Their long-awaited in-custody interviews promised rare insights into Russian intelligence operations in this country.
NAZRAN, Russia -- The Russian intelligence service has blamed Chechen rebels for an explosion that killed a high-ranking official.
Some reports say that Britain's spy-catchers were alarmed after they noted her meeting with a known Russian intelligence officer in London.
Not only that, but our security correspondent said that some Russian intelligence officers were reappearing in London from 20 years ago.
Moscow has ended its affair with Fidel Castro, announcing last October it would shut down the last Russian intelligence outpost, in Cuba.
Key to understanding both governments' handling of the case is the sometimes uneasy relationship between the U.S. and Russian intelligence and law-enforcement agencies.
It follows Moscow's decision to expel US diplomat Ryan Fogle, who was accused of trying to recruit a Russian intelligence officer as a spy.
But all this has not stopped other Russian intelligence agencies from pursuing economic and military information in the West in many of the same old ways.
The Russian Navy could gain a Mediterranean base, but Russian intelligence would then lose the ability to mingle freely with Nato personnel, suggests the author, so it is swings and roundabouts.
The 10 suspects held in the US are accused of trying to blend into American society and cultivate contacts among policy makers in order to pass information on to Russian intelligence.
Yet Russian intelligence and the government obviously believe this.
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According to the charge sheet, the suspects are accused of passing confidential documents bought from a Dutch foreign ministry official and passing them to Russian intelligence services, German newspaper Die Welt reported.
One key witness the British officers hope to question is Andrei Lugovoi, a former Russian intelligence officer, who met with Litvinenko at a London hotel on the day he fell ill in November.
In hindsight, he said, he would like to have been told about the Federal Bureau of Investigation's concerns about Mr. Tsarnaev in 2011 when Russian intelligence officials first brought the young man to U.S. authorities' attention.
Among the evidence the prosecution says it will use against the former agent are letters to and from the Russian intelligence agency, a statement from his Swiss bank account and recordings of his conversations with the Russians.
Nigel West and his co-author, Oleg Tsarev, a former lieutenant colonel in Russian intelligence, have been able to use a collection of original papers and photocopies of what was, and often still is, highly classified British material and related documents.
Russian global intelligence operations are a well-resourced and highly developed instrument of state power.
The Russian FSB intelligence service told the FBI in 2011 about information that Tamerlan Tsarnaev was a follower of radical Islam, two law enforcement officials said Saturday.
Some of those convinced that Ms Zatuliveter is indeed a spy think the Russian foreign intelligence service, the SVR, recruited her only after she started working in London.
Gertz quotes John Shaw, the Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for International Technology Security, who contends - based on information from two reliable European intelligence services - that Russian troops and Iraqi intelligence "almost certainly" removed the missing material from the facility.
Mr Bout is thought to have knowledge of Russia's military and intelligence operations, and Russian diplomats fear the revelations he might make in open court, correspondents say.
Lindsey Graham of South Carolina led criticism of the administration's handling of the Russian reports -- questioning whether intelligence and law enforcement agencies properly shared information that could have prevented the April 15 bombings.
Lindsey Graham of South Carolina led criticism of the administration's handling of the Russian reports -- questioning whether intelligence and law enforcement agencies had properly shared information that could have prevented the April 15 bombings.
Across the river from Montgomery County, Thomas Jefferson High School in Alexandria, Va. offers Latin, Russian, Japanese, thermodynamics and artificial intelligence.
The United States exchanged 10 Russian agents who had been expelled for intelligence gathering for four individuals who had been incarcerated in Russia.
Lawyer Ben Emmerson, acting for Litvinenko's widow Marina, told the hearing that Litvinenko was working for the British intelligence service MI6 and had been tasked by MI6 with working also for the Spanish intelligence service as it investigated Russian mafia activities in Spain.
There have been other examples of Russian co-operation with the West over intelligence.
And leading members of Congress with access to intelligence reports have said if nothing else Russian documentation is insufficient to say with certainty that nuclear materials have not been stolen.
The presumption in most quarters seems to be that the Russian military, its supporting industrial complex and the intelligence community have backed Yeltsin over the parliament out of a preference for democracy and free market reform with which the President has generally been associated.
As Ma'ariv reported Friday, Russian advisors are involved in improving Syria's signals intelligence and electronic warfare capabilities.
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