Russian officials on Monday appointed Gen. Andrey Averyanov, head of covert offensive operations for Russian military intelligence, to supervise the mercenary Wagner Group’s valuable operations in Africa following the reported death of its founders, Yevgeny Prigozhin and Dmitry Utkin, in a plane crash last week.
In the Labour’s deputy leader’s latest blunder, Angela Rayner accused Russia of previously carrying out a nuclear attack in Britain.
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) on Wednesday expelled eight members of Russia’s mission, cutting it down to half size, and reduced the maximum size of the mission to 10 members from 20. NATO said the individuals it expelled were “undeclared Russian intelligence officers.”
The former British Ambassador to the United States was investigated for possibly leaking secret White House information to a married CNN journalist he was reportedly having an affair with.
A paedophile former University of Cambridge research fellow who sent ex-Prime Minister Theresa May a hoax package containing a white powder, intended to appear as poison, has been jailed.
Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who has been frequently arrested and legally harassed for his unrelenting criticism of President Vladimir Putin, became seriously ill while flying from Siberia to moscow on Thursday and was placed on a ventilator. Navalny spokeswoman Kira Yarmysh claimed he has been poisoned.
British officials, particularly those in the town of Salisbury, are appalled by the release of a Russian board game that mocks the attempt to poison former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia with the Novichok nerve agent last year.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters Wednesday that U.S. sanctions against Russia for using chemical weapons in an effort to assassinate former spy Sergei Skripal would be “illegal.”
U.K.’s defense secretary Gavin Williamson on Sunday announced that British armed forces will confront Russia in the Arctic.
British prosecutors have charged in absentia two Russian citizens of conspiracy to murder over the alleged poisoning in Salisbury, Wiltshire in March.
A spokesman for Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday denounced a new round of U.S. sanctions as “categorically unacceptable” and “illegal,” while the Russian Foreign Ministry promised retaliatory sanctions are in the planning stages.
Wiltshire Police declared a major incident in the early hours of Tuesday morning after two people collapsed in Amesbury following exposure to an “unknown substance”, triggering an investigation.
The British foreign secretary has been duped into speaking to two Russian pranksters on the phone for 18 minutes, discussing sensitive security matters such as the nerve agent attack in Salisbury.
MOSCOW (RUSSIA) (AFP) – Moscow on Saturday accused the chemical weapons watchdog of manipulating the results of its probe into the poisoning of a former Russian spy, saying his samples had traces of a nerve agent used by the West.
Vasily Nebenzia, Russia’s ambassador to the United Nations, told a Security Council meeting that Britain’s allegations in the attempted assassination of Sergei Skripal are reminiscent of Nazi propaganda.
The controversy surrounding the poisoning of a former Russian double agent in Salisbury, England intensified Wednesday after Britain’s Foreign and Commonwealth Office deleted tweet accusing Russia of having produced the nerve agent used in the attack. Britain’s Foreign and Commonwealth
AFP — The head of the British military facility analysing the Novichok nerve agent used to poison former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter said Tuesday it has “not identified the precise source” of the substance.
Angela Merkel’s right-hand man Wolfgang Schäuble has said he hopes the poisoning of Russian double agent Sergei Skripal will persuade the United Kingdom to reverse Brexit and stay in the EU.
China provided cover for its ally Russia in an editorial published Tuesday by the state-run Global Times, in which evidence of Russian involvement in the poisoning of former spy Sergei Skripal is dismissed as thin, and the Western response of expelling Russian diplomats is denounced as “a crude form of behavior” and “uncivilized.”
AFP — NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg will on Tuesday unveil “measures” in response to the poisoning of a former Russian spy in Britain, the alliance said, as international pressure mounts on Moscow. NATO has warned that the nerve agent attack
Russia’s Pravda news portal, the online descendant of the infamous Soviet-era Communist propaganda sheet, responded to the expulsion of Russian diplomats from several Western nations on Monday by invoking the Cold War, referencing the remarks of the Russian ambassador to the U.S. calling the move a “tantrum”.
WASHINGTON (AP) – The United States and more than a dozen European nations kicked out Russian diplomats on Monday and the Trump administration ordered Russia’s consulate in Seattle to close, as the West sought joint punishment for Moscow’s alleged role
As expected, Russian President Vladimir Putin won re-election on Sunday and will evidently claim he passed the magic “70/70” margin he was looking for: winning over 70 percent of the vote with turnout over 70 percent.
MOSCOW (AP) — Russia on Saturday announced it is expelling 23 British diplomats and threatened further measures in retaliation in a growing diplomatic dispute over a nerve agent attack on a former spy in Britain.
LONDON (AP) — British police said Friday they have launched a murder investigation into the death of London-based Russian businessman Nikolai Glushkov after an autopsy revealed that he died from compression to the neck.
LONDON (AP) — The leaders of the United States, France and Germany joined Britain on Thursday in blaming Russia for poisoning a former spy with a powerful nerve agent, condemning what they called the first attack with a nerve agent in Europe since World War II.
The Trump administration announced sanctions on Thursday against Russian individuals and organizations accused of interfering in the 2016 U.S. presidential election. The sanctions designate five entities and 19 individuals under legislation and executive orders aimed at punishing those who engage in malicious cyber-activities.
LONDON (AP) – Britain’s prime minister was chairing a meeting of the country’s national security council Wednesday after Moscow ignored a midnight deadline to explain how a nerve agent developed by the Soviet Union was used against a former spy
Why is the BBC proving so reluctant to report on the horrific story of the 1000 young girls who, over a period of 40 years, have been groomed, drugged, serially raped and sometimes murdered by predominantly Muslim gangs in Telford, Shropshire?
Contents: Britain threatens Russia with retaliation over nerve gas poisoning of Skripal; Russia reacts with massive disinformation campaign; Skripal was attacked with Novichok, a military-grade nerve agent developed by Russia
British Prime Minister Theresa May has said the nerve agent used in an attack on a former Russian spy in a British city has been positively identified as a type manufactured by the Russian Federation, and that the Russian Ambassador to the United Kingdom was summoned Monday.
Members of the public local to the suspected nerve agent attack against a former Russian spy and his daughter have spoken out against the British government’s response to the incident, with one describing the failure to communicate with the public about the risks “diabolical”.
