Court jails young Russians for ‘plotting to overthrow Putin’: Activists are sentenced to up to seven years in a penal colony in case which has sparked protests and accusations police have overstepped their powers Ruslan Kostylenkov, Pyotr Karamzin and Vyacheslav Kryukov were sentenced In 2018 authorities detained 10 people, accusing them of belonging to the New Greatness … Read more
The captain of a Russian ship carrying a cargo of ammonium nitrate which was impounded in Beirut said he regularly sounded the alarm over the ‘power keg’, years before it exploded and destroyed large parts of the city. Boris Prokoshev, who was at the helm of tanker Rhosus in 2013 when it had to make an … Read more
Vladimir Putin’s man in London has warned relations between Westminster and Moscow are ‘close to being frozen’ – with Russia in ‘no hurry’ to ease tensions. In his first major newspaper interview since his appointment last year, Mr Putin’s ambassador Andrei Kelin denied claims that his nation had interfered in British politics. Brushing off accusations … Read more
President Vladimir Putin said the Russian navy will get 40 new ships this year, as he attended a naval parade in St Petersburg on Sunday marking the country’s Navy Day. The parade in the port city and the nearby town of Kronshtadt featured 200 ships and vessels and over 4,000 troops and aimed to ‘demonstrate … Read more
Judges have ruled that a coroner wrongly narrowed the scope of an inquest into the death of a woman poisoned by the nerve agent Novichok. Dawn Sturgess, 44, died in hospital in Salisbury, Wiltshire, in July 2018 after handling a perfume bottle containing a chemical poison. Judges heard that the mother was exposed to the … Read more
Russia has claimed that US and UK are developing secret space weapons as it dismissed accusations of test-firing an anti-satellite weapon in orbit. Moscow issued its response earlier today after being furiously condemned by the United States Space Command for a ‘concerning’ act that they said had threatened peace in space. The Kremlin called reports … Read more
Putin tests anti-satellite weapon in space: US and Britain say Russia have ‘threatened peace in space’ and created ‘serious risk’ The United States has described the event as a test of an anti-satellite weapon UK accused Russia of launching a projectile ‘with characteristics of a weapon’ It is first time the Ministry of Defence has … Read more
Putin tests anti-satellite weapon in space: US and Britain say Russia have ‘threatened peace in space’ and created ‘serious risk’ The United States has described the event as a test of an anti-satellite weapon UK accused Russia of launching a projectile ‘with characteristics of a weapon’ It is first time the Ministry of Defence has … Read more
Russia ‘tried to influence 2014 Scottish independence referendum but didn’t interfere in the Brexit vote’, long-awaited report on Moscow’s meddling in UK elections will reveal MPs and peers on Intelligence and Security Committee carried out investigation Expected to say not enough was done in Whitehall to establish if Russia meddled Also questions if enough was … Read more
Vladimir Putin must have known his spies were trying to steal groundbreaking British research into a coronavirus vaccine, a former chair of UK joint intelligence committee said today. Lady Neville Jones told the BBC she is ‘almost certain’ that the Russian President will have been aware that his operatives launched cyber attacks on Oxford University and … Read more