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Woman detained by KGB over her Tinder pictures as she is forced to apologise on video

The unnamed woman, 29, who worked as a logistics company manager, took a photo of herself wrapped in the white-red-white flag of Belarus and has now been arrested by the country's KGB service

Daily Mirror

Boris Johnson met with son of ex-KGB oligarch the day after he was sanctioned

The then-Prime Minister met with Lord Lebedev the day after his father was hit by war sanctions in Canada. Former spy chief Alexander Lebedev has faced no such crackdowns from British Authorities

Daily Mirror

David Tennant looks unrecognisable as Alexander Litvinenko in first look at ITVX drama

The Scots actor, who recently returned to his role in Doctor Who as the 14th Doctor, will portray the former KGB Officer.

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Liz Cheney schools Marjorie Taylor Greene on Russia: ‘You stand with Putin against freedom and America’

‘Under Republicans, not another penny will go to Ukraine,’ Greene said at rally alongside Trump

The Independent UK

Vladimir Putin losing grip and facing regime collapse as Kremlin 'predators' circle

Competing power groups are at each others' throats and weakened Russian president Vladimir Putin can no longer control those vying for position in his close circle, it has been claimed

Daily Mirror

Are Putin’s views fascist?

The Russian leader often evokes a philosopher who praised Mussolini, but analysts are divided on Putin’s own ideology.

Al Jazeera

Ukraine war: Putin escalates with sabotage and 'false flag' operations leaving the west struggling to find a response

From the start of his invasion of Ukraine, the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, has employed the threat of escalation to the use of nuclear weapons as a means to deter western support. He has aimed to spread fear in Europe as a means to undermining solidarity with Kyiv. And as…

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KGB stooges could swing result of online Tory leadership vote, expert warns

Professor Peter Ryan said online voting is ‘always vulnerable’ to hacking – ‘especially by state attackers’.

The Independent UK

Vladimir Putin's ambitious defence chief Sergei Shoigu was once the 'heir apparent'. Ukraine's war could bring him down

Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu was once among Vladimir Putin's most trusted advisers but, as his military campaign in Ukraine falters, there may be a target on his back.

ABC News

New Cold War papers show just how far Britain has come on LGBT issues

Today MI5 is releasing a massive number of its historical files into the National Archives at Kew. Among them are papers telling for the first time the inside story of its investigation of John Vassall — the notorious KGB spy in the Admiralty until his arrest in 1962.

Evening Standard

British KGB spy’s lavish Moscow lifestyle laid bare in MI5 files

Soviet Russia used John Vassall's sexuality to blackmail him into betraying Britain

Wales Online

'Mad and dying' Putin turns 70 as stalling war written across his 'steroid-addled face'

The Kremlin leader remains as menacing as ever ahead of his birthday on Friday, amid reports that a Russian "nuclear train" is heading towards Ukraine

Daily Mirror

Welsh spy whose body was found in a bag was killed by the Kremlin, claims ex MP

The death of Gareth Williams has remained a mystery ever since the spy's body was found naked in a bag padlocked from the outside

Wales Online

Vladimir Putin's goddaughter faces jail for 'spreading lies about Russian government'

Journalist and former presidential election candidate Ksenia Sobchak is accused of “spreading falsehoods about government agencies”, which could land her in jail for up to three years

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Reuters

Analysis-Truth or bluff? Why Putin's nuclear warnings have the West worried

President Vladimir Putin's latest warning that he is ready to use nuclear weapons to defend Russia amid the war in Ukraine has made a troubling question much more urgent: Is the former KGB spy bluffing?

Daily Mirror

City has a secret second underground network built by its paranoid leader

Unofficial reports and intelligence from the US has suggested that there is a secret second underground network, titled Metro-2, beneath the streets of Russian capital Moscow

The Philadelphia Inquirer

Trudy Rubin: After Gorbachev’s death, Putin wants the world to know he is the ‘anti-Gorbi’

In early 1990, when Mikhail Gorbachev’s efforts to liberalize Soviet life were in full flower, I was on a journalistic exchange with a Russian newspaper — Moscow News — at the apex of the glasnost (“openness”) campaign.

Daily Mirror

Vladimir Putin 'limps' across room for Russian war games amid deepening health concerns

Vladimir Putin's health is once again being brought under the spotlight after his latest public appearance showed him walking with a limp during a military exercise

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Tribune News Service

Martin Schram: A give-and-take with Gorbachev

When Mikhail Gorbachev walked into the room for our interview in Moscow, he brought with him the impressive aura of a man who was still a sitting president, a confident leader who was prepared to devote just a bit of his busy schedule to yet another ho-hum exercise of message…

The Independent UK

The 1991 coup attempt Mikhail Gorbachev barely survived

After a three-day-long attempt to overthrow his presidency, Gorbachev returns to power as the collapse of Soviet communism continues at rapid pace, writes Michael Dobbs

The Independent UK

History's bookends: Putin reversed many Gorbachev reforms

Mikhail Gorbachev stood for freedom, openness, peace and closer ties with the outside world

Evening Standard

Gorbachev’s successors: who led Russia after the last leader of the Soviet Union?

Three people have been president of Russia since the Soviet Union disintegrated

ABC News

Vladimir Putin may use the murder of Darya Dugina to his advantage. But the path ahead is risky for the Russian leader

Since Vladimir Putin first came to power, many of his critics and supporters have died in strange and violent circumstances. But the fiery death of Darya Dugina is different.

The Guardian - AU

Olympic medal machine Victor Kovalenko: ‘They said I can make a choice to sail for Russia or Ukraine’

It has been 30 years since the now coach made a decision that set him on a path to Australia – and unprecedented prosperity

The Guardian - UK

‘I can’t believe this is happening’: Ukraine marks 31 years of independence

As Volodymyr Zelenskiy hopes Ukraine will soon be able to celebrate victory day, public gatherings are banned amid fears Russia plans to step up attacks

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