Month: September 2024

1. After Putin dodges arrest in Mongolia, the Kremlin says no one can hold Russia back  CNBC
2. Mongolia ignores ICC demands to arrest Putin during state visit  Fox News
3. How War Crimes Charges Limits Putin’s Travels, or Not  Bloomberg
4. Mongolia ignores an international warrant for Putin’s arrest, giving him a red-carpet welcome  ABC News
5. ‘Mongolia decided to blatantly violate its obligations’ by receiving Putin, says Ukrainian Foreign Minister  CNN

1. Grenfell Tower fire: UK inquiry blames avoidable deaths on incompetence and greed  Reuters UK
2. All 72 deaths from Grenfell Tower fire ‘avoidable,’ final report says  The Washington Post
3. ‘The state let you down’: Rishi Sunak apologies to Grenfell families – video  The Guardian
4. Deregulation and Dishonesty Led to Deadly Grenfell Fire, Inquiry Finds  The New York Times
5. Grenfell Tower fire inquiry blames U.K. authorities, firms and industry  NBC News

1. CNN polls across six battlegrounds find Georgia and Pennsylvania are key toss-ups  CNN
2. Harris, Trump in close races in key swing states: Polling  The Hill
3. Analysis | The 2 key states that could decide the 2024 election  The Washington Post
4. Trump and Harris in toss-up races in key swing states Pennsylvania, Georgia, Nevada: poll  Fox News
5. Kamala Harris will win US election, Telegraph poll predicts  The Telegraph

Russian spies are back—and more dangerous than ever  The Economist

Who is Paul Whelan, the former US Marine who Russia branded a spy?  BBC.com

Russian spies, lies and sabotage are coming to America  The Hill

Germany arrests 2 alleged Russian spies accused of scouting U.S. military facilities for sabotage  CBS News

Stop Wasting Captured Spies  Foreign Policy

FBI agents reveal how they tracked and stopped a Russian spy ring operating in the U.S., tasked with gathering government secrets.

Russian espionage in the United States has occurred since at least the Cold War (as the Soviet Union), and likely well before. According to the United States government, by 2007 it had reached Cold War levels.