time has come for me to change the direction of my work.” He said he had a new role: The Federal Security Service, known as the F.S.B., had appointed him to lead a group of hackers who would work for the security service, which he called a “special battalion for information security.”
Russian lawyers say, the decision about where to send the accused resides with a government minister. That opens the prospect of the United States’ being powerless to stop the return to Russia of a suspect who may be able to offer valuable information on Russian meddling in the election. (
request with the Spanish authorities for a crime they said Mr. Levashov had committed in Russia years ago.〜 This was by no means the first time that Russia had filed a competing extradition request/チェコ Yevgeny A. Nikulin/ In accordance with extradition treaties in all three countries,(