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Vadim Bakatin, last head of Soviet KGB, dies at 84

Vadim Bakatin, a liberal politician who briefly headed the Soviet KGB in the months leading up to the collapse of the USSR, has died at the age of 84, Russian state media said on Monday.

Reuters

‘I hate them’: Dmitry Medvedev’s journey from liberal to anti-western hawk

Critics say former Russian leader’s furious tirades are a desperate attempt to retain political relevance

The Guardian - UK

The inside story of the Cold War double agent who says he was abandoned after decades of service

‘M’ tells Eleni Braat and Ben de Jong about his life and how, in the end, he was deserted by the paymasters he had served

The Independent UK

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Biden, Putin, A Notorious Russian Terrorist And A Medical Marijuana-Possessing Female Basketball Player: A Drama Update

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Friday that he is open to a call with U.S.

Benzinga

Evgeny Lebedev wanted private Russia trip for Johnson when mayor of London

Weekend trip was discussed in 2013 at Moscow dinner with London mayor’s chief of staff and Lebedev’s ex-KGB agent father

The Guardian - UK

Invisible ink, coded papers add mystery to ID theft case

Bobby Edward Fort enlisted in the Coast Guard in 1994 and retired 22 years later with a secret security clearance that allowed him to land a job in Honolulu as a defense contractor

The Independent UK

Married couple charged for using identities of dead children for decades

US authorities say Walter Glenn Primrose and Gwynn Darle Morrison, who lived for years using the names of two dead infants, should be held without bail on charges of identity theft

The Independent UK

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Married Hawaii couple charged with conspiring against US government after allegedly using names of dead children as fake identities

Prosecutors say the pair used the names of dead children and other aliases as fake identities and had old photos of themselves in Russian spy agency uniforms.

ABC News

Revealed: untold story of the CIA/Stasi double agent abandoned after 22 years of service

I was naked, tied to a hard chair with handcuffs. Three or four burly fellows in uniform are standing around me, one of them behind me with a truncheon… ‘Sie sind ein Verräter! [You are a traitor!],’ they snap.

The Conversation

UK's Boris Johnson defends meeting ex-KGB agent at party

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has defended meeting a Russian oligarch with a KGB past

The Independent UK

Johnson claims meeting with former KGB officer Lebedev was not pre-arranged

Johnson said officials were aware in advance he was attending an event at the house of the Russian oligarch’s son, Evgeny Lebedev, in Italy

The National (Scotland)

Johnson insists meeting with former KGB officer Lebedev was not pre-arranged

The Prime Minister said officials were aware in advance he was attending the event.

The Independent UK

'Clumsy' Vladimir Putin hobbles down steps with arm stiff by side as he arrives in Iran

Bizarre footage of the Russian leader shows his right arm completely rigid and not moving as he walked down the red carpet which was rolled out at Mehrabad airport

Daily Mirror

Boris Johnson and the Lebedevs: how I exposed the prime minister’s defining scandal

The ties between the PM and an ex-KGB officer, first revealed in the Observer three years ago, could be Johnson’s lasting legacy

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Newcastle Herald

Newcastle man's time in the circus, amid tales of tigers and the KGB

'The first thing the Sumatra tigers would do was pee.'

The Independent UK

Johnson’s meeting with Lebedev may have been ‘serious security breach’ – Labour

Yvette Cooper branded a private encounter between the then foreign secretary and the Russian oligarch as ‘unthinkable’.

The Guardian - UK

Labour calls for investigation into Boris Johnson’s private meeting with ex-KGB agent Alexander Lebedev

Prime minister only admitted last week to the meeting, held immediately after Nato summit

The Guardian - UK

Scandalous legacy: as Johnson heads for the exit, many issues remain unresolved

Several questions about events during chaotic reign – from Wallpapergate to Partygate – may never be fully answered

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Daily Mirror

Boris Johnson's 'complete disregard for national security' over ex-KGB spy

Labour tore into the Prime Minister after he finally admitted meeting Alexander Lebedev

The Guardian - UK

MP asks if ex-KGB agent tried to arrange private Johnson and Lavrov call

Yvette Cooper requests more details about Boris Johnson’s meeting with Alexander Lebedev in Italy in 2018

The Guardian - UK

Putin says Russia is only just getting started in Ukraine – as it happened

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The Guardian - UK

Russia-Ukraine war update: what we know on day 134 of the invasion

Russian attacks intensify in Donetsk; civilians continue to flee from Sloviansk as Moscow’s forces press towards the eastern Ukrainian city

The National (Scotland)

Boris Johnson admits he met ex-KGB officer without officials present

BORIS Johnson met Russian oligarch Alexander Lebedev without officials present while foreign secretary, he has told MPs.

The Independent UK

Boris Johnson admits he met former KGB officer Lebedev without officials present

The meeting occurred while Mr Johnson was foreign secretary.

Daily Mirror

Boris Johnson finally admits he met ex-KGB agent on secretive jolly to Italy

The Prime Minister was quizzed about the 2018 meeting when he appeared at the Commons Liaison Committee as his premiership hangs by a thread

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