Vladimir Putin and sinister reason behind unusual walk could be linked to the KGB Researchers have suggested it could be linked to weapons training he received while part of the Soviet KGB. Daily Record · Mar 4, 2022
Sinister reason behind Vladimir Putin's unusual walk could be linked to the KGB Analysis of his walk appears to show Putin walking with a clear rigid leg and a right arm that remains stiff while his left swings.- which could be linked to former military training Daily Mirror · Mar 4, 2022
‘Ill-begotten gains’: Russian oligarchs named in new US sanction list over Ukraine invasion They include Russia’s wealthiest men, judo training partners, former KGB agents, founder of a troll farm, and Vladimir Putin’s personal press secretary The Independent UK · Mar 3, 2022
"This could have been stopped": Ex Russian spy hiding in Northumberland devastated by Ukraine invasion Former KGB double agent Viktor Makarov, who lives in a Haltwhistle hide out, believes Putin's threat was not taken seriously enough by western leaders Chronicle Live · Mar 2, 2022
Who is Vladimir Putin? How Russian president rose from KGB officer Russian president Vladimir Putin has been a dominant political force for decades. Daily Record · Feb 28, 2022
Russian-British businessman Lebedev pleads with Putin to end Ukraine war Evgeny Lebedev, the ennobled British-Russian media boss and son of a former KGB spy, on Monday pleaded with Russian President Vladimir Putin to end the war in Ukraine. Reuters · Feb 28, 2022
When did Putin come to power? How Putin rose from KGB spy to political dominance Putin has been the dominant figure in Russia for more than 20 years, and previously served in the KGB - the Soviet Union's intelligence and security service Wales Online · Feb 28, 2022
‘I’m a dead man walking’: ex-Russian spy says defectors in UK are at risk A Latvian double agent is getting death threats after British authorities inadvertently disclosed his alias The Guardian - UK · Feb 27, 2022
Vladimir Putin sits atop a crumbling pyramid of power Putin’s end goal isn’t Ukraine but western civilization – the hatred for which he lapped up in the black milk he drank from the KGB’s teat The Guardian - US · Feb 27, 2022
Editorial: Putin wants to break Western solidarity. That must not happen Russian President Vladimir Putin’s brutal, lawless invasion of Ukraine is the consequence of the former KGB head’s messianic vision and numerous Western miscalculations over the past two decades. President George W. Bush looked into Putin’s soul and mistakenly found him “very straightforward and trustworthy.” President Barack Obama saw a time… Tribune News Service · Feb 26, 2022
Vladimir Putin's childhood explained - from 'miracle baby' to power-crazed president Vladimir Putin was born on October 7, 1952, in Leningrad, now St Petersburg, a city that had been under siege for 900 days in the Second World War. Putin was a street kid, small for his age and bullied Daily Mirror · Feb 23, 2022
Editorial: Putin wants to undermine Western unity. Here’s why US and NATO cannot let that happen Every so often Vladimir Putin draws back the shades and gives the West a portal into what he’s thinking. He did so Monday, unspooling a rambling hourlong monologue that served as revisionist red meat for the former Soviet KGB agent’s domestic audience, and a gauntlet on the floor for President… Chicago Tribune · Feb 23, 2022
Editorial: Vlad the impaler: What is Putin’s endgame here? Vladimir Putin is wily, they say; he’s steps ahead of naive Western counterparts, ruthless at wielding his power for maximum advantage. And sure enough, there was the former KGB colonel Monday signing a piece of paper that Russia has recognized two breakaway Ukrainian regions, Donetsk and Luhansk, as independent —… Tribune News Service · Feb 23, 2022
What to stream: Learn more about Ukraine conflict with these documentaries With the conflict unfolding in Ukraine over the past several weeks and months now coming to a head, the world has been waiting in tense anticipation for the potential outbreak of war in Europe. As Russian President Vladimir Putin has threatened, postured and rattled his saber over Ukraine’s sovereignty, particularly… Tribune News Service · Feb 22, 2022
ABC News · Feb 8, 2022 ASIO Sparrow Anne Neill was a 'secret service housewife' who lived an incredible double life The Adelaide widow was a Communist Party delegate who visited the Soviet Union and met KGB spy Vladimir Petrov. She was also an ASIO secret agent.
The Guardian - UK · Feb 4, 2022 Putin’s security men: the elite group who ‘fuel his anxieties’ Russia’s growing isolation has strengthened the ‘siloviki’ who surround the president
The Guardian - UK · Jan 23, 2022 Bacon in Moscow by James Birch review – darkly funny account of art behind the iron curtain Spats, KGB threats, dodgy Soviet plumbing… a London gallerist’s vivid memoir of organising a Francis Bacon show in the USSR really brings the artist to life