Mari Saito

2 weeks ago | usatoday.com | Mari Saito |Anna Koper |Anton Zverev |Filipp Lebedev |Polina Nikolskaya

WARSAW, June 12 - The Canadian teenager was getting anxious. It was May 2024, and he was in Copenhagen, running out of money after leaving Moscow a week earlier. He’d booked the cheapest room he could find in the Danish capital, but the hostel was still more expensive than he’d expected. The teen, Laken Pavan, opened Telegram to type out a message to his handler in Russia’s Federal Security Service , which runs the country’s spy operations and is known by its acronym FSB.

1 month ago | wimz.com | Mari Saito |Maria Tsvetkova

By Mari Saito and Maria TsvetkovaBERLIN (Reuters) -The European Union on Tuesday announced sanctions against three pro-Russia activists whose activities promoting the Kremlin’s agenda inside Germany were first revealed in a Reuters investigation in 2023. Since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Elena Kolbasnikova and her husband Max Schlund have been organising pro-Kremlin rallies in Germany to urge Berlin to abandon its military support for Kyiv.

1 month ago | kfgo.com | Mari Saito |Maria Tsvetkova

By Mari Saito and Maria TsvetkovaBERLIN (Reuters) -The European Union on Tuesday announced sanctions against three pro-Russia activists whose activities promoting the Kremlin’s agenda inside Germany were first revealed in a Reuters investigation in 2023. Since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Elena Kolbasnikova and her husband Max Schlund have been organising pro-Kremlin rallies in Germany to urge Berlin to abandon its military support for Kyiv.

1 month ago | reuters.com | Mari Saito |Maria Tsvetkova

BERLIN, May 20 (Reuters) - The European Union on Tuesday announced sanctions against three pro-Russia activists whose activities promoting the Kremlin's agenda inside Germany were first revealed in a Reuters investigation in 2023. Since Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Elena Kolbasnikova and her husband Max Schlund have been organising pro-Kremlin rallies in Germany to urge Berlin to abandon its military support for Kyiv. Sign up here.

Mar 20, 2025 | japantimes.co.jp | Erin Banco |Mari Saito

Several U.S. national security agencies have halted work on a coordinated effort to counter Russian sabotage, disinformation and cyberattacks, easing pressure on Moscow as the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump pushes Russia to end its war in Ukraine. Former U.S. President Joe Biden last year ordered his national security team to establish working groups to monitor the issue amid warnings from U.S. intelligence that Russia was escalating a shadow war against Western nations.