The Independent
January 19, 2012
Six years ago, Russian state television broadcast a film claiming British agents had hidden a sophisticated transmitter inside a fake rock which was left on a Moscow street.
Embassy officials then allegedly downloaded classified data from the transmitter using palm-top computers.
The Russian security service, the FSB, linked the rock with claims that British security services were making covert payments to pro-democracy and human rights groups.
Then president Vladimir Putin later introduced a law restricting non-governmental organisations (NGOs) from getting funding from foreign governments, causing many to close down.
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