Free 'spy', Russia tells Austria
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Moscow demands the release of a Russian space agency official who was arrested in Austria on suspicion of spying.
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Russia's spy service said on Tuesday it had had no hand in the poisoning of former Russian agent Alexander Litvinenko -- and wished him a speedy recovery.
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The United Nations demanded Belarus free an American arrested while working on a United Nations project in the ex-Soviet republic, but the country's spy service on Thursday insisted the man was not protected by ...
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Sudan is set to free U.S. reporter Paul  Salopek, who was arrested early last month and then charged  with espionage, the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. said on Friday.
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One of the key witnesses in the radiation poisoning death of former Russian agent Alexander Litvinenko has told a Russian news agency that he has left Russia to go skiing in Europe.
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HAMBURG - President Vladimir Putin has for the first time showed his readiness to involve Germany and the European Union in the restoration of order in the wartorn Chechen republic, the German Press Agency reported Monday.
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German police said a Russian contact of poisoned former spy Alexander Litvinenko had left a trail of polonium 210 in Hamburg as his widow accused Moscow of involvement in his murder.
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VIENNA/MOSCOW  - Russia said on Thursday it had protested to Austria over the arrest of a Russian space agency official on suspicion of espionage.
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MOSCOW -- Russia has restricted rights to such an extent that it has joined the countries that are ''not free" for the first time since the 1991 fall of the Soviet Union, Freedom House said yesterday, marking Moscow's march away from the Western democracies it has embraced as diplomatic partners.
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"What is Schengen? It is not criminality, it is not uncertainty, it is not fear, it is a big space of security and stability"  By Martin DokoupilPETRZALKA, Slovakia  - Austria's chancellor and Slovakia's prime minister sawed through a red and white frontier barrier on Thursday in symbolic preparation for nine new countries joining the EU's border-free zone at midnight.Austria's Alfred Gusenbauer and Slovakia's Robert Fico stood either side of the pole on their common frontier working a double-handled saw, heralding what many see as a final lifting of the Iron Curtain between the former Soviet bloc and the West. Read more
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Russia's chief prosecutor ruled out on  Tuesday any extraditions to Britain over the poisoning in  London of Russian ex-spy Alexander Litvinenko but said he would  help British police in their inquiries in Moscow.
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MOSCOW -- Russia has refused Britain's request to extradite a businessman accused in last year's fatal poisoning of former KGB agent Alexander Litvinenko, prosecutors said yesterday.
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RUSSIAN President Vladimir Putin and German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder adopted a resolution today saying the hostage seizure at a Russian school marked a new dimension of the threat posed to all humankind by ...
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Text of the statement dictated by former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko before he died and released by his friends on Friday:
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The leader of Our Ukraine having his course of treatment at the moment in Vienna had been secured by Yulia Tymoshenko.
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MOSCOW, Oct. 2 -- Georgia handed over four Russian military officers it arrested last week on espionage charges to an international mediator Monday, in a move to defuse tension with Russia that has been escalating since the men's detention five days ago.
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The Russian Prosecutor General's Office has sent a warrant to the Czech Republic for the extradition of Russian citizen Yevgeny Dogayev.Comment