According to media reports, a study of potentials of several countries in the field of information warfare has been conducted by the US Homeland Security.

German prosecutors are investigating whether two Russian dissidents living in Berlin have been poisoned.

  Earlier this month, the German weekly Focus reported that doctors had detected high levels of mercury in the blood of Viktor and Marina Kalashnikov.

A young Russian woman working for a British lawmaker is facing deportation after security services detained her on suspicion of espionage, the Sunday Times reported on Sunday.

  The paper reported that Katia Zatuliveter, 25, secretly worked for the Russian intelligence as a "sleeper" agent.

Putin knew (and therefore ordered - KC) about the radiation terrorist operation in London to murder the Russian dissident Alexander Litvinenko, Washington's top diplomat in Europe testified in secret conversations in Paris, reports The Guardian.