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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.

Daily Record

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

Manchester Evening News

Extreme times: polarised politics and what we can learn from the past

Compelling new ITVX drama A Spy Among Friends explores the real-life private and public fallout that ensues when MI6 agent Nicholas Elliott (Damian Lewis) discovers his decades-long colleague and friend Kim Philby (Guy Pearce) is a communist double-agent, radicalised at university and recruited by the KGB to spill top-level secrets.…

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From dead drops to laser-spying: tradecraft through the decades

New ITVX drama A Spy Among Friends explores the incredible story of two real-life MI6 spies – Nicholas Elliott (Damian Lewis) and Kim Philby (Guy Pearce) – whose decades-long friendship fell apart when Philby was revealed to be a treacherous double agent, spilling secrets to the KGB. Here historian Guy…

The Independent UK

MI5 error reveals Churchill was in on 'Valkyrie' plot to kill Hitler

Top secret wartime files mistakenly placed on the internet during the pandemic covered the attempt by Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg to blow up Nazi dictator

Wales Online

MI5 file 'bungle' during Covid revealed Churchill in on 'Valkyrie' plot to kill Hitler

Spooks dumped piles of top secret wartime files on the internet during pandemic lockdowns covering the attempt by Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg to blow up the dictator

Daily Mirror

David Tennant 'wasn't sure if image was him or Alexander Litvinenko'

Ahead of Litvinenko being streamed on ITVx the Scot's transformation into the poisoned Russian who was murdered in 2006 even fooled the Doctor Who star himself

Daily Record

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Belarus foreign minister and Putin ally dies 'after secret talks to end war in Ukraine'

Vladimir Makei, 64, was seen as the only main channel of communication to the West in dictator Alexander Lukashenko’s hardline pro-Russia regime. - he died a day after meeting with the Pope’s envoy Ante Jozić

Daily Mirror

David Tennant looks drastically different in first chilling trailer for ITVX’s Litvinenko

David Tennant looks unrecognisable in his latest TV role, as the Doctor Who actor portrays British-naturalised Russian defector Alexander Litvinenko in an upcoming ITVX drama about the former KGB officer's death

Daily Mirror

Two photos of Vladimir Putin from 1920 and 1941 have people thinking time travel is real

It feels like Vladimir Putin has been around forever, having been a leader on the world stage since 1999. Conspiracy theorists are using old photos to suggest he's older than he claims he is

Daily Mirror

Woman detained by KGB over her Tinder pictures as she is forced to apologise on video

The unnamed woman, 29, who worked as a logistics company manager, took a photo of herself wrapped in the white-red-white flag of Belarus and has now been arrested by the country's KGB service

Daily Mirror

Boris Johnson met with son of ex-KGB oligarch the day after he was sanctioned

The then-Prime Minister met with Lord Lebedev the day after his father was hit by war sanctions in Canada. Former spy chief Alexander Lebedev has faced no such crackdowns from British Authorities

Daily Mirror

David Tennant looks unrecognisable as Alexander Litvinenko in first look at ITVX drama

The Scots actor, who recently returned to his role in Doctor Who as the 14th Doctor, will portray the former KGB Officer.

Daily Record

Liz Cheney schools Marjorie Taylor Greene on Russia: ‘You stand with Putin against freedom and America’

‘Under Republicans, not another penny will go to Ukraine,’ Greene said at rally alongside Trump

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Vladimir Putin losing grip and facing regime collapse as Kremlin 'predators' circle

Competing power groups are at each others' throats and weakened Russian president Vladimir Putin can no longer control those vying for position in his close circle, it has been claimed

Al Jazeera

Are Putin’s views fascist?

The Russian leader often evokes a philosopher who praised Mussolini, but analysts are divided on Putin’s own ideology.

The Conversation

Ukraine war: Putin escalates with sabotage and 'false flag' operations leaving the west struggling to find a response

From the start of his invasion of Ukraine, the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, has employed the threat of escalation to the use of nuclear weapons as a means to deter western support. He has aimed to spread fear in Europe as a means to undermining solidarity with Kyiv. And as…

The Independent UK

KGB stooges could swing result of online Tory leadership vote, expert warns

Professor Peter Ryan said online voting is ‘always vulnerable’ to hacking – ‘especially by state attackers’.

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Vladimir Putin's ambitious defence chief Sergei Shoigu was once the 'heir apparent'. Ukraine's war could bring him down

Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu was once among Vladimir Putin's most trusted advisers but, as his military campaign in Ukraine falters, there may be a target on his back.

Evening Standard

New Cold War papers show just how far Britain has come on LGBT issues

Today MI5 is releasing a massive number of its historical files into the National Archives at Kew. Among them are papers telling for the first time the inside story of its investigation of John Vassall — the notorious KGB spy in the Admiralty until his arrest in 1962.

Wales Online

British KGB spy’s lavish Moscow lifestyle laid bare in MI5 files

Soviet Russia used John Vassall's sexuality to blackmail him into betraying Britain

Daily Mirror

'Mad and dying' Putin turns 70 as stalling war written across his 'steroid-addled face'

The Kremlin leader remains as menacing as ever ahead of his birthday on Friday, amid reports that a Russian "nuclear train" is heading towards Ukraine

Wales Online

Welsh spy whose body was found in a bag was killed by the Kremlin, claims ex MP

The death of Gareth Williams has remained a mystery ever since the spy's body was found naked in a bag padlocked from the outside

Daily Mirror

Vladimir Putin's goddaughter faces jail for 'spreading lies about Russian government'

Journalist and former presidential election candidate Ksenia Sobchak is accused of “spreading falsehoods about government agencies”, which could land her in jail for up to three years

Reuters

Analysis-Truth or bluff? Why Putin's nuclear warnings have the West worried

President Vladimir Putin's latest warning that he is ready to use nuclear weapons to defend Russia amid the war in Ukraine has made a troubling question much more urgent: Is the former KGB spy bluffing?

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