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KGB spy close to Vladimir Putin claims he is using body doubles due to telltale signs

Sergei Zhirnov, a former KGB colleague of Vladimir Putin, has claimed that body doubles are being employed at key events after he was seen gesticulating fervently and repeatedly touched his nose

Daily Mirror

Vladimir Putin: What is driving Russian leader’s relentless assault on Ukraine?

He sold the invasion as a collective decision with his military chiefs, but it is the president alone who will have to answer to history, writes Mary Dejevsky

The Independent UK

Western allies take note: if you want to beat Putin in Ukraine, target his wicked little helper in Belarus

Alexander Lukashenko put our airbases and resources at Russia disposal. His fall would accelerate victory for Ukraine, says Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, leader of the democratic opposition in Belarus

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The Soviet spy films that inspired a young Vladimir Putin

Vladimir Putin grew up in "brute, almost Darwinian conditions". But his skills as a master manipulator would take him far.

ABC News

Vladimir Putin: What is driving Russian leader’s relentless assault on Ukraine?

He sold the invasion as a collective decision with his military chiefs, but it is the president alone who will have to answer to history, writes Mary Dejevsky

The Independent UK

Vladimir Putin: What is driving Russian leader’s relentless assault on Ukraine?

Ukraine – a year of war: He sold the invasion as a collective decision with his military chiefs, but it is the president alone who will have to answer to history, writes Mary Dejevsky

The Independent UK

Russian support for Putin’s war in Ukraine is hardening

As Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine struggles into its second year, his transformation of Russian society is in overdrive.

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'Paranoid' Putin travels in armoured train and fears poisoning over Kremlin power struggle

The latest claims were made by Yury Shvets, 71, a former colleague of Putin's who studied with the despot at the KGB Institute. Shvets is now a US citizen leaving Russia after publishing a book describing his exploits

Daily Mirror

Treholt, Norwegian Cold War spy who served Soviet Union and Iraq, dies at 80

Arne Treholt, a Norwegian diplomat who sold Western secrets to the Soviet Union during the Cold War and as recently as 2020 warned countrymen not to antagonise Russia, has died in Moscow aged 80, the Norwegian government said on Monday.

Reuters

How to seduce men and get what you want, according to spy trained in KGB tricks

Aliia shares five techniques to get anything you want - including a trick with a plunger

Wales Online

Leila Khaled: The Soviets Supplied us with Parts to Develop Advanced Bombs

Final episode Leila Khaled is approaching 80. She has spent her life chasing a dream that has not been achieved. She has not abandoned it and feels no regret or remorse. She joined the Arab Nationalist Movement while she was still in high school and later joined the Popular Front…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Forget spy balloons, the world of surveillance has tried everything from schoolchildren to trained cats

The Chinese “spy balloon” shot down over the United States has brought the seemingly strange methods of surveillance and espionage into news headlines. Balloons have long been used for espionage – and not just for surveillance, as appears to be the case with this one.

The Conversation

Inside Cold War spy Kim Philby's life - sex, deception and double-dealing

Biographer James Hanning tells of his fascination with Kim Philby, who was played by Guy Pearce in the ITV series A Spy Among Friends. He spied for the Russians while working as a British secret agent

Daily Mirror

Emanuela Orlandi vanished 40 years ago. Why is the Vatican just now opening an investigation?

Nearly four decades after 15-year-old Emanuela Orlandi went missing, the Vatican opened its first official inquest into the case. Andrea Blanco explains her disappearance and asks, why now?

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With his luxury watch and murky Soviet past, Patriarch Kirill is Putin's spiritual leader and power broker

The head of the Russian Orthodox Church wields enormous influence over more than 100 million believers and is a powerful ally to President Vladimir Putin — nowhere moreso than in the ideological battle for Ukraine.

The Guardian - UK

MI5 refused to investigate ‘Russian spy’s’ links to Tories, says whistleblower

Party member lodges a complaint about the security services ignoring attempt of Russian infiltration into the Conservatives

The Independent UK

Emanuela Orlandi vanished 40 years ago. Why is the Vatican just now opening an investigation?

Nearly four decades after 15-year-old Emanuela Orlandi went missing, the Vatican opened its first official inquest into the case. Andrea Blanco explains her disappearance and asks, why now?

The Guardian - UK

Czech presidential election: Babiš likens rival to Putin after first-round defeat

Ex-PM ratchets up rhetoric after surprise loss to former army chief and Nato military chair Gen Petr Pavel

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Patriarch Kirill: The politically influential head of the Russian Orthodox Church

Born Vladimir Mikhailovich Gundyayev, Kirill has been the sixteenth patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church since he was enthroned in 2009. He has attracted international scrutiny with open declarations of support for Russian President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of neighbouring Ukraine in February 2022.

The Independent UK

Fallen colossus: USSR's terror, triumphs began 100 years ago

With its brutality, technological accomplishments and rigid ideology, the Soviet Union loomed over the world like an immortal colossus

The Independent UK

SVR Russia: Inside the secret intelligence agency once known as the infamous KGB

Russia’s 102-year-old foreign intelligence service traces its lineage to the time of Lenin

Daily Record

David Tennant says he's 'aware of repercussions' with ITVX Litvinenko series

The Bathgate-born actor stars in the new four-part mini-series telling the story of the ex-KGB officer's fatal poisoning in London in 2006.

Manchester Evening News

Who is Alexander Litvinenko’s wife Marina?

ITVX is airing a new four-part drama series exploring the assassination of Alexander Litvinenko

France 24

TV series show: 'Harry & Meghan' spills beans on royal split

Olivia Salazar-Winspear and Dheepthika Laurent look at the explosive revelations in Netflix's latest royal binge: the sleek, fawning docu-series "Harry & Meghan", in which the couple give their version of their decision to leave the British royal family. Also out this month is season two of the excellent Apple TV+…

Daily Record

Litvinenko: The true story behind David Tennant's new ITVX drama

Tennant, 51, will be portraying ex-KGB officer Alexander Litvinenko, who was fatally poisoned in London in 2006 in the four-part mini-series.

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