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Earthquake of 5,5 points occurs near Honsu Island.
VLADIVOSTOK, July 27 (Itar-Tass) - There was an earthquake measuring 5.5 points near the coast of the Japanese Honshu Island on Tuesday.
According to the US Geological Survey, the epicentre of the earth tremor
was located 125 kilometres from the city of Morioka, 145 kilometres from
the city of Sendai, 180 kilometres from the city of Hachinohe and 430
kilometres from Tokyo.
The seismic focus was at a depth of 17.9 kilometres under the Pacific
Ocean. There have been no reports about the consequences of the earthquake
that was registered at 08:31, local time (03:31, Moscow time).
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.Canada authorities annul passport of Christopher Metsos.
OTTAWA, July 27 (Itar-Tass) - The Canadian authorities on Monday
annulled the passport issued in the name of Robert Christopher Metsos -
one of the persons charged in the recent case of espionage for Russia,
Passport Canada spokeswoman Veronique Robitaille said in Toronto.
The owner of this passport was detained by Cyprus police at Larnaca
airport on June 29 in accordance with an Interpol request. Later on the
same day the Larnaca district court released him on 20,000 euros bail
after he surrendered his passport. However, the next day Metsos
disappeared. According to information leaked to the press, he used the
documents of a Canadian who died many years ago.
According to the legislation in effect, passport is the property of
the Canadian government and can be revoked if a person provided false
information when he submits documents for passport registration and if
serious charges are brought against the passport owner. Passport Canada
has the right to cancel a passport only if it has trustworthy information
that such a measure is justified.
The Illegals Program was a United States Department of Justice name
given to a network of Russian sleeper agents under non-official cover
whose investigation of by the FBI culminated in a prisoner swap between
the Russia and the United States on July 9, 2010. The spies were planted
in the US presumably by the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (known by
its Russian abbreviation SVR) and were the target of a multi-year inquiry
by the US Federal Bureau of Investigation. The investigation culminated at
the end of June 2010 with the arrest of 10 individuals in the US and an
eleventh suspect in Cyprus. Ten sleeper agents were charged with "carrying
out long-term, 'deep-cover' assignments in the United States on behalf of
the Russian Federation." The suspect arrested in Cyprus skipped bail the
day after his arrest. A Russian national who had worked in Microsoft was
also implicated and deported.
Ten of the agents were flown on July 9, 2010 to Vienna soon after
pleading guilty to charges of failing to register as a representative of a
foreign government and were exchanged for four Russian nationals, 3 of
whom had been convicted and imprisoned by Russia on espionage (high
treason) charges.
On July 13, 2010, Russian intelligence sources were quoted as saying
that the deported Russian agents would undergo a rigorous series of tests,
including a lie detector, to establish whether any of them had acted as a
double agent.
The spy affair attracted media attention, including Chapman being
described as "glamorous" and US Vice President Joe Biden joking shortly
after the swap on a television chat show to comedian Jay Leno when asked
"Do we have any spies that hot?" by saying "Let me be clear. It wasn't my
idea to send her back."
On July 24, 2010, in the Crimea, Russian Prime Minister Putin told
reporters, without specifying the date, that he had met with the agents,
specifically acknowledging that Chapman was among them; he said that they
had had "a tough life" and been turned in as a result of "betrayal"; he
also sang with the agents to live music some songs, including "From Where
the Motherland Begins." Putin declined to evaluate their work saying that
it was not up to him to evaluate but up to specialists and the "ultimate
consumers of the information of such type, the Supreme Commander - the
president of the Russian Federation."
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According to the US Geological Survey, the epicentre of the earth tremor
was located 125 kilometres from the city of Morioka, 145 kilometres from
the city of Sendai, 180 kilometres from the city of Hachinohe and 430
kilometres from Tokyo.
The seismic focus was at a depth of 17.9 kilometres under the Pacific
Ocean. There have been no reports about the consequences of the earthquake
that was registered at 08:31, local time (03:31, Moscow time).
-0-
.Canada authorities annul passport of Christopher Metsos.
OTTAWA, July 27 (Itar-Tass) - The Canadian authorities on Monday
annulled the passport issued in the name of Robert Christopher Metsos -
one of the persons charged in the recent case of espionage for Russia,
Passport Canada spokeswoman Veronique Robitaille said in Toronto.
The owner of this passport was detained by Cyprus police at Larnaca
airport on June 29 in accordance with an Interpol request. Later on the
same day the Larnaca district court released him on 20,000 euros bail
after he surrendered his passport. However, the next day Metsos
disappeared. According to information leaked to the press, he used the
documents of a Canadian who died many years ago.
According to the legislation in effect, passport is the property of
the Canadian government and can be revoked if a person provided false
information when he submits documents for passport registration and if
serious charges are brought against the passport owner. Passport Canada
has the right to cancel a passport only if it has trustworthy information
that such a measure is justified.
The Illegals Program was a United States Department of Justice name
given to a network of Russian sleeper agents under non-official cover
whose investigation of by the FBI culminated in a prisoner swap between
the Russia and the United States on July 9, 2010. The spies were planted
in the US presumably by the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (known by
its Russian abbreviation SVR) and were the target of a multi-year inquiry
by the US Federal Bureau of Investigation. The investigation culminated at
the end of June 2010 with the arrest of 10 individuals in the US and an
eleventh suspect in Cyprus. Ten sleeper agents were charged with "carrying
out long-term, 'deep-cover' assignments in the United States on behalf of
the Russian Federation." The suspect arrested in Cyprus skipped bail the
day after his arrest. A Russian national who had worked in Microsoft was
also implicated and deported.
Ten of the agents were flown on July 9, 2010 to Vienna soon after
pleading guilty to charges of failing to register as a representative of a
foreign government and were exchanged for four Russian nationals, 3 of
whom had been convicted and imprisoned by Russia on espionage (high
treason) charges.
On July 13, 2010, Russian intelligence sources were quoted as saying
that the deported Russian agents would undergo a rigorous series of tests,
including a lie detector, to establish whether any of them had acted as a
double agent.
The spy affair attracted media attention, including Chapman being
described as "glamorous" and US Vice President Joe Biden joking shortly
after the swap on a television chat show to comedian Jay Leno when asked
"Do we have any spies that hot?" by saying "Let me be clear. It wasn't my
idea to send her back."
On July 24, 2010, in the Crimea, Russian Prime Minister Putin told
reporters, without specifying the date, that he had met with the agents,
specifically acknowledging that Chapman was among them; he said that they
had had "a tough life" and been turned in as a result of "betrayal"; he
also sang with the agents to live music some songs, including "From Where
the Motherland Begins." Putin declined to evaluate their work saying that
it was not up to him to evaluate but up to specialists and the "ultimate
consumers of the information of such type, the Supreme Commander - the
president of the Russian Federation."
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