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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 Independent UK

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.

The Week

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

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‘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

The Guardian - UK

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.

Reuters

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 Guardian - 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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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

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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Evan Gershkovich: Wall Street Journal reporter accused by Russia of espionage appears in court

Evan Gershkovic, who is being held in a former KGB prison in Moscow accused of collecting state secrets, had an appeal against his detention refused on Tuesday

Evening Standard

Russian court rejects US reporter Gershkovich's detention appeal

A Moscow court on Tuesday rejected an appeal from U.S. journalist Evan Gershkovich to be freed from pre-trial detention, meaning he will stay in a former KGB prison until at least May 29 while a spying case against him is investigated.

Reuters

Snowfall season 6 episode 9 recap: Cissy commits a shocking murder

Snowfall season 6 episode 9 sees Cissy kill a major player. Plus, a desperate Franklin tortures Teddy.

WhatToWatch

Funeral held for Vladlen Tatarsky killed by bomb - with sledgehammer next to coffin

A service with sledgehammers left by the coffin of Vladlen Tatarsky who was killed in a café bomb blast in St Petersburg, has been held

Daily Mirror

Jimi Hendrix Live in Lviv by Andrey Kurkov review – ode to a lost city

First published in 2012 and now translated into English, a whimsical love letter to Ukraine’s cultural capital from the author of Death and the Penguin

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The Independent UK

Evan Gershkovich fell in love with Russia. He now faces 20 years in prison for espionage

Diplomatic efforts to free the detained Wall Street Journal reporter are intensifying, Bevan Hurley reports

Daily Mirror

Secret KGB academy near Moscow trained up young men and women to seduce Brit diplomats

The KGB's top-secret facility in Kazan, east of Moscow, targeted young men and women from impoverished parts of Russia and trained them in Marxism, spycraft and seduction

ABC News

This woman could have stopped Vladimir Putin invading Ukraine. Now she's in exile and a jail sentence awaits her in Belarus

From exile, Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya campaigns against Alexander Lukashenko, and says the Belarusian dictator has an achilles heel that could bring victory to Ukraine against Russia.

The Independent UK

Moscow prison for US reporter was used in Stalin's purges

Lefortovo prison, where American journalist Evan Gershkovich has been jailed on espionage charges, has been a terrifying symbol of repression since Soviet times

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The Independent UK

American detained in Russia a 'brave, committed' journalist

Working as a journalist in Moscow seemed a natural fit for Evan Gershkovich, the son of immigrants from the Soviet Union who grew up speaking Russian at home in Princeton, N

Daily Mirror

Russia's arrest of US reporter is a 'retaliation' as Putin's man rules out quick swap

The case against The Wall Street Journal's Evan Gershkovich, who was arrested in Russia, could be used as a 'trump card' for exchange of prisoners with the US, a Russian lawyer claimed

The Independent UK

White House condemns Russia’s arrest of US journalist ‘in the strongest terms’

The last time an American reporter was arrested in Russia was 1986

Asharq Al-Awsat

Russia Arrests US Reporter on Spying Charge

Russia's security service arrested an American reporter for The Wall Street Journal on espionage charges, the first time a US correspondent has been detained on spying accusations since the Cold War.

The Independent UK

Russia arrests Wall Street Journal reporter on ‘espionage’ charges

US news outlet says it ‘vehemently denies the allegations from the FSB and seeks the immediate release of our trusted and dedicated reporter’

Asharq Al-Awsat

Russia Arrests Wall Street Journal Reporter for Espionage

Russia’s top security agency says a reporter for the Wall Street Journal has been arrested on espionage charges. The Federal Security Service (FSB), the top domestic security and counterintelligence agency that is the top successor agency to the Soviet era KGB, said Thursday that Evan Gershkovich was detained in the…

WhatToWatch

Snowfall season 6 episode 7 recap: everyone is gunning for Teddy

Snowfall season 6 episode 7 sees Teddy's enemies lining up to take him out. Plus, the Saint family buries Jerome.

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