Putin signs bill withdrawing from Open Skies Treaty

Putin signs bill withdrawing from Open Skies Treaty allowing surveillance flights over military facilities, following US exit from the pact Putin has signed a bill that will withdraw Russia from the pact in six months  Comes after Trump withdrew US last year, and Biden said he will not re-enter it  Pact had allowed countries including … Read more

Boris Johnson welcomes Hungarian populist leader Vickor Orban to Downing Street despite protests

Boris Johnson raised ‘significant concerns’ about human rights abuses in Hungary when the country’s strongman leader visited No10 today, Downing Street said this afternoon. The Prime Minister highlighted the right-wing populist’s attacks on ‘gender equality, LGBT rights and media freedom’ when they met in London this afternoon. It came after Mr Johnson faced widespread criticism … Read more

Vladimir Putin’s billionaire judo partner, 69, and his ex-wife in divorce showdown in London court

Vladimir Putin‘s billionaire judo partner and his ex-wife are in a bitter divorce showdown at a court in London as they battle for the ownership of their £30million mansion in Surrey.   A dispute over the ownership of a manor house near Bagshot is at the centre of the latest round of litigation featuring Russian businessman … Read more

Russian children carry toy guns and sing war songs about being ‘merciless to the enemy’

Russian children carry toy guns and sing war songs about being ‘merciless to the enemy’ and ‘dying for the Motherland’ at primary school parade Schoolchildren as young as nine were filmed parading in military uniforms Footage was captured in industrial city of Elektrostal, which lies east of Moscow  Vladimir Putin’s security official called for boost … Read more

Prince Michael of Kent received honorary professorship from one of Vladimir Putin’s cronies

This is the moment the Queen’s cousin Prince Michael of Kent received an honorary professorship from one of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s oldest and most trusted cronies.  Professor Vladimir Litvinenko, who has ‘direct links with Putin’, can be seen fawning over the Prince, 78, as he presents him with his honorary professorship for furthering Russian-British relations.  … Read more

Putin denounces return of ‘Russophobia’ during Victory Day parade

Russia has marked the  76th anniversary of victory in World War II with an annual Victory Day Parade.  President Vladimir Putin on Sunday vowed that Russia will ‘firmly’ defend national interests and denounced the return of ‘Russophobia’.  His speech to thousands of soldiers and veterans on Red Square came at the start of an annual parade … Read more

Queen’s cousin in Kremlin cash-for-access storm

Fictitious executives were told Prince Michael of Kent could be hired to endorse their company to Vladimir Putin‘s inner circle, a bombshell report claims.    The Queen‘s cousin, 78, was filmed in a Zoom meeting where undercover reporters posing as clients from South Korea were told he could be hired for £10,000 a day to make ‘confidential’ representations … Read more

Covid Russia: Putin boasts Sputnik-v vaccine are ‘as simple and reliable as a Kalashnikov rifle’

Putin claims Russia’s controversial Covid jabs are ‘as simple and reliable as a Kalashnikov assault rifle’ President Putin was welcoming the country’s fourth vaccine, Sputnik Light He said that Western nations have developed vaccines which were ‘innovative’ But he said the Russian jabs were simple and reliable like a Kalashnikov rifle  By Ross Ibbetson For Mailonline … Read more