Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said that his country would not expel Russian diplomats based on an allegation. He told journalists that just because some countries took a step based on an allegation, we don't have to decide to take the same step.  Meanwhile, the Russian Foreign ...

London:Sergei Skripal, the former Russian spy poisoned in Britain, wrote to President Vladimir Putin several years ago asking for a pardon for selling secrets to British intelligence, a friend told the BBC on Saturday. Vladimir Timoshkov said his old school friend — who had moved to Britain ...

MOSCOW - Vladimir Putin, Born 7 October 1952 in Leningrad — now St Petersburg. Studies law and joins KGB after university Serves as a spy in communist East Germany — some ex-KGB comrades later get top state posts in Putin era In the 1990s was top aide to St Petersburg mayor Anatoly ...

MOSCOW: The Czech Republic has rejected Russian claims that it was one of four countries to have manufactured the nerve agent used to poison Sergei Skripal and his daughter. Czech Foreign Minister Martin Stropnicky was responding to claims made by Russian foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria ...

London:Britain was to hold a second meeting of its national emergencies committee on Saturday in response to a nerve agent attack on a Russian former spy. Home Secretary Amber Rudd was to chair the meeting of the committee, known as COBRA, at 1500 GMT to receive updates on the police case, the ...

London:British police hunting the perpetrators behind a nerve agent attack on a Russian former spy are examining more than 200 pieces of evidence, London said after a meeting of the UK's national emergencies committee. Counter-terror police had identified more than 240 witnesses, the Home Office ...

Vilnius: Lithuanian authorities on Thursday said they had arrested three citizens of the Baltic state on suspicion of spying for Russia, the latest in a string of espionage cases on NATO's eastern flank.The men were arrested in December and have since been held in custody pending trial in two ...

Washington: Central Intelligence Agency Director Mike Pompeo on Thursday defended meetings in Washington with top Russian espionage counterparts despite one being under US sanctions. Pompeo told Senator Chuck Schumer in a letter that the meetings reportedly held last week with Sergey Naryshkin, the ...

WASHINGTON - CIA Director Mike Pompeo on Thursday defended the practice of meeting with Russian spy chiefs, following reports that top U.S. intelligence officials last week met a Kremlin spymaster who is under U.S. sanctions. "We periodically meet with our Russian intelligence counterparts for ...

WASHINGTON: Russia’s foreign spy chief — who is under US sanctions — met last week outside Washington with US intelligence officials, two US sources said, confirming a disclosure that intensified political infighting over probes into Moscow’s alleged meddling in the 2016 US ...