by CBBSS | Sep 28, 2021 | Regional News
Turkish Justice Minister Bekir Bozdag said in a live television interview that 32,000 people have been formally arrested since the failed coup attempt in July, the New York Times reports. Bozdag said a total of 70,000 people have been processed and more arrests may...
by CBBSS | Sep 28, 2021 | Regional News
A Russian journalist took part in a vote rigging effort in which Putin’s United Russia party paid people to cast two separate votes in two separate polling stations. Denis Korotkov, a correspondent for St. Petersburg-based site Fontanka.ru, filmed the election...
by CBBSS | Sep 28, 2021 | Regional News
The EU is granting Bulgaria more than 100 million euros in emergency funding to deal with the migrant crisis, of which about 80 percent is slated for border security and surveillance, EU Observer reports. Migrant arrivals in Bulgaria are currently lower than they were...
by CBBSS | Sep 28, 2021 | Regional News
Ankara has fired 87 members of the National Intelligence Organization (MIT) over links to Fethullah Gulen, AFP reports. Another 54 members of the spy agency have been suspended. The firings and suspensions mark the first purge of the MIT since the failed coup attempt...
by CBBSS | Sep 27, 2021 | International News and Analysis
Mark Galeotti, of the Institute of International Relations, pens a piece in bne IntelliNews arguing Putin’s planned consolidation of the Russian intelligence agencies will likely result in a focus on keeping Putin in power, rather than doing espionage work that...
