Vladimir Putin cannot take Russia’s ‘safe’ covid vaccine, Kremlin says 

Vladimir Putin cannot take Russia’s ‘safe’ covid vaccine because it is uncertified, Kremlin says Kremlin has said President Vladimir Putin cannot take Russia’s Covid vaccine ‘The head of state can’t take part in vaccination as a volunteer,’ spokesperson said Putin announced last month that Russia had developed a second vaccine  The country registered its first … Read more

Kremlin hackers are targeting Joe Biden AND Donald Trump’s campaigns, Microsoft reveals

The same Russian military intelligence outfit that hacked the Democrats in 2016 has attempted similar intrusions into the computer systems of more than 200 organizations including political parties and consultants, Microsoft said Thursday. Those efforts appear to be part of a broader increase in targeting of U.S. political campaigns and related groups, the company said.  … Read more

Kremlin dismisses claims that Putin was behind Alexei Navalny’s ‘poisoning’

Russia today rejected claims that the Kremlin was behind the poisoning of Vladimir Putin critic Alexei Navalny, who is in a coma at a German hospital.  Navalny’s friends have pointed the finger at Putin after the opposition leader fell ill on a flight in Siberia and was airlifted to Berlin in a critical condition.  Kremlin … Read more

The Kremlin REFUSES to let Alexei Navalny leave Russia for medical treatment

Supporters of ‘poisoned’ Vladimir Putin foe Alexei Navalny claim the Kremlin is risking his life by refusing to allow him to be flown for treatment in the West. Navalny was due to be flown out of the Siberian city of Omsk, where he remains in a ‘deep coma’ and hooked up to a ventilator, at … Read more

MI5 ‘is to be given tough powers to make UK a harder environment for Kremlin spies to operate in’

MI5 are to be granted tough new powers to make the UK a harsher environment for Kremlin spies to operate in after a damning report by MPs said the Government ‘took its eye off the ball.’   In a devastating and long-awaited report, intelligence and security committee said the UK ‘badly underestimated’ the Russian threat as … Read more

Russia report: UK government ‘underestimated threat posed by Kremlin’

A long-awaited report into allegations of Russian meddling in British democracy has found the UK Government ‘underestimated’ the threat posed by the Kremlin.  The Intelligence and Security Committee (ISC) said that as a result Britain is now having to ‘play catch up’ with the UK now ‘clearly a target for Russian disinformation’.  On the crunch … Read more

The Salisbury Poisonings: Haunting stories behind the horror of a Kremlin killing

The Salisbury Poisonings  Rating: Every night on the news, as reporters investigate a stabbing or a suburban drugs bust, you will hear a bystander say: ‘That sort of thing just doesn’t happen around here.’ It’s the universal cry of the baffled neighbour. It could have been a slogan on the T-shirt of every character we … Read more

The power crazed crook in the Kremlin: The Oligarchs thought he’d last one term

BOOK OF THE WEEK  PUTIN’S PEOPLE  by Catherine Belton (William Collins, £25, 640pp) Thank heavens for coronavirus! I know I shouldn’t say that but there are some small blessings in the current pandemic.  In Russia, the national referendum to extend Vladimir Putin’s stay in office for another 12 years has been postponed. The proposal that … Read more

Former Kremlin advisor who became a British citizen dies in London in ‘bolt from the blue’ aged 63

A prominent former Kremlin advisor and advocate for Vladimir Putin who became a British citizen has died in London from a ‘stroke’. The death of Alexander Nekrassov, 63, came as a ‘bolt out of the blue’, a British friend of the Soviet journalist said. He was seen in his later years in Britain as an … Read more

Trump dismisses warnings that Vladimir Putin will use Russian medical supplies as Kremlin propaganda

President Donald Trump brushed aside warnings that Vladimir Putin would use the 60 tons of medical supplies Russia sent to New York as Kremlin propaganda, calling it a ‘nice gesture.’ ‘If they send things we need, I’ll take it. Nice gesture. I’m not concerned about Russian propaganda. He offered a lot of high quality stuff … Read more