Section: Newsweek (USA)
NATO, Swedish Fighters Scrambled to Intercept Russian Plane
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – NATO and Swedish fighter jets were scrambled to intercept a Russian intelligence-gathering plane that briefly entered Estonian airspace on Tuesday, the alliance said on Wednesday. The Estonian Foreign Ministry called the Russian ambassador to the ministry and gave him a protest note over the incursion, the Estonian...
Ukrainian Intelligence Seize Arms Cache as They Uncover ‘Russian’ Plot to Attack Kiev
Russian special forces plotted a series of armed attacks against Ukrainian cabinet ministers and several other targets in Ukraine’s capital city of Kiev this week, according to a spokesperson for Ukraine’s counter-intelligence services (SSU), after a weapons cache was uncovered. The explosive allegations come ahead of parliamentary...
More ‘Foreign Underwater Activity’ Sighted Off of Sweden
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) – Sweden’s military is working on two new observations that could be evidence of suspected “foreign underwater activity” near the country’s capital, a senior naval officer said on Tuesday. Swedish forces have been scouring the sea off Stockholm since Friday, after what the military called three...
The ‘Russian Submarine’ in Swedish Waters Isn’t the Only Unwelcome Visitor in the Baltic Sea
Last week Sweden received a decidedly unwelcome visitor. Following a Russian-language phone call between the Stockholm archipelago and the Russian city of Kaliningrad, intercepted by Sweden’s FRA signals intelligence agency, the Swedish military discovered what it believes was a Russian submarine just outside Stockholm. Though Russia denied...
Ukraine Brings in Law to Try Fugitive Yanukovich in Absentia
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, in a move to head off discontent before an election, signed a law on Tuesday that will allow ousted leader Viktor Yanukovich to be tried by court in his absence for crimes carried out while he was in power. Poroshenko and his pro-Western government, who are seeking a strong mandate in a parliamentary election...
The Russian Submarine in Swedish Waters Isn’t the Only Unwelcome Visitor in the Baltic Sea
Last week Sweden received a decidedly unwelcome visitor. Following a -Russian-language phone call between the Stockholm archipelago and the Russian city of Kaliningrad, intercepted by Sweden’s FRA signals intelligence agency, the Swedish military discovered what it believes was a Russian submarine just outside Stockholm. Though Russia...
Total CEO de Margerie Killed in Moscow as Jet Hits Snow Plough
The chief executive of French oil major Total, Christophe de Margerie, was killed when his private jet collided with a snow plough as it was taking off from Moscow’s Vnukovo airport on Monday night. De Margerie’s death leaves a void at the top of one of the world’s biggest listed oil firms at a difficult time for the industry as...
Not Lovin’ It: Russia Investigates More Than 200 McDonald’s
Russian officials are investigating more than 200 McDonald’s restaurants—nearly half of the fast-food chain’s locations in the country—in what many analysts see as retaliation against Western-backed sanctions. The probes into the chain’s hygiene and finance practices by the Rospotrebnadzor, the Russian government’s...
Polish Ex-Minister: Putin Offered to Divide Ukraine With Poland in 2008
WARSAW (Reuters) – Poland’s parliamentary speaker, Radoslaw Sikorski, has been quoted as saying that Russian President Vladimir Putin proposed to Poland’s then leader in 2008 that they divide Ukraine between themselves. Sikorski, who until September served as Poland’s foreign minister, was quoted telling U.S. website...
Sweden’s Massive Search for Russian Sub Shows ‘Cold War’ Fears Are Back
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) – It has all the makings of a Cold War thriller — an emergency military deployment with stealth ships and helicopters hunting for a foreign submarine in the Stockholm archipelago. Grainy photographs of a mysterious vessel. Sightings of a black-clad man wading in shallow coastal waters. Whether it was caused by...
