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Brave Russian farmer strangled rampaging wolf to death with his bare hands after the beast killed two dogs and attacked his horse CCTV footage caught the moment the man, carrying a torch, was attacked Farmer and the wolf fought in the snow before he grabbed animal by the neck Video ends with the unnamed farmer repeatedly … Read more
Russian TV bosses will be ‘punished’ after Putin’s New Year message was screened with half his head cut off – despite insisting it was a technical glitch and not a political protest Kaliningrad-based TV station blamed a ‘technical glitch’ for the ropey broadcast It showed Putin’s annual speech with half of the president’s head out … Read more
A Russian sumo wrestler who was dubbed the ‘world’s strongest kid’ weighing 23 stone when he was nine has died at the age of 21. Dzhambulat Khatokhov, nicknamed Gladiator by his classmates, rose to fame at the age of three when he was hailed the strongest and heaviest child on the planet. He became known around … Read more
Hunt for 17 fishermen feared dead after their boat became ‘caked with ice’ and sank in minus 30 temperatures in the Russian Arctic The Onega sank in the Russian arctic in the early hours of Monday morning A search and rescue mission is under way for 17 missing members of the 19-strong crew after two … Read more
A sexism row has erupted in Russia after a male Communist MP confessed to gawping at a female minister’s ‘beautiful’ chest during a parliamentary session. Red politician Pyotr Ammosov, 54, told entrepreneurship minister Irina Vysokikh, 34, that as a ‘healthy man’ he had fixed his eyes on ‘a bare part of your body’. This prevented … Read more
Russian billionaire, 53, who was hit by tragedy in 2015 when his son killed his second wife with a phone cable is found dead in Zanzibar months after recovering from Covid Igor Sosin has died on holiday with his daughter and a mystery woman The retail magnate and portfolio investor recovered from Covid earlier this … Read more
A leading Russian biologist may have been engaged on Covid-19 vaccine research in Britain when he fell 14 floors to his death, it is claimed. Alexander ‘Sasha’ Kagansky, 45, best known for his work on fighting cancer and with longstanding links to Edinburgh University, was also reported to have been on ‘sedatives’ when he died … Read more
Joe Biden is said to be considering cyber attacks on Russian infrastructure in retaliation for the hacks that breached 200 US federal agencies and firms. The president-elect’s team will consider several options over the country’s suspected role in the unprecedented hacking of US government agencies and companies, sources have told Reuters. The massive data breach … Read more
Mitt Romney demanded Sunday that the U.S. response to the Russia cyber attack be ‘of like magnitude or greater’ as he slams President Donald Trump for claiming the hack was actually from China. ‘What Russia has done is put in place a capacity to potentially cripple us in terms of our electricity, our power, our … Read more
Vladimir Putin has given his personal backing to the Russian intelligence agency accused of launching a massive cyberattack against the US government. The Kremlin leader appeared at the headquarters of the SVR, Russian Foreign Intelligence Service, to mark its 100th anniversary on Sunday. While not referring to hacking, Putin lauded the work of intelligence agents … Read more