
“My informant put papers in my hand – and suddenly the room started to shake.”
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Evan Gershkovich was convicted of espionage in Russia and released in a prisoner exchange after 16 months in prison.
Evan Gershkovich was convicted of espionage in Russia. After 16 months in prison, he was released through a prisoner exchange. Here he tells how he fell into the trap of Vladimir Putin's secret service.
An interview by Ann-Dorit Boy.
According to state media, the Russian domestic secret service FSB has arrested a journalist from the Japanese newspaper Hokkaido Shimbun on Sakhalin because he is said to have collected information about the participation of Kuril Island residents in the war against Ukraine. The man was arrested shortly before his planned departure, taken to Moscow and sentenced to almost two months in pre-trial detention. The arrest comes amid strained Russian-Japanese relations due to the Kuril Islands dispute and Japan's support of Western sanctions against Russia.
Danish Justice Minister Nicolai Wammen has extended temporary controls at the German-Danish border by six months until May 11, 2027 due to an ongoing serious security situation. This emerges from a statement from the Danish Ministry of Justice. The measure comes despite existing Schengen rules, which fundamentally exclude internal border controls.
South African Nobel Peace Prize winner Navi Pillay has described US sanctions against the International Criminal Court as an illegal retaliation by Washington after she was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. She criticized the sanctions in response to the prize not being awarded to Donald Trump and called for a lesson in international law for the US president.

Danish Justice Minister Nicolai Wammen has extended temporary controls at the German-Danish border by six months until May 11, 2027 due to an ongoing serious security situation. The decision is based on ongoing terror and sabotage threats as well as the migrant situation in the Spanish enclave of Ceuta.

Former head of Israel's Shin Bet domestic intelligence service, Ronen Bar, has filed a defamation lawsuit against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. He accuses Netanyahu of claiming that Bar knew about the danger before the Hamas attack on October 7, 2023 and did not inform him. Bar denies this and says he warned the prime minister's office about the attack at least 20 times, including at 3:55 a.m. on the morning of October 7. Netanyahu denies the accusation and claims that Bar had his home phone number and could have called in time.

EU states want to assure Ukrainian President Zelenskyj of their full support at their summit in Brussels and take a stand against US signals under Trump by reaffirming political and military aid to Ukraine and criticizing an agreement between Trump and Putin on diesel imports.