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M16 warned PM about Russian oligarch friend Evgeny Lebedev two years ago

Boris Johnson was warned about granting a peerage to his close friend Evgeny Lebedev two years ago by British intelligence. According to a report in the Sunday Times, the head of M16 held security concerns over the Russian oligarch – who has ...

13 Mar 2022 at 03:55

MI6 warned PM about Russian oligarch friend Evgeny Lebedev two years ago

13 Mar 2022 at 11:55

Russian accused of killing Alexander Litvinenko reportedly dies from Covid-19

One of the men accused of killing former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko in London has died of Covid-19 in Moscow, it has been widely reported. Dmitri Kovtun was one of two men who a UK inquiry ruled had poisoned Mr Litvinenko’s tea ...

04 Jun 2022 at 20:24

Margarita Levieva: I was scared to be in Litvinenko because of Vladimir Putin

Margarita Levieva said she was “scared” to take on the role of Alexander Litvinenko’s wife because of what Russian President Vladimir Putin is “capable of”. The Russian-American actress said she decided playing Marina Litvinenko, ...

02 Dec 2022 at 02:37

Minister warns against jumping to conclusions over Wagner chief’s reported death

A UK minister has warned it is important “not to jump to conclusions” over the reported death of the leader of the Wagner mercenary group in a plane crash which is speculated to have been an assassination. Yevgeny Prigozhin was ...

24 Aug 2023 at 18:45

Tensions between UK and Russia formed backdrop for spying case

The Berlin spy case came as Britain’s relations with Russia could not have been more finely balanced with Vladimir Putin amassing his forces on the border of Ukraine. After the Cold War ended in 1991, hopes of a warmer ...

17 Feb 2023 at 11:17

‘Harder and harder’ to get audiences watching main channel, says ITV drama boss

The head of drama at ITV has said it is becoming “harder and harder” to get audiences to watch the broadcaster’s main channel, where programmes have to “cut broad”. Polly Hill said that its linear channels were “not ...

16 May 2023 at 14:55

Litvinenko widow brands Putin a war criminal amid Ukraine invasion protest

The widow of poisoned dissident Alexander Litvinenko has said she is “very proud” of hundreds of Russians who marched on their own country’s embassy in central London to mark the first anniversary of the invasion ...

25 Feb 2023 at 22:56

David Tennant recreates photo of poisoned Alexander Litvinenko lying in hospital

David Tennant has recreated the famous photo of Russian defector Alexander Litvinenko lying in a hospital bed before his death from poisoning. Litvinenko, a former Russian federal security services and KGB ...

07 Nov 2022 at 15:54

Dismissive response to poisoning suggestions ‘disappointing’, top officer says

Counter-terrorism police’s “dismissive” response to suggestions that an ex-Russian spy may have been poisoned was “extremely disappointing”, a top officer has said. Commander Dominic Murphy, head of the ...

12 Nov 2024 at 14:28

Putin would have authorised Novichok poisonings, senior officials says

Vladimir Putin would have authorised the assassination attempt on Sergei Skripal because of the “enormous” reputational risk the Novichok poisonings would have posed to Russia, a senior Foreign Office ...

28 Nov 2024 at 15:00

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