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In 1990, my mother fought for Romania’s freedom. Will the revolution’s children do the same?

Sunday’s election could threaten the country’s place in Europe if Russia’s dark arts and historical amnesia win the day, says Romanian-born writer Larisa Faber

The Guardian - UK

The Comedy About Spies at Noel Coward Theatre review: bungling, buffoonish hilarity

4/5 Finally, Mischief may have found a match for their smash hit The Play That Goes Wrong

Evening Standard

‘It was just the perfect game’: Henk Rogers on buying Tetris and foiling the KGB

The man who brought Tetris to the west reveals what the movie of his life got right and wrong, how he influenced Nintendo, and why he has now swapped gaming for climate change campaigning

The Guardian - UK

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Vladimir Putin: After 25 years in power, what next for Russia’s president?

From chasing rats as a child to the KGB, how 72-year-old Putin came to power – and what drives him now.

Al Jazeera

The Illegals by Shaun Walker review – gripping true stories of spies who lived deep undercover

An eye-opening account of the old Soviet tactic of embedding secret agents where you’d least expect them

The Guardian - UK

NATO must show strength, but only US can halt Putin, Duda says

In an exclusive interview with Euronews, Polish President Andrzej Duda stressed that deterrence, not fear, is NATO's best defence strategy.

Euronews

The Illegals by Shaun Walker review – Russian spies hiding in plain sight

The strange stories of the agents who lived apparently normal lives in the west as part of Soviet espionage programmes make compelling reading

The Guardian - UK

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Exposing ‘the illegals’: how KGB’s fake westerners infiltrated the Prague Spring

Kremlin’s most prized spies were sent in to Czechoslovakia to whip up the 1960s reform protests in a move then replicated across the eastern bloc

The Guardian - UK

Five Great Reads: a KGB ‘illegal’ tells all, a cold case half-solved, and ‘the Citizen Kane of rock movies’

Guardian Australia’s weekend wrap of essential reads from the past seven days, selected by Kris Swales

The Guardian - AU

CIA file about aliens attacking Soviet forces goes viral

Red Army soldiers were allegedly turned into limestone pillars by extraterrestrials in revenge for shooting down their spacecraft over Siberia, according to a declassified document

The Independent UK

‘I am not who you think I am’: how a deep-cover KGB spy recruited his own son

The long read: For the first time, the man the KGB codenamed ‘the Inheritor’ tells his story

The Guardian - UK

The rise of sextortion: inside the legal unit helping ultra-rich men in crisis

The capital is seeing blackmail cases related to sex, money and power skyrocket. Olive Pometsey investigates

Evening Standard

Oleg Gordievsky, a KGB spy who defected to the UK in the Cold War, dies at 86

Oleg Gordievsky, a Soviet KGB officer who helped change the course of the Cold War by covertly passing secrets to the UK, has died at home in England.

Euronews

KGB defector and Cold War spy Oleg Gordievsky dies age 86

Top KGB defector and Cold War spy found dead at home aged 86

The Independent UK

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Evening Standard

Oleg Gordievsky: the spy who helped avert a nuclear war

The ex-KGB officer’s intelligence was crucial to Margaret Thatcher’s contacts with Mikhail Gorbachev, whose rise to power helped end the Cold War.

The Independent UK

Top KGB defector and Cold War spy found dead at home aged 86

Code-named Hetman, Oleg Gordievsky was one of the Cold War’s most important spies

Evening Standard

Top KGB defector Oleg Gordievsky dies aged 86

Code-named Hetman, Oleg Gordievsky was one of the most important spies of the Cold War.

The Independent UK

Oleg Gordievsky, Britain's most valuable Cold War spy inside the KGB, dies at 86

Former KGB officer Oleg Gordievsky has died aged 86 in England

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The Guardian - UK

Former KGB double agent Oleg Gordievsky dies in Surrey aged 86

Soviet spy defected to Britain from Moscow under threat of exposure after supplying information to MI6 and MI5

The Guardian - UK

Oleg Gordievsky obituary

Russian spy who was the highest ranking KGB officer to defect to Britain

Evening Standard

KGB thought Lee Harvey Oswald was a 'poor shot' and other takeaways from JFK files

Donald Trump presides over release of thousands of pages of documents

Evening Standard

JFK assassination files: Lee Harvey Oswald was regarded as a ‘poor shot’ by the KGB, newly-released papers reveal

More than 1,100 files consisting of in excess of 31,000 pages have been posted on the US National Archives and Records Administration’s website

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70 Times Evil Geniuses Pretended To Be Someone Else And Got Away With It (New Pics)

From a Man United Fan on the field in full kit, pretending to be part of the team, to a Mexican guy trying to cross the U.S. bored disguised as a car seat, these people could win an Oscar for their attempts to fake it 'til you make it. The…

Evening Standard

Hundreds of Ukraine supporters condemn Trump at US embassy protest

A banner branded the US president a ‘KGB agent’ with the code name President Krasnov

Latin Times

Liz Cheney Declares Trump and Vance 'Abandoned' American Values Following Heated Showdown With Zelenskyy

Former Wyoming Representative and long-time Trump adversary Liz Cheney has commented on President Donald Trump's meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy at the White House on Friday, criticizing the 47th President for "attacking" the Ukrainian President.

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