I did not name a single religious organisation in my speech, nor did I use a single religious book, and did not name a single religious figure apart from Christ and Buddha,? he said. A yoga teacher in Russia has been charged with illegal missionary activity under a controversial new law designed to fight terrorism. According to the law?s definition of missionary activity, it is necessary for the person conducting missionary activity to call for [people] to join some religious group,? he said. In August, a follower of Hare Krishna in southern Russia was charged with illegal missionary activity for telling passersby on the street about his beliefs and handing out literature. His comments won him fans described as ?Medvedev?s Girls?, who performed exercises on Red Square to promote yoga.

German police have detained two people after a series of raids against far-right suspects accused of plotting attacks on refugees, Jews and police officers. Another suspect was believed to have offered assistance to the group, including by acquiring weapons. According to the domestic intelligence service, the Reichsb?rger movement has about 10,000 members. ?The Reichsb?rger group ? continues to win new followers,? the domestic security chief, Hans-Georg Maa?en, told the DPA, voicing concern about the ?increased aggressiveness? of its followers. Most Reichsb?rger members believe in the continued existence of the German empire (Reich) and many refuse to pay taxes, social security contributions and fines owed to the state.

A senior official in the Russian cyberintelligence department that American officials say oversaw last year?s election hacking has been arrested in Moscow on charges of treason, a Russian newspaper reported Wednesday. The arrest raised the possibility that Mr. Mikhailov and Mr. Stoyanov had interfered in this cooperation. Mr. Mikhailov served in the F.S.B.?s Center for Information Security, the agency?s cyberintelligence branch, which has been implicated in the American election hacking. In another indication of high-level turmoil over cyberintelligence issues within the security agency, Kommersant reported on Jan. 13 that the director of the Center for Information Security, Andrei Gerasimov, would be fired. The newspaper article, in Kommersant, which cited unidentified sources in Moscow?s technology industry and the F.S.B., said the treason charges related to work on criminal hacking investigations.

Yevgeniy Nikulin, 29, faces extradition requests from both countries after being detained by Czech police on an Interpol arrest warrant issued by US authorities. Nikulin, a Russian citizen, was arrested in a restaurant in Prague on 5 October shortly after arriving in the city during a holiday with his girlfriend. Facebook Twitter Pinterest One theory is Nikulin ? even if not personally involved in the election hacking ? may know other hackers who were. ?He is unhappy about being detained for a long time in a foreign country and about the accusations against him. Adam Kopecky, Nikulin?s Czech lawyer, said his client denied both the US and Russian charges and suggested he had become a political pawn.

(Photo by Michael Debets/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images)Police officers stand on the side at the opening rally. Police officers stand on the side at the opening rally. A statement from the public prosecutor`s office in Graz, one of the cities involved, said those detained were suspected of involvement with ISIS. (Photo by Michael Debets/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images) Michael Debets?Pacific Press/LightRocket/Getty Images(VIENNA) ? Austrian police arrested eight suspected terrorists Thursday in a series of early-morning raids in the country`s two largest cities that mobilized heavily armed SWAT teams and hundreds of officers supporting them. Around a hundred protesters marched through Vienna one day ahead of the Austrian Presidential election, protesting against the rightwing candidate for the election, Norbert Hofer.