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Keir Starmer says Boris Johnson has 'serious questions' to answer on Lebedev appointment

Security services had concerns about Lebedev, whose father was in KGB, as far back as 2013, say reports but Boris Johnson made him a peer.

Daily Record

Gove defends Evgeny Lebedev after new questions raised about peerage

Security services had concerns about Lebedev, whose father was in KGB, as far back as 2013, say reports

The Guardian - UK

UK politics: UK will support Ukraine with weapons and diplomacy in face of ‘barbaric war’, says Truss – as it happened

The UK will target those complicit in Putin’s illegal invasion of Ukraine, the foreign secretary says, as sanctions are announced for some Russian MPs

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Who is in Vladimir Putin's inner circle? The generals and security staff in an elite group

The Russian dictator is surrounded by cronies, many of who he has known since his days in the KGB

Wales Online

‘I was not ready to be killed’: The secret theatre forced into exile by the KGB

Belarus Free Theatre created art in secret under the dictatorship of Alexander Lukashenko but went into exile after their latest encounter with the Belarusian KGB. They talk to Jasper Rees about the threat to artists in their country and the dystopian ‘Dogs of Europe’

The Independent UK

Russian-born peer not 'distorting politics' because he never votes, claims top Tory

Minister James Cleverly said it was irrelevant that Lord Lebedev's dad was a former KGB agent and compared the situation to his own father being an ex-chartered surveyor

Daily Mirror

Johnson says UK may need to produce more oil and gas to reduce reliance on Russia – as it happened

UK prime minister says he will announce an energy supply strategy soon but adds that UK must go ‘step by step’

The Guardian - UK

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Ex-KGB officer warns vengeful Putin 'will send assassins to Europe' if Ukraine falls

The former KGB boss of Putin says vengeful Vladimir would not dare to order assassinations in the US but the Russian President is likely to try in Europe

Daily Mirror

Vladimir Putin and sinister reason behind unusual walk could be linked to the KGB

Researchers have suggested it could be linked to weapons training he received while part of the Soviet KGB.

Daily Record

Sinister reason behind Vladimir Putin's unusual walk could be linked to the KGB

Analysis of his walk appears to show Putin walking with a clear rigid leg and a right arm that remains stiff while his left swings.- which could be linked to former military training

Daily Mirror

‘Ill-begotten gains’: Russian oligarchs named in new US sanction list over Ukraine invasion

They include Russia’s wealthiest men, judo training partners, former KGB agents, founder of a troll farm, and Vladimir Putin’s personal press secretary

The Independent UK

"This could have been stopped": Ex Russian spy hiding in Northumberland devastated by Ukraine invasion

Former KGB double agent Viktor Makarov, who lives in a Haltwhistle hide out, believes Putin's threat was not taken seriously enough by western leaders

Chronicle Live

Who is Vladimir Putin? How Russian president rose from KGB officer

Russian president Vladimir Putin has been a dominant political force for decades.

Daily Record

Russian-British businessman Lebedev pleads with Putin to end Ukraine war

Evgeny Lebedev, the ennobled British-Russian media boss and son of a former KGB spy, on Monday pleaded with Russian President Vladimir Putin to end the war in Ukraine.

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Wales Online

When did Putin come to power? How Putin rose from KGB spy to political dominance

Putin has been the dominant figure in Russia for more than 20 years, and previously served in the KGB - the Soviet Union's intelligence and security service

The Guardian - UK

‘I’m a dead man walking’: ex-Russian spy says defectors in UK are at risk

A Latvian double agent is getting death threats after British authorities inadvertently disclosed his alias

The Guardian - US

Vladimir Putin sits atop a crumbling pyramid of power

Putin’s end goal isn’t Ukraine but western civilization – the hatred for which he lapped up in the black milk he drank from the KGB’s teat

Tribune News Service

Editorial: Putin wants to break Western solidarity. That must not happen

Russian President Vladimir Putin’s brutal, lawless invasion of Ukraine is the consequence of the former KGB head’s messianic vision and numerous Western miscalculations over the past two decades. President George W. Bush looked into Putin’s soul and mistakenly found him “very straightforward and trustworthy.” President Barack Obama saw a time…

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Daily Mirror

Vladimir Putin's childhood explained - from 'miracle baby' to power-crazed president

Vladimir Putin was born on October 7, 1952, in Leningrad, now St Petersburg, a city that had been under siege for 900 days in the Second World War. Putin was a street kid, small for his age and bullied

Tribune News Service

Editorial: Vlad the impaler: What is Putin’s endgame here?

Vladimir Putin is wily, they say; he’s steps ahead of naive Western counterparts, ruthless at wielding his power for maximum advantage. And sure enough, there was the former KGB colonel Monday signing a piece of paper that Russia has recognized two breakaway Ukrainian regions, Donetsk and Luhansk, as independent —…

Chicago Tribune

Editorial: Putin wants to undermine Western unity. Here’s why US and NATO cannot let that happen

Every so often Vladimir Putin draws back the shades and gives the West a portal into what he’s thinking. He did so Monday, unspooling a rambling hourlong monologue that served as revisionist red meat for the former Soviet KGB agent’s domestic audience, and a gauntlet on the floor for President…

Tribune News Service

What to stream: Learn more about Ukraine conflict with these documentaries

With the conflict unfolding in Ukraine over the past several weeks and months now coming to a head, the world has been waiting in tense anticipation for the potential outbreak of war in Europe. As Russian President Vladimir Putin has threatened, postured and rattled his saber over Ukraine’s sovereignty, particularly…

ABC News

ASIO Sparrow Anne Neill was a 'secret service housewife' who lived an incredible double life

The Adelaide widow was a Communist Party delegate who visited the Soviet Union and met KGB spy Vladimir Petrov. She was also an ASIO secret agent.

The Guardian - UK

Putin’s security men: the elite group who ‘fuel his anxieties’

Russia’s growing isolation has strengthened the ‘siloviki’ who surround the president

The Guardian - UK

Bacon in Moscow by James Birch review – darkly funny account of art behind the iron curtain

Spats, KGB threats, dodgy Soviet plumbing… a London gallerist’s vivid memoir of organising a Francis Bacon show in the USSR really brings the artist to life

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