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Thousands of Russians have posted selfies wearing red tops to show support for jailed opposition leader Alexei Navalny’s wife. Social media users shared the pictures after Navalny’s wife, Yulia Navalnaya, wore a red jumper in court when her husband was handed his verdict earlier this week. As his sentence was read, Navalny made a heart sign … Read more
Thousands of Russians have posted selfies wearing red tops to show support for jailed opposition leader Alexei Navalny. Social media users shared the pictures after Alexei Navalny’s wife, Yulia Navalnaya, wore a red jumper in court when her husband was handed his verdict earlier this week. As his sentence was read, Navalny made a heart sign … Read more
Declassified CIA file reveals that US spies believed that Soviet doctors had ‘perfected’ Extra-Sensory Perception in the 1980s and could transmit thoughts and feelings to subjects An April 1991 memo detailing Soviet ESP experiments has been declassified The memo was released in November and published online on Monday It shows how CIA agents believed Soviet … Read more
The site of a fort inhabited by native Alaskans has been discovered more than 200 years after it was built to fend off Russian invaders. Using ground-penetrating radar and other non-invasive techniques, researchers confirmed the location of the last holdout of the Tlingit people in modern-day Sitka, on Alaska’s Baranof Island. Known as Shiskinoow or … Read more
Pictures have been released of miracle survivors from a Russian boat which sank in icy Arctic waters this morning, leaving 17 fishermen feared dead. The two men were rescued from The Onega, which sank off the Novaya Zemlya archipelago in Russia’s far north at 7am local time, after reportedly becoming ‘caked with ice’. Boatswain Vladislav Butorin, … Read more
Good luck with that! Russians are told to lay off alcohol for nearly two months when having Covid jabs Consumer safety watchdog head Anna Popova issued the advice on Tuesday Sputnik V vaccine recipients should avoid alcohol for two weeks before jab, she said, then for 42 days after the first injection The drug’s developer … Read more
BREAKING NEWS: FireEye, one of the world’s biggest cyber security firms, is HACKED by ‘world class Russian hackers’ FireEye announced in a blog post on Tuesday that it had been ‘recently’ hacked It said the attack was ‘top-tier’ and carried out by ‘world-class operatives’ CEO Kevin Mandia didn’t name Russia as the culprit but sources … Read more
Skripal probe hackers unmasked: Six Russians accused of trying to infiltrate Salisbury poisoning probe are named Hackers who tried to infiltrate Salisbury investigation have been unmasked They were charged in the US over a series of cyber-attacks across the world Indictment accuses group of trying to undermine UK efforts to hold Moscow to account By … Read more
Tory MP David Morris is ordered to apologise after lobbying for Russian’s company after £10k donation Tory MP David Morris accepted £10k donation from energy firm Aquind last year Shortly after, he asked a question in the Commons that ‘sought to benefit’ the company Inquiry ruled the MP had inadvertently breached the code of conduct By John … Read more
The release of the long-awaited Russia report this week revealed the grip the country has on the UK, from PR firms, charities, political interests, academia and cultural institutions. The Intelligence and Security Committee of MPs warned that ‘Russian influence in the UK is the new normal’, claiming that oligarchs and their money were welcomed into British … Read more