Russia suicide bomb attack: Six police officers are injured near Russian FSB headquarters 

Suicide bomber ‘screaming Allahu Akbar’ injures six people in attack on a Russian FSB headquarters Russian officers were moving in to arrest the bomber when he blew himself up The explosion reportedly injured six people including officers and a passerby It occurred on Friday near a FSB counterintelligence service’s office, Uchkeken The village is in the volatile … Read more

Female Russian beauty pageant soldier is fired

A soldier who won a beauty contest in Russia‘s National Guard has claimed ‘envy’ is behind her axing from the service which is under Vladimir Putin‘s direct command. Mother-of-one Anna Khramtsova, 32, beat more than one thousand entrants to win the national contest last year. But now she has been fired ostensibly for posting a … Read more

Russian girl freezes to death: Three-year-old ‘sleepwalked into unheated 5F (-15C) hallway’

Girl, three, freezes to death after ‘sleepwalking into unheated 5F (-15C) hallway’ without her parents realising in Russia Angelina, three, was found dead in the unheated hallway of her Russian home Temperatures in the space dropped down to 5 F (-15 C) on December 4  She was found by her mother Svetlana Kuleshova, 23, after not … Read more

Russian billionaire would rather ‘burn’ fortune than pay ex-wife divorce bill

A Russian billionaire said he would rather ‘burn’ his money than pay his ex-wife’s divorce settlement, a court heard yesterday. Oligarch Farkhad Akhmedov is alleged to be hiding millions owed to his former spouse in Russia to avoid making a payout ordered by a British court. Tatiana Akhmedova, 48, who describes herself as ‘Russian by … Read more

Putin practices for nuclear war: Russia shows off its full nuclear triad

Putin practices for nuclear war: Russia launches missiles from submarines, underground silos and aircraft in major strategic drill Russia’s full nuclear triad demonstrated in footage shared by Russian military The strategic drill was reportedly under President Vladimir Putin’s command Exercises included a missile fired from a nuclear submarine in the Barents Sea Several long-range cruise missiles were … Read more

Russian naval incursions into British waters soar by 26%

Russia has dramatically increased naval and air operations near Britain, raising fears Moscow is exploiting the pandemic to test UK responses. The Royal Navy has been forced to deploy 17 times this year to escort Russian vessels passing through British waters, figures reveal. This is up 26 per cent on last year. Moscow has also increased … Read more

Good luck with that! Russians are told to lay off alcohol for nearly two months around Covid jabs 

Good luck with that! Russians are told to lay off alcohol for nearly two months after Covid jabs Consumer safety watchdog head Anna Popova issued the advice on Tuesday  Sputnik V vaccine recipients should avoid alcohol for two weeks before jab, she said, then for 42 days after the first injection The drug’s developer was … Read more

FireEye, one of the world’s biggest cyber security firms, is hacked ‘by Russians’

FireEye, one of the world’s largest cyber security firms, announced on Tuesday that it had been hacked by ‘a highly sophisticated state-sponsored adversary’, which a source said is likely to be Russia.  The company announced the breach in a blog post Tuesday revealing the hackers stole valuable hacking tools – known as Red Team tools – … Read more

Thieves strike Russia’s ‘Doomsday plane’ flying command centre that can survive nuclear war

Thieves strike Russia’s ‘Doomsday plane’ flying command centre that can survive nuclear war: Crooks steal radio equipment as plane is upgraded Thieves broke into one of Russia’s rare Ilyushin Il-80 Maxdome aircraft on Friday They stole 39 pieces of equipment from the plane in a major security breach The plane was being given an upgrade at … Read more