Britain must face up to Moscow after ‘badly underestimating’ the Russian threat for years, MPs warned last night. In a devastating and long-awaited report, they said the UK took its ‘eye off the ball’ as the Kremlin waged a campaign of hacking, disinformation and political meddling. London – nicknamed ‘Londongrad’ – has become a ‘laundromat’ … 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
Russian businessman tells High Court that ex-MI6 spy Christopher Steele harmed his reputation by claiming he was involved in Moscow hack on Democrats in ‘dodgy’ dossier that linked Putin and Trump Aleksej Gubarev is suing the former MI6 operative Christopher Steele in London Mr Steele’s intelligence report alleged ties between Trump’s and the Kremlin Lawyers … Read more
Russia’s ambassador to the UK says there is ‘no sense’ in claims his country tried to steal coronavirus vaccine research Andrei Kelin said there was ‘no sense’ in the allegations made by Britain, the United States and Canada about the Russian intelligence services Western allies claimed hackers known as the Dukes or Cozy Bear had … Read more
At least 10,000 people are said to have taken to the streets of the Russian city Khabarovsk on Saturday, demanding the release of a popular regional governor, who was detained on suspicion of murder last week. Khabarovsk governor Sergei Furgal, was arrested on July 9 and flown to Moscow, where he remains in pre-trial detention. Russia‘s … Read more
Russian socialite, 48, becomes Tory party’s biggest female donor with gifts of £1.7m – including £45,000 to play tennis with Boris Johnson and £135,000 for dinner with Theresa May Lubov Chernukhin donated over £335,000 between January and July this year The banker also gave £200,000 to Tory election campaign in November last year She was … Read more
Putin orders snap military drills involving 150,000 troops and hundreds of aircraft and naval vessels on Ukrainian border to ensure ‘security in Russia’s southwest’ Russia is conducting snap military drills along its southern border with Ukraine 150,000 troops are involved and will test readiness for larger drill in September It comes just hours after Ukraine … Read more
The head of Russia‘s sovereign wealth fund has claimed that he and his figure skater wife have already been vaccinated against coronavirus using an ‘experimental’ shot developed in Moscow. Kirill Dmitriev, 45-year-old manager of the $10billion Russian Direct Investment Fund, said that he, wife Natalia Popova and their family developed ‘double the antibodies’ of a … Read more
University of Oxford Clinical teams at the Oxford University’s Jenner Institute and Oxford Vaccine Group began developing the ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 vaccine in January, now named AZD1222 since a manufacturing partnership with pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca was secured. Human trials started on April 23 and they are now in the final phase. Lead of the project Professor … Read more
How Russians worked to get LABOUR elected: Moscow hackers ‘almost certainly’ spread leaked documents on US-UK trade talks that were used by Jeremy Corbyn during campaign Government says Russians involved in spreading leaked material during election Documents on US-UK trade talks were used by Jeremy Corbyn as an attack line He claimed they showed the … Read more