Oleg Gordievsky, KGB spy turned British agent, 1938-2025
Oleg Antonovich Gordievsky was born in Moscow on October 10 1938. His father, an agent with the NKVD, the KGB’s forerunner, had survived Joseph Stalin’s Great Terror, a wave of mass arrests and ...
Oleg Gordievsky, a key double agent in the Cold War, dies at 86
For more than a decade, as Cold War tensions threatened to escalate into all-out war, Mr. Gordievsky, a senior KGB officer, ...
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Oleg Gordievsky, K.G.B. Officer Turned Double Agent, Dies at 86
Image As the Cold War wound down, Mr. Gordievsky began writing under his own name, including the book “KGB ... his friend and fellow defector Alexander Litvinenko was fatally poisoned by ...
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Europe Scrambles To Reverse Decades of Military Decline Imposed by the Continent’s Liberal Elite
Russian assassins even targeted dissidents in England, poisoning and killing Alexander Litvinenko in 2006 and attempting to ... the Claremont Review of Books, Reason, the Daily Telegraph and the New ...
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From Russia with Blood: Putin’s Ruthless Killing Campaign and Secret War on the West
Her book does two things, one badly ... This is not the place, for instance, to discover anything new about Alexander Litvinenko, murdered with polonium-laced tea in November 2006 by two Russian state ...
The Australian27d
Statesman Starmer, who would have thought?
The 2018 Novichok poisonings of the Skripals, causing the death of a local woman in Salisbury, and the 2006 death of Russian agent Alexander Litvinenko, who was poisoned drinking tea at a central ...
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Russia expels two British diplomats for alleged spying
In 2006, the UK had accused Moscow of being behind the assassination of former Russian agent and Kremlin critic Alexander Litvinenko in a London poisoning attack. And in 2018, the UK and its ...
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Russia blames 'treacherous' Britain for 'instigating' both world wars in scathing verbal attack after expelling two UK diplomats for 'spying'
The UK also accused Moscow of being behind the 2006 assassination of former Russian agent and Kremlin critic Alexander Litvinenko in a London poisoning attack. And in 2018, Britain and its allies ...
The Scotsman22d
How Putin, Xi and Trump have made rejoining the EU inevitable
Whether it was the poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko in 2006, the Salisbury attack in 2018 or the Russian interference uncovered by the Intelligence and Security Committee’s Russia Report in ...
The Financial Times3d
Transcript: The making of Vladimir Putin
whether it was attempting to murder Sergei Skripal or killing Alexander Litvinenko or any of these other acts that we’ve found out about. There was always a degree of deniability, whether ...
Alexander Lincoln and Jack Brett Anderson on A Night Like This and their silent disco kiss
The classic romance explored in Before Sunrise and Before Sunset are obvious touchstones here, but Liam Calvert's directorial ...