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| Brothers face Russia spy charges | |
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| Russian security officials say they have arrested and charged two brothers with links to British interests. | Russian security officials say they have arrested and charged two brothers with links to British interests. |
| Ilya Zaslavsky is a manager at the TNK-BP oil joint venture, his brother Alexander head of the British Council's Moscow Alumni club. | Ilya Zaslavsky is a manager at the TNK-BP oil joint venture, his brother Alexander head of the British Council's Moscow Alumni club. |
| The two, who have joint US and Russian citizenship, were gathering classified data for foreign firms, the FSB said. | The two, who have joint US and Russian citizenship, were gathering classified data for foreign firms, the FSB said. |
| The arrests are the latest in a series of incidents which has caused serious frictions between Russia and the UK. | The arrests are the latest in a series of incidents which has caused serious frictions between Russia and the UK. |
| British Council work was curtailed last year in a row over the death of ex-security agent Alexander Litvinenko. | British Council work was curtailed last year in a row over the death of ex-security agent Alexander Litvinenko. |
| 'Material proof' | |
| The Moscow offices of the British oil giant were raided by the authorities on Wednesday. | |
| Russia's security agency, the FSB, has confirmed that the raids were related to the Zaslavsky case. | |
| "During the raid, material proof confirming the industrial espionage was found and confiscated," it said in a statement. | |
| This included business cards of foreign military agencies and the CIA, it said. |