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Hillary Clinton. All quotes from the letter are published with the preservation of copyright spelling. "In the future, I received an offer from A :" You will have to declare that you broke Hillary Clinton's mailbox for D. Trump on the orders of V. Putin, you must agree to extradition to the USA, here we will remove all charges and give you apartment and money, American citizenship "- I refused, soon the" interrogation "was over, the Agent said that they would come again," Nikulin wrote.
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Mikhailov's group that transmitted information about Seleznev's whereabouts to Western intelligence agencies. In addition to him, in 2014-2017 at least two more Russian programmers were detained on charges of crimes in the United States, Peter Levashov and Stanislav Lisov as well as Russian citizens Mark Vartanyan and Yevgeniy Nikulin.
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Beeline, which helped identify the young man. It is these data, the lawyer claims, that American special agents refer, substantiating their request for the extradition of Nikulin to the United States. Now the lawyer is surprised how private personal information from Russian providers could get to the American intelligence, if only one of the Russian special services did not help her.
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A Russian man accused of hacking the systems of three
American technology companies in 2012, possibly compromising the personal information of more than 100 million users, was extradited to the United States from the Czech Republic on Friday. The man, Yevgeniy A. Nikulin, appeared in Federal District
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Francisco field office, Jeffrey Miller, traveled to Prague to offer asylum in exchange for testimony. The F.B.I. has said the agent was there only
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Present Time, Nikulin talks about interrogations that took place on November 14–15, 2016 and February 7, 2017. He identifies the people who were talking to him as "Agent" and "Miller." A Russian citizen claims that he was offered to take the blame for breaking the mail of
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Democratic Party" on the
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Kislitsin was indicted in March of 2014. The next month, April 2014, Kislitsin went to the U.S. Embassy in Moscow to be interviewed by agents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). During the interview, Kislitsin made statements inculpating Nikulin in the Formspring, Dropbox, and LinkedIn
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The lawyer of the Russian-native cyber attacks suspect, Yevgeniy Nikulin, wrote a letter to Donald Trump. He asks to pay attention to the illegal actions of FBI agents, Izvestia newspaper reports. The claims that special services forced him to plead guilty to interfering in the U.S. presidential
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During a 2014 meeting at the U.S. Embassy in Moscow, Kislitsin said "he knew Belan conspired with Russian FSB officers to target U.S. citizens to obtain 'commercial databases with a goal to sell them for financial gain or use them for spamming.'" During the same meeting, Kislitsin told the FBI he
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Yevgeniy Nikulin, a Russian man who allegedly stole 117 million usernames and passwords from LinkedIn, Dropbox and Formspring in 2012, was in regular contact with Oleksandr Ieremenko, a Ukrainian national charged in New Jersey for allegedly hacking the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission,
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of the heavily redacted 21 pages on the former FBI official shows one of these alleged leaks revealed secret details about the identity of Yevgeniy Aleksandrovich Nikulin, a prolific Russian hacker.
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563:"Helping US Catch Criminal Hackers Led to Russian Treason Arrests"
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1031:"Jury Finds Russian National Guilty of High-Profile Hacks"
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175:(Евгений Александрович Никулин) is a Russian computer
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464:"Czech Police Arrest Yevgeny Nikulin in Prague"
1086:Dave, Paresh; Wilbur, Del (October 19, 2016).
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361:"USA V. YEVGENIY ALEXANDRIVICH NIKULIN"
317:"USA V. YEVGENIY ALEXANDROVICH NIKULIN"
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145:2 counts of aggravated identity theft
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1006:from the original on March 22, 2019
16:Russian computer hacker (born 1987)
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789:Kapinos, Oksana (May 11, 2017).
1029:Dinzeo, Maria (July 10, 2020).
683:Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
1208:21st-century Russian criminals
820:O'Connor, Tom (May 11, 2017).
647:Stone, Jeff (March 13, 2020).
340:"BOP: Federal Inmates By Name"
173:Yevgeniy Alexandrovich Nikulin
139:3 counts of computer intrusion
116:3 counts of computer intrusion
42:Yevgeniy Alexandrovich Nikulin
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162:88 months in prison
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