Survey launched aims to understand small business trading conditions and challenges SMALL businesses in Scotland are being urged to take part in The National (Scotland) · Jan 30, 2023
Scottish small businesses to be surveyed on trading struggles The aim of the study is to give small traders north of the border a louder voice to ensure their views are better represented to policy-makers. The Independent UK · Jan 30, 2023
Federation of Small Businesses launches state of the nation survey Organisation is looking to gather the views of Scottish small businesses to inform its policy-making Insider UK · Jan 30, 2023
Small business confidence plunges to lowest level since second Covid lockdown, report finds The latest small business index from the FSB found that headline confidence fell to the lowest result since Q4 2020 Birmingham Post · Jan 27, 2023
Ukrainian security service ‘needs cleanout’ after arrest of accused spy Former security official Viktor Yahun says Ukraine’s SBU agency has long been overly close to Russia’s FSB The Guardian - UK · Jan 26, 2023
Putin ignores German tank decision, dispenses career advice on Moscow University visit Russian President Vladimir Putin avoided commenting on Germany's landmark decision on Wednesday to supply tanks to Ukraine during a visit to Moscow State University, instead dispensing career advice to students and fielding questions on other topics. Reuters · Jan 25, 2023
High-ranking Russian officials escape Vladimir Putin's grasp to defect to the West Vladimir Osechkin knows the risks of defying Vladimir Putin and the Russian state after would-be assassins invaded his home and tried to kill his family before he escaped to France in 2015 Daily Mirror · Jan 25, 2023
‘We do our work because we are angry’: Navalny’s right-hand woman Maria Pevchikh on taking on Putin It’s two years since the arrest and imprisonment of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny. Here his deputy talks about continuing his fearless anti-corruption work – and why she won’t give up hope of his release The Guardian - UK · Jan 22, 2023
Putin's enemy fears for his life after receiving bullet and death threat in post Former FSB spy Boris Karpichkov, who received a sinister death threat, believes neither the police nor MI5 can protect him, claiming they have done little to protect him when similar threats arrived Daily Mirror · Jan 21, 2023
MI5 refused to investigate ‘Russian spy’s’ links to Tories, says whistleblower Party member lodges a complaint about the security services ignoring attempt of Russian infiltration into the Conservatives The Guardian - UK · Jan 21, 2023
Russia's FSB spy agency opens espionage case against U.S. citizen Russia has opened a criminal case against a United States citizen on suspicion of espionage, its Federal Security Service (FSB) said on Thursday. Reuters · Jan 19, 2023
Facing prison in Russia, Jehovah's Witnesses are waiting in San Diego to see if US will protect them SAN DIEGO — Twice a week, Olga Ponomareva dresses in some of her nicest clothing to stand on a sidewalk in La Jolla Shores with a display of pamphlets about the Bible. Tribune News Service · Jan 3, 2023
Head of Vladimir Putin’s secret poison labs fired after criticising war in Ukraine Vladimir Putin has removed Colonel-General Eduard Chernovoltsev from in charge of NII-2 FSB, a notorious research institute which develops deadly poisons against enemies Daily Mirror · Dec 27, 2022
Russia's FSB says Ukrainian saboteurs 'liquidated' while trying to enter border region - agencies Russia's FSB security service said on Monday that a four-person Ukrainian "sabotage group" had been "liquidated" while trying to enter Russia's Bryansk region, which borders Ukraine, on Sunday, Russian news agencies reported. Reuters · Dec 26, 2022
Daily Mirror · Dec 25, 2022 Putin being kept alive to wage war in Ukraine by foreign doctor, claims Russian expert An expert has said that Vladimir Putin’s choosing to treat his alleged condition may “have a direct impact on his situational awareness and the adequacy of the decisions" he makes about the Ukraine war
Reuters · Dec 21, 2022 Russia jails nine Jehovah's Witnesses adherents in two-day period - group A court in Russia's far east on Wednesday sentenced five Jehovah's Witnesses to more than six years in prison, just two days after four other believers were also sent to jail, the religious group said.
Birmingham Post · Dec 20, 2022 Business groups call on Government to deliver energy relief clarity The Federation of Small Businesses has branded the Government a 'Grinch' for sowing uncertainty among firms before Christmas
Daily Mirror · Dec 20, 2022 Vladimir Putin ADMITS to failures in illegally annexed Ukraine calling war 'difficult' In September, Vladimir Putin annexed four territories - Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson, Zaporizhia - as part of an illegal land grab of 15 per cent of Ukraine's lands
Los Angeles Times · Dec 16, 2022 Robin Abcarian: Is the documentary 'Navalny' a life insurance policy for the imprisoned Russian opposition leader? As Vladimir Putin wages his misbegotten war on Ukraine, there's another, quieter war he's prosecuting, this one against a 46-year-old man who sits in a Russian prison, in solitary confinement, on trumped-up charges of fraud.
The National (Scotland) · Dec 15, 2022 Economists, charities, and everyone else: How Scotland reacted to the Budget THE Scottish Government has laid out its Budget for 2023-2024 in a heated Holyrood session which saw accusations of leaking to the media fly…
Manchester Evening News · Dec 15, 2022 Who is Alexander Litvinenko’s wife Marina? ITVX is airing a new four-part drama series exploring the assassination of Alexander Litvinenko
Daily Record · Dec 15, 2022 Litvinenko: The true story behind David Tennant's new ITVX drama Tennant, 51, will be portraying ex-KGB officer Alexander Litvinenko, who was fatally poisoned in London in 2006 in the four-part mini-series.
Evening Standard · Dec 15, 2022 Litvinenko on ITVX: David Tennant’s dying spy is only the start of the story in this unshowy drama A low key, but still horrific, exploration of Alexander Litvinenko’s killing in London and the subsequent police investigation
Manchester Evening News · Dec 15, 2022 How did Alexander Litvinenko die? The shocking true story behind the ITV drama Who Alexander 'Sacha' Litvinenko was and when he died as ITV series airs starring David Tennant
The Independent UK · Dec 15, 2022 Litvinenko review: David Tennant takes a back seat in surprisingly low-stake assassination drama Armed with a distracting accent and bald cap, David Tennant plays poisoned former FSB agent Alexander Litvinenko