A view shows the headquarters of the Federal Security Service (FSB), the successor agency to the KGB, and Lubyanka Square in front of it in central Moscow on February 25, 2021. - Three decades after Russians toppled the statue of Soviet secret police founder Felix Dzerzhinsky, they are voting on whether to restore it outside of the domestic intelligence headquarters in central Moscow. (Photo by Alexander NEMENOV / AFP) (Photo by ALEXANDER NEMENOV/AFP via Getty Images)
  • Brazil has denied the U.S. request to extradite alleged Russian spy Sergey Cherkasov, as the Supreme Court had already approved Russia’s extradition request.
  • Cherkasov will remain imprisoned in Brazil for now, and his extradition to Russia will be executed after the final judgment of all his cases in Brazil.
  • U.S. authorities allege Cherkasov was part of the Russian “illegals” program, using a false identity in Brazil to attend graduate school in Washington and share information with his Russian handlers.  
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