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FINNISH HISTORIANS: FORMER FINNISH FOREIGN MINISTER AN OPERATIVE OF RUSSIAN INTELLIGENCE

Tuomioja was named as Minister of Foreign Affairs in 2000. Rusi shows in his book that like former president Mauno Koivisto, Tuomioja was also reluctant to stand up against Serbian dictator Slobodan Milosevic. When the negotiation process for the Lisbon Treaty took place, Tuomioja’s role in downplaying the security guarantee based on EU membership was significant. “Not a specially meritious stateman’s act”, historian Jukka Tarkka has stated.

When The European Union made decision to place sanctions against Russia in 2014, Tuomioja expressed his dissenting opinion in the governmental committee. He hoped that Finland would leave an option to oppose the sanctions if a ceasefire held, no matter how other EU countries acted.

After leaving his post as Foreign Minister, Tuomioja has paid private visits to Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and chaired a network called Historians Without Borders.

“Tuomioja can be considered as an operative of Russian intelligence after the Zavidovo leak for his positions and openly stated Mareyev-connection”, Rusi and Korhonen write in their book.

A recent UpNorth article analyzed some of the correspondence and relationship between Tuomioja and pro-Russian adjunct professor Johan Bäckman.

Internet traffic coming into and out of Apple, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, and other companies was briefly redirected through a Russian provider on Wednesday, in what appears to have been a deliberate move.

Russian espionage: Russian diplomats, undoubtedly SVR officers, caught trying to farm the Tunisian civil registry for false identities.

Russia has shown a more than neighborly interest, for example, in Russian-speaking airsoft players, as well as members of martial arts and shooting clubs, in Latvia and Estonia, two countries with large Russian-speaking minorities. Russian trainers with military connections — even special forces connections — have joined some clubs in those countries as trainers, teaching what one observer described as “small unit tactics.”

Vene palgasõduritest Süürias kirjutanud ajakirjanik kukkus rõdult alla ja suri

32-aastane Maksim Borodin toimetati haiglasse neljapäeval pärast seda, kui ta kukkus Jekaterinburgis alla oma viiendal korrusel asunud kodu rõdult. Eile suri ta haiglas kukkumisel saadud vigastustesse.

Jääb ebaselgeks, mis asjaoludel Borodin rõdult alla kukkus, kuid ametivõimud peavad tema surma enesetapuks. Piirkonna politsei esindaja sõnul oli Borodini korteri uks seestpoolt lukus ja miski ei viidanud sellele, et uks oleks jõuga avatud. Ta lisas, et ajakirjaniku võtmed leiti korterist ja enesetapukirja ei leitud.

Borodin töötas uudisteportaalis Novy Den ja kajastas korruptsiooni ning kuritegevust.

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The Russian nationalist motorcycle club Night Wolves, financially supported by the Russian state, opened a branch in the village of Dolná Krupá, near the regional city of Trnava, in late June, the Pravda daily wrote on July 16.

The information was published on the Russian Embassy to Slovakia's website, whose representatives attended the event. The club will be open to the public in September.

The Foreign Affairs Ministry is concerned about the decision, claiming that the opinions of some of the club’s members are harmful and their activities should be monitored. The Slovak Information Service (SIS) intelligence agency has become interested in their activities, too.

However, the Interior Ministry does not plan to take action against the bikers for now, minister Denisa Saková said, as quoted by the daily.

After a public outcry, police on Friday closed a summer youth camp on a mountain in western Serbia organized by Russian and Serbian far-right groups.

The camp on Mount Zlatibor included children as young as 12 dressed in military uniforms who were being trained by Russian and Serbian instructors on how to use guns and knives. A similar exercise was undertaken last year in Russia.

Boris Reitschuster, author of Putin’s Secret War, says that the Kremlin is “actively using the old agent network” that the East German intelligence service set up in the West during the Cold War not only to achieve specific foreign policy goals like North Stream but also to set the tone in German discussions about Russia.

Despite the received opinion, he tells US-based Russian journalist Kseniya Kirillova that the Stasi network “was not unmasked after the end of the Cold War. Yes, the archives were opened, but their informant concerned mostly the Stasi agent network in East Germany” (ru.krymr.com/a/nemeckiy-zhurnalist-o-rossiyskoy-propagande-v-germanii/29461027.html).

“As far as the agents from among the citizens of West Germany is concerned, Reitschuster says, “information about them was taken back to Russia, something Putin has openly acknowledged. One is speaking about several thousand people including politicians and generals. According to some, up to 20,000 residents of Western Germany were Stasi informers.”

Antonina Zimina from Kalniningrad is accused of spying for Latvia

В начале июля жительницу Калининграда Антонину Зимину задержали по подозрению в госизмене. Впоследствии суд заключил ее под стражу — она до сих пор сидит в СИЗО «Лефортово». Как выяснил «Новый Калининград», Зимину обвиняют в госизмене в пользу Латвии — по версии следствия, женщина якобы раскрыла действующего сотрудника ФСБ латвийской разведке. Защита Зиминой считает выдвинутые в ее адрес обвинения необоснованными.