Russia is busily enlarging its spying network in Europe along the former Soviet KGB model because of the Ukraine crisis, Germany's domestic intelligence chief warns.
A German court on Tuesday jailed a married couple for spying for the Russian secret services for more than 20 years in one of the country's biggest espionage cases since the Cold War.
A married couple accused of spying for the Russian secret services for more than 20 years went on trial in Germany on Tuesday, in one of the biggest espionage court cases since the Cold War.
The two alleged Russian spies arrested last week are suspected of stealing secrets from German car manufacturers, after it emerged one of them worked in the auto industry for the past 20 years.
German Federal Police have arrested a man and woman on suspicion of having spied for Russia's foreign intelligence service for over two decades, according to a Saturday news report.
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin arrived in Germany Friday to a mixed bag: frosty talks in Berlin over the gas crisis and a medal in Dresden where he served as a KGB officer in the 1980s.