By contrast with the sleek subterfuge depicted in spy movie Black Bag, real-world espionage in the Putin era — as shown by sobering documentary Antidote — is a grubby, blunt-force affair. The film ...

Bulgarian journalist Christo Grozev was warned by US officials in 2023 about a potential Russian plot against him. A ...

A young Russian man has been captured after he set fire to Moscow's notorious ‘Gates of Hell' in a protest against Russia's ...

This attack resulted in the tragic death of Dawn Sturgess. Russia also used Novichok to poison Alexei Navalny in Russia in 2020. We also welcome the Technical Secretariat's response to the ...

When Donald Trump visits Russia , he should take time out from hobnobbing with the killer in the Kremlin to visit the resting place of Alexei Navalny - just as a steady queue of his supporters did ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Percival Everett's “James,” a posthumous memoir by Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny and Adam Higginbotham's acclaimed work about the Challenger disaster are among the nominees ...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said "we hope that we can finish this war this year" on the third anniversary of Russia's full-scale invasion. But he warned that Ukraine needs security ...

And more recently, the Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was poisoned with a nerve ... of the then-new and especially toxic nerve agent Novichok. Sergei Skripal, the intended victim ...

One year after Alexei Navalny’s death, the Russian opposition in exile is in deep crisis. Many in the democratic movement are engaged in painful soul-searching. Is his legacy now wasted in fruitless ...

But it’s also the place where in recent years scientists analysed samples confirming that a Novichok nerve agent had been used to poison former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter ...

On February 16, 2024, Alexei Navalny was murdered in one of Russia's roughest prisons. He was serving a 19-year sentence for various crimes, including having founded and led an "extremist ...