has reiterated her plan to create a European "shield for democracy" to deal with foreign interference. The European Commission president was in Sweden on Monday to meet with Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson and Deputy PM Ebba Busch at a small-scale forestry north of Stockholm. During the press conference, von der Leyen was asked how Europe can prevent the kind of negative foreign influence seen in the recently revealed Pravfond case. The Commission president's answer was that countries need to "join forces at the European level". The Pravfond case, as originally repo...
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Poland has arrested 18 people on allegations of pursuing hostile activities or planning sabotage on behalf of Russia and Belarus, the interior minister said on Monday. The allegations including plans to assassinate Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Ten of those arrested since December were directly involved in planning various forms of sabotage across Poland, Interior Minister Tomasz Siemoniak told a news conference. Polish authorities have linked some recent arsons or attempted arsons to Russian-sponsored agents. Polish, Belarusian and Ukrainian nationals are among those arrested in re...
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Far-right political parties have turned to social networking to help them target young people ahead of the European elections. Tom Vandendriessche, a Belgian MEP for the Vlaams Belang believes the tactic may work as the younger generation is losing trust in traditional parties. "I think that young people look at the future and the future looks grim for them. How could they have trust in these traditional parts, the Christian Democrats, the Social Democrats, the Liberal Democrats who have been governing us for decades and who have brought us into this mess of uncontrolled borders, of mass migra...
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