Social media recruitment is only one method Chinese spies use to collect information about U.S. national security and corporate secrets.

Court documents suggest Nikulin's defense strategy has been dealt a blow.

Data including users’ profile names, stored links to profile pictures and their Instagram ID is available in the database,

Recorded Future claims that tessa88 is tied to Russian national Maksim Donakov.

Nikulin is refusing to speak substantively about his own criminal defense, detainment or mental health, according to a lawyer on his defense team.

Yevgeniy Nikulin's lawyers say they have not been able to adequately prepare for trial in the time the judge allotted to them.