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...well, a U.S. embassy official said today. The American was detained Wednesday in an operation by Russia's Federal Security Service. Russian officials alleged he had developed contacts with Russian scientists in efforts to steal state secrets...

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Two suspects questioned in deadly Moscow blast

...here of a new terror-bombing campaign. The Federal Security Service, the main domestic intelligence agency, said...suspects) were behind this terrorist act," Federal Security Service investigator Vladimir Pronichev said. Authorities...

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...Russia's legal system. Pope, a retired Navy officer from State College, Pa., was arrested April 3 by Russia's Federal Security Service on charges that he tried to buy plans for a high-speed Russian torpedo, the Shkval. He faces up to 20 years...

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Russia sentences U.S. businessman to 20 years on espionage charges

...had demanded the maximum sentence and $250 million in damages to the Russian defense industry. Pope's lawyers and family accused the court of bias in favor of the prosecutor and the Federal Security Service, which initiated the case.

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Russia frees American student Tobin

...from Connecticut was arrested in January amid strained U.S.-Russian relations, which were exacerbated by Federal Security Service claims that Tobin was a spy in training. No espionage charges were filed and Tobin said he was framed on the...

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Large U.S. military presence in the Persian Gulf stands ready for possible retaliation

...Colin Powell. "The chance of hitting bin Laden is zero," Nikolai Kovalyov, the former head of Russia's Federal Security Service, warned last week. The Soviet Union, at the time a superpower, pulled out of Afghanistan after losing a war...

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AFGHANISTAN

...out large-scale bombing of Afghanistan would be a mistake," Nikolai Kovalyov, former head of the Russian Federal Security Service, a successor agency to the KGB, said in an interview in Moscow. "We must learn from the lessons of history...

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Chechens holding about 600 hostages in Moscow set deadline to begin killing

...province in the Caucasus where war has raged for most of the last decade. About an hour earlier, the head of the Federal Security Service, Nikolai Patrushev, said the approximately 50 rebels' lives would be guaranteed for the freedom of all hostages...

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Russian panel advises pardon for U.S. prisoner

...International, which specializes in studying foreign maritime equipment. At his Moscow trial, Russia's Federal Security Service said he had illegally obtained classified plans for a high-speed underwater torpedo, the Shkval. On Thursday...

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Tit-for-tat: Russia to expel 50 U.S. diplomats

...underwater torpedo. Moscow claims foreign intelligence agents have intensified their work in Russia, and the Federal Security Service, the main successor to the Soviet-era KGB, has called for increased vigilance. The campaign has reached...

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