Overview
- The U.S. Department of Justice issued an indictment in mid‑September charging five alleged agents with conspiring to fund and carry out assassinations and attacks in the United States and Europe.
- Garry Kasparov said U.S. and Lithuanian security services told him this week that his life and that of Ivan Tyutrin are “in danger,” and Tyutrin says Lithuania warned him to leave his home immediately and abandon his car.
- The DOJ said the network tried this summer to assassinate “an important Russian dissident” in the United States but did not publicly name the intended target.
- Prosecutors identified one suspect as former FSB colonel Yuri Khrameev and his son Kirill, and said the other alleged operatives include two Cubans and a Venezuelan; U.S. authorities say the suspects are at large.
- Kasparov and Tyutrin founded the Free Russia Forum in 2016 and Russia labeled the group a “terrorist” organization in 2025, a designation that helps explain Moscow’s hostile posture toward exiles and raises the prospect of tighter protection and political fallout for host countries.