The Russian Foreign Intelligence Service is working on creating a pro-Russian party “Right of the People” in Belarus which will advocate for integration with Russia but will oppose Alexander Lukashenko. The Kremlin and Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service have developed a so-called “plan B” for Belarus to overthrow the country’s head Alexander Lukashenko, reports the Russian publication The Insider with reference to the

On the morning of December 24, 2020, a military man in Pskov accidentally fired a cannon at the Fjord Plaza shopping and entertainment center located at the western exit of Pskov. Baza and  Pskov Province were the first to report this on the evening of December 25 . According to Baza, a 19-year-old corporal by the name of Komarov was serving a BMD-4 amphibious assault

Investigators held a confrontation between Lyubov Sobol, an employee of the Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK), and Galina Subbotina, mother-in-law of FSB officer Konstantin Kudryavtsev, the alleged accomplice in the poisoning of Alexei Navalny. A face-to-face confrontation was held in the evening of December 25, said Marina Litvinovich, a member of the Public Monitoring Commission on Facebook. Yesterday, all day for almost 16 hours,

George Blake, born George Behar, escaped Wormwood Scrubs prison in 1966 and fled to the Soviet Union where he lived until his death today ByWill StewartTom DavidsonAssistant news editor 09:50, 26 DEC 2020 UPDATED10:38, 26 DEC 2020 Notorious British traitor George Blake has died, the Russian foreign intelligence announced today. The 98-year-old spy had been living in Moscow since he escaped from Wormwood

On December 24, the Russian Constitutional Court adopted a ruling ( .pdf ), which effectively allowed the government not to comply with the decision of the international arbitration in The Hague on the payment of $ 57 billion to the former shareholders of the Yukos oil company. The BBC Russian Service drew attention to this. The Constitutional Court has prepared an explanation for