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Chess review – messy Broadway revival wastes catchy Abba songs

A 1980s concept album, from Tim Rice and Abba members Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus, is brought back to the stage with uneven results

The Guardian - US

Richard Gott, former Guardian journalist and historian, dies aged 87

Charismatic figure of the left is remembered as one of the most informed commentators on Latin American affairs

The Guardian - UK

50 Employees Who Had One Job And Still Managed To Mess It Up

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50 Employees Who Had One Job And Still Managed To Mess It Up

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Belarus expels Czech diplomat in tit-for-tat move after Prague makes spy ring accusations

The expulsion comes after Czech and Polish authorities expelled Belarusian diplomats earlier this month, as part of a wider crackdown on a European spy ring made up of agents from Belarus' KGB state security agency.

Euronews

‘We were being watched by the KGB’: how Scorpions made Wind of Change

‘A guy from our record company told me to take out the whistling. I said no way. When the song went through the roof, he came to me, bent over and said, “Kick my ass!”’

The Guardian - UK

Dau director Ilya Khrzhanovsky: my ‘pornographic propaganda’ recreating the USSR is more important than ever

When Khrzhanovsky’s colossal immersive project on the horrors of the Soviet Union launched in 2019, it caused uproar in east and west alike. Now, he plans to release its ‘mother film’, to expose the ‘huge danger’ the world faces today

The Guardian - UK

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European operation identifies alleged Belarusian spy ring

A former deputy head of Moldovan intelligence reportedly arrested for treason for ‘transmitting state secrets’

The Guardian - UK

Czech Republic and allies break up Belarus spy network across Europe

The Czech Republic’s counterintelligence agency says it has broken up a spy network being built by Belarus

The Independent UK

Czech Republic, Romania and Hungary break up Belarus spy network in Europe

The Czech intelligence agency said Belarus managed to create the network because its diplomats are able to freely travel across European countries.

Euronews

The Defector: KGB agent's defection after Soho drink drive arrest changed the shape of the Cold War

The Evening Standard scooped the world in 1971 with the first and only picture of Russian defector Oleg Lyalin, who is now the subject of a compelling new book

Evening Standard

John Bolton Says Russia's President Using 'KGB Training' To Exploit Trump: 'Good Personal Rapport' Won't Protect You From The Worst

President Donald Trump's former national security adviser John Bolton said Tuesday that Russian President Vladimir Putin is trying to exploit Trump and that U.S. policy has pushed India's prime minister closer to Moscow and Beijing.

Benzinga

50 Of The World’s Greatest Mysteries That Remain Unsolved To This Day

What unsolved mystery continues to boggle your mind?

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NCAA Hammers Michigan, Making Jim Harbaugh Most-Penalized Cheater in Sport’s History

The former coach received a 10-year show-cause penalty for his role in the Connor Stalions sign-stealing saga, tainting his and the Wolverines’ reputations.

Sports Illustrated

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Roll Call

Trump, Putin leave Alaska summit with no deal on ending Ukraine conflict - Roll Call

Trump and Putin met for three hours in Alaska, but did not announce a deal on possibly ending the Ukraine war.

Roll Call

'25 percent chance': Trump team ratchets up, down goals for Putin summit - Roll Call

President Trump and aides have raised and lowered expectations for his Friday summit with Vladimir Putin, making the meeting hard to grade.

The Independent UK

Voices: When Trump and Putin go head to head in Alaska, who wins?

COMMENT: Friday’s summit in Alaska between the two leaders to discuss how to end the war in Ukraine will show that it is the cunning former KGB officer who understands the art of the deal, says Sean O’Grady

The Guardian - UK

Derk Sauer obituary

Media proprietor and founder of the Moscow Times who championed independent journalism in his adopted home country of Russia

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Euronews

'Trump is falling for Putin's flattery'- Russian opposition activist, Kara-Murza

Russian opposition activist and former political prisoner, Vladimir Kara Murza says Western leaders’ treatment of Putin in the past was "shocking and shameful", and gave Putin leeway and erode democracy in Russia.

The Conversation

Friday essay: ‘nothing quite like it in the history of espionage’ – the Russian spies who pretended to be American

In the thrilling finale of the TV series The Americans, set during the Reagan administration, deep-cover KGB operatives Philip and Elizabeth Jennings are faced with a difficult decision. Posing as an ordinary American married couple, for decades they have raised children, filed tax returns and slipped effortlessly into the rhythms…

The Guardian - AU

From a rectal kit to a Berlin Wall-era transmitter: the artefacts of Australia’s spy museum which doesn’t exist – yet

More than a dozen intelligence services are represented in Mike Pritchard’s collection of spy gadgets. He wants to bring them to the world

The Guardian - UK

KGB defector turned to Britain only after US rejected him several times, book reveals

Vasili Mitrokhin defected in 1992 after spending years copying top-secret documents on Soviet spies and operations

Evening Standard

Wagner Group UK proxy instructed to use Cold War drama as a ‘manual’

Dylan Earl has admitted orchestrating an arson attack on a warehouse and plotting to burn down businesses and kidnap their Russian dissident owner.

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26 CIA Spy Tools So Ridiculous, People Thought They Were Movie Props

Some of the gadgets used by the CIA have been declassified. Here they are.

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31 Examples Of CIA Spy Technology That Prove Human Ingenuity Knows No Boundaries

Some of the gadgets used by the CIA have been declassified. Here they are.

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