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Meet the man leading the front-line effort in Ukraine's cyber war with Russia

Illia Vitiuk is a top Ukrainian intelligence official. For him, the war with Russia is primarily in cyberspace — and in a rare exclusive interview with NPR, he says it's far from over.

WEKU

Will Russia’s Putin benefit from Prigozhin’s presumed plane crash death?

The Wagner Group leader was listed as a passenger of a plane that crashed on Wednesday, but his death is unconfirmed.

Al Jazeera

Soviet spies in Africa: How the KGB expanded Russian influence during the Cold War

Russian influence in Africa has deep historical roots, from supporting an attempted coup in Ghana to spreading fake political news in Algeria and training African fighters in Crimea. FRANCE 24 looks back on four little-known Soviet operations aimed at furthering Russian interests in Africa during the Cold War

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From Khrushchev’s KGB to Putin: the deep roots of Russian influence in Africa

When Russian President Vladimir Putin develops his network of influence in Africa, he isn’t doing so at random. He is drawing on the rich history of Soviet relations with African countries that dates back to the 1960s and the efforts made by Russian spies during the Cold War to counter…

France 24

Cillian Murphy’s best films ahead of Oppenheimer, from 28 Days Later to Inception

From Irish war films to DC blockbusters, Murphy has made some incredible films

Evening Standard

Can Putin recover from the Wagner mutiny?

Russia’s elites are distancing themselves from Putin, even if they won’t revolt just yet, say analysts.

Al Jazeera

What will Russia look like after Putin?

Analysts are forecasting that Vladimir Putin’s two-decade stint at Russia’s helm could be nearing its end after the attempted coup staged by the Wagner Group.

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Italy's secret service monitoring Lebedev villa at time of Boris Johnson visit

ITALY’S secret intelligence service were monitoring the Lebedev family’s luxury villa at the time Boris Johnson visited while serving as foreign…

The National (Scotland)

When life imitates art: can literature help explain the ‘mutiny’ in Russia?

With no reliable, independent reports coming out of Russia, it’s hard to know what’s fact and what’s fiction about the Wagner group’s revolt.

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Links to the KGB? Come on, guys. Lord Lebedev just wants to be a public servant

Stop banging on about lapdog politicians and garden parties for the powerful. Why can’t we just see Evgeny as a great success, asks Guardian columnist Marina Hyde

The Guardian - UK

Editorial: Russian roulette: Yevgeny Prigozhin’s Wagner Group rebellion sputters out but the Ukraine war continues

During the failed August 1991 putsch in Russia, the good guys were reformers Mikhail Gorbachev and Boris Yeltsin. The bad guys were an incompetent claque of the military and KGB within the Politburo and the rebellion fizzled when Yeltsin climbed on that tank in Moscow. The Kremlin’s nukes were kept…

Tribune News Service

Italy ‘was monitoring Lebedev villa at time of Boris Johnson visit’

Intelligence service believed property was being used for espionage purposes, documentary claims

The Guardian - UK

Desperate insiders 'tried to get the Queen to stop Boris Johnson making peerage'

The former PM has been heavily criticised after elevating Evgeny Lebedev to the House of Lords, with sources claiming officials took the unprecedented step of turning to Buckingham Palace to block the nomination

Daily Mirror

Queen was asked to block Evgeny Lebedev’s peerage, claims documentary

Exclusive: Channel 4 film says officials contacted the palace in 2020 owing to concerns about Lord Lebedev’s father’s links to Putin regime

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Captivated by Secret Invasion? Stream these 6 underrated spy shows on Netflix, Max, Disney Plus, and more next

Secret Invasion arrives on Disney Plus on June 21 – here are six other thrilling spy series to watch after it.

Los Angeles Times

Super spy or paper pusher? How Putin's KGB years in East Germany helped shape him

DRESDEN, Germany — Meticulous. Reticent. Clever, but never showy about it. Ever the watcher.

The Independent UK

Cop, father, traitor, spy: How Robert Hanssen’s pious life masked a career of treason

The arrest of traitor FBI agent Robert Hanssen devastated US intelligence agencies, raising more than a few questions about how he’d sold secrets for more than two decades. The spy met his inglorious end in a Colorado jail cell this week - but his brazen path of treason remains a…

The Week

Cradle to Kremlin: how Putin’s childhood casts a shadow

Ever since Vladimir Putin ordered the invasion of Ukraine in 2022, and with no end to the conflict in sight, many commentators have tried to explain what motivates the Russian president.

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The Guardian - UK

Ukrainian sanctions on media tycoon Alexander Lebedev revealed

The Russian businessman is the father of Evgeny Lebedev, who was given a peerage by Boris Johnson

The Guardian - UK

‘I’m insanely thankful to the president’: how a Belarus dissident became an apologist for the regime

Raman Pratasevich was dragged off a plane and imprisoned two years ago. Now he praises the regime he used to denounce

Reuters

First Russian hypersonic missile scientist to go on trial for treason next week

The first of three Russian hypersonic missile scientists to be arrested on suspicion of treason will go on trial next week, the court handling the case said on Wednesday.

The Guardian - UK

The Rooster House by Victoria Belim review – secrets and lies in Ukraine

A woman’s quest to uncover her family’s difficult past reveals broader truths about the present conflict

The Independent UK

What really happened at Chernobyl? How the world’s worst nuclear accident happened

Decades after the catastrophe, now a byword for state secrecy, crucial elements remain a mystery, Andy Gregory writes

The Independent UK

What really happened at Chernobyl? How the world’s worst nuclear accident happened

Decades after the catastrophe, now a byword for state secrecy, crucial elements remain a mystery, Andy Gregory writes

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Is the Apple TV Plus Tetris movie true to life? Two things it gets wrong (and three things it gets right)

Apple TV Plus has a hit on its hands with the true-story movie about extracting Tetris from behind the Iron Curtain. But as almost always happens when real stories become films, some of the most dramatic bits never happened.

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