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MYSTERIOUS: 2 - What They Never Told You

Will Russia’s Putin benefit from Prigozhin’s presumed plane crash death?

The Wagner Group leader was listed as a passenger of a plane that crashed on Wednesday, but his death is unconfirmed.

Al Jazeera

Yevgeny Prigozhin: Wagner Group boss joins long list of those who challenged Vladimir Putin and paid the price

Two months after challenging Vladimir Putin’s leadership in an apparent but abortive “mutiny”, Yevgeny Prigozhin – the former owner of the mercenary private military company Wagner Group – has joined a long list of prominent Russians to die in mysterious circumstances.

The Conversation

UK watching closely following reports of Wagner chief’s death in plane crash

Yevgeny Prigozhin was reportedly killed in a crash more than 180 miles north of Moscow.

The Independent UK

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What's in vapes? Toxins, heavy metals, maybe radioactive polonium

If you asked me what’s in e-cigarettes, disposable vapes or e-liquids, my short answer would be “we don’t fully know”.

The Conversation

Putin has become a global bogeyman. Russians must exorcise this ghoul

Accursed, ostracised but heedless of the misery he causes, this accused war criminal is dragging his people into a moral abyss

The Guardian - UK

Yevgeny Prigozhin and the other Kremlin contenders who could replace Vladimir Putin

Vladimir Putin’s disastrous military defeats, his nuclear sabre-rattling and his endless raising of the stakes in Ukraine have forced even staunch pro-Kremlin commentators to question his decisions.

The Week

'I watched Litvinenko die and treated 7/7 victims but Covid pushed me to breaking point'

Dr Jim Down, consultant of critical care and anaesthesia, came to public prominence during the Covid-19 pandemic when BBC crews interviewed him

Daily Mirror

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Litvinenko ITV drama: release date, cast, plot and everything we know about the David Tennant series

ITV1's Litvinenko ITV drama will see the Scottish star taking on the role of the doomed Russian security services officer.

WhatToWatch

How Putin’s taste for jail jargon changed Russia

Growing up in St Petersburg, Russia’s leader was fascinated with prison songs and sambo, a form of wrestling.

Al Jazeera

The National Television Awards long list in full, how to vote and when it takes place

Holly Willoughby and Phillip Schofield are up for best presenter at the NTAs

Manchester Evening News

Critic of Vladimir Putin's regime poisoned after speaking out against war in Ukraine

Russian politician Elvira Vikhareva became ill in November last year with muscle spasms and severe stomach pains - it has since emerged that she had been poisoned after criticising the Kremlin

Daily Mirror

"She Confessed That Her Husband Killed Alexander and Herself Died a Month Later at the Age of 28. That's Strange": Libel by Implication?

From Judge John Cronan's decision Tuesday in Goldfarb v. Channel One Russia(S.D.N.Y.): Plaintiff Alex Goldfarb claims that Defendant Channel One Russia … libeled him and intentionally inflicted emotional distress upon him through statements made during four television programs it broadcast in 2018. Those statements, Goldfarb claims, either asserted or implied…

Reason

One of UK's most famous cemeteries heating graves to protect from extreme weather

Highgate Cemetery in North London is the final resting place for dozens of famous people such as George Michael but also Karl Marx and poisoned Russian defector Alexander Litvinenko - the graves become damaged during extreme cold

Daily Mirror

David Tennant wants his kids to 'grow up free and be themselves'

The Scots actor says people should be able to "express who they are".

Daily Record

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The Independent UK

Litvinenko widow brands Putin a war criminal amid Ukraine invasion protest

The poisoned dissident’s wife addressed hundreds of demonstrators protesting against the invasion of Ukraine outside the Russian embassy in London.

Daily Mirror

Nuclear Heathrow airport scare could be Litvinenko-style attack, claims former general

Met Counter Terrorism Command officers raced to Heathrow Airport Terminal 4 on December 29 after a package set off alarms over "contaminated' material- which turned out to be uranium

Manchester Evening News

'Phoenix for the win!' - The Masked Singer viewers are certain that masked character is Dr Who icon

Phoenix wowed with his out of this world singing talents

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.

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The Guardian - UK

The week in TV: Litvinenko; Strike: Troubled Blood; How to Crack the Class Ceiling; The White Lotus and more

David Tennant breathes some life into an extended deathbed scene; Strike and Robin lose their fizz; and, if you’ve recovered, what next for The White Lotus?

The Independent UK

David Tennant’s Russian accent in Litvinenko is… quite something

For some reason, TV and film creators don’t think viewers can get over the one-inch-tall barrier that is subtitles, as ‘Parasite’ director Bong Joon-ho so perfectly put it

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

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.

Evening Standard

Litvinenko on ITVX: David Tennant’s dying spy is only the start of the story in this unshowy drama

A low key, but still horrific, exploration of Alexander Litvinenko’s killing in London and the subsequent police investigation

Manchester Evening News

How did Alexander Litvinenko die? The shocking true story behind the ITV drama

Who Alexander 'Sacha' Litvinenko was and when he died as ITV series airs starring David Tennant

The Guardian - UK

Litvinenko review – this woeful David Tennant drama is nigh-on pointless

This dramatisation of the poisoning of an ex-Russian spy takes a murder and turns it into a plodding police procedural that’s far less interesting than the truth. Why bother?

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