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Battleground Vienna: Austrian intelligence officer convicted of spying for Russia belongs to a long tradition

Egisto Ott is no James Bond. But the stories the 63-year-old Austrian told a Viennese jury recently would make good plotlines. Ott worked as an intelligence officer in Austria’s now-defunct Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution and Counterterrorism. He was also moonlighting for the Russians.

The Conversation

Austria expels three Russian embassy staff after ‘forest of antennae’ discovered

Austrian foreign minister says Russian diplomatic mission in Vienna was being used for illicit collection of data

The Guardian - UK

Austrian court acquits ex-official Johannes Peterlik over Novichok document leak

Prosecutors had accused Peterlik of requesting "without official necessity" a classified report in 2018 that included the formula for Novichok, a military-grade nerve agent developed in the Soviet Union.

Euronews

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6 Bulgarians convicted in UK of spying for Russia get prison terms up to nearly 11 years

Six Bulgarian nationals have been sentenced in a London court to up to nearly 11 years in prison for spying for Russia

The Independent UK

Six Bulgarians jailed after spying for Russia in UK

Ringleader Orlin Roussev sentenced to nearly 11 years for his role in operations that put lives and national security at risk

The Guardian - UK

Six Bulgarians jailed for spying for Russia

The Old Bailey heard that the spy ring was directed by alleged Russian agent Jan Marsalek, an Austrian businessman.

Evening Standard

Russian spy ring operating on ‘industrial scale’ from British seaside guesthouse jailed for total of 50 years

The six-strong cell of Bulgarian nationals spent almost three years passing secrets to Russia

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Spies for Russia embedded in the UK jailed for more than 50 years over operations for Putin

Six spies have been jailed over espionage activities

Evening Standard

Honeytrap Russian agent 'victim of lies by narcissist lover', says mother

Katrin Ivanova is due to be sentenced alongside six fellow Russian spies

Evening Standard

Female Russian spy ‘world away from classic George Blake case’, court told

The six Bulgarian nationals are to be sentenced on Monday.

Evening Standard

Spymaster at heart of UK network boasted he could supply ‘nukes’, court hears

Six Bulgarians who were found guilty of spying on an industrial scale are due to be sentenced at the Old Bailey.

Evening Standard

Journalist targeted by Russian spy ring said ordeal was ‘deeply detabilising’

Bellingcat investigative journalist Christo Grozev had a victim impact statement read to the court on Thursday.

Evening Standard

Six Bulgarians Face Long UK Jail Terms For Spying For Russia

Six Bulgarians, members of a sophisticated spy network dubbed "The Minions", were before court Wednesday for sentencing, facing up to 14 years in prison for spying for Russia.

International Business Times

Sentencing begins for Russian spy ring who operated undercover in Britain for three years

‘Honeytrap’ agents Katrin Ivanova and Vanya Gaberova, along with competitive swimmer Tihomir Ivanov Ivanchev, were found guilty of spying on an ‘industrial scale’

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The Independent UK

Austria says it has uncovered a Russian-steered campaign to spread disinformation about Ukraine

Austrian authorities say they uncovered a Russian-steered campaign aimed at spreading disinformation about Ukraine following the detention in December of a Bulgarian woman accused of spying for Russia

The Guardian - UK

‘They came across as muppets’: Christo Grozev on being target of Bulgarian spy ring

Investigative journalist called ‘modern-day Sherlock’ by Alexei Navalny on unsettling photos, reprisals and being exiled from Vienna

Evening Standard

Spy claims by Kremlin against British diplomat and spouse of another in Moscow are 'baseless,' says No10

The timing of the expulsions raises suspicions of a tit-for-tat move by the Kremlin

Evening Standard

‘They wanted to kill me’, says lawyer targeted by Russian spy ring

Kirill Kachur, 33, was being hunted by the team who had been tasked with kidnapping him and sending him back to Moscow, either dead or alive.

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The Guardian - UK

‘Burn him alive on the street’: the Russian journalist targeted in UK by spy ring

Old Bailey trial of six Bulgarians charged with espionage has provided chilling evidence that Kremlin wanted reporter to be killed

Evening Standard

Journalist targeted by ‘clumsy’ Russian spies says he is ‘lucky to be alive’

Roman Dobrokhotov, an investigative journalist, said the spies were ‘clumsy’ but still ‘dangerous’.

Al Jazeera

Three Bulgarians found guilty of spying for Russia from UK base

Six Bulgarians carried out sophisticated operations over three years, including spying on Ukrainian soldiers in Germany.

Evening Standard

Russian spy ring facing jail for one of ‘most complex’ operations on UK soil

The network had engaged in surveillance and intelligence operations in which spies were referred to as Despicable Me’s yellow sidekicks.

Evening Standard

Bulgarian spy ring a ‘treasure trove’ of evidence about Vladimir Putin’s espionage operations in the West

Intelligence historian Trevor Barnes has followed the dramatic Russo-Bulgarian espionage case since the arrests of Moscow’s agents in the UK in February 2023

Evening Standard

An anatomy of a spy ring – from lashes queen to ugly-but-charming Lothario

The players in one of the most sophisticated Russian spy rings ever uncovered on British soil.

Evening Standard

Russian spy ring dubbed 'The Minions' guilty of 'industrial scale' espionage on UK soil

Russian proxy spy ring facing years behind bars for one of the ‘largest and most complex’ enemy operations to be uncovered in Britain

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