Vlad breathes easy: Russian politicians approve lifetime immunity from prosecution for presidents following reforms announced by Putin The draft legislation would expand Putin’s immunity to cover his whole lifetime It was part of a package of reforms approved in a referendum last summer The reforms would also allow Putin, 68, to run for two more … Read more
Vladimir Putin’s daughter’s wedding photos have been leaked as a report claims his son-in-law bought a $380million stake in Russian petrochemical firm for $100 after marrying her. Kirill Shamalov, 38, bought the stake in petrochemicals giant Sibur at a massively reduced rate months after marrying Putin’s younger daughter Katerina, 34, according to the investigation by iStories. … Read more
A Royal Navy ship was given a hero’s welcome this morning as it returned to port in Portsmouth after shadowing and gatherings intelligence on Russian warships travelling around the UK. HMS Lancaster returned to the naval base in Hampshire having completed a tour to the High North where it led a freedom of navigation operation, leading a multi-national task group … Read more
Football club captain, 21, hanged himself after telling his friends ‘I’m done’ while on a night out drinking and taking cocaine, inquest hears Shaun Young had become emotional while out with friends in Pontypridd The 21-year-old football captain told his mates he was ‘done’ and ‘couldn’t go on’ His father found Shaun hanged at his … Read more
Russian hypersonic missile expert is detained on suspicion of passing top secret data to the West Associate Professor Anatoly Gubanov, 63, detained on suspicion of high treason Was being held by Russia’s counterintelligence service and faces 12 to 20 years Expert made several ‘classified’ scientific developments in hypersonic missiles He is feared to have passed … Read more
Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered his government to start mass vaccination against coronavirus from next week, with sailors, doctors and teachers first in line to get the nation’s own jab. Sputnik V has been touted in Russia as the world’s ‘first registered Covid-19 vaccine’ after it received regulatory approval in early August. However, giving the … Read more
A 17-year-old girl claimed to be Vladimir Putin‘s secret love child has said she dreams of living in London or New York. Her alleged unmasking this week comes as the Kremlin admits it is braced for further allegations about the Russian leader’s private life. There is already shock in Moscow at a sudden spate of … Read more
Russia has successfully tested a new missile capable of destroying Western satellites, followed by another weapon ‘to be used on US cities in the event of a nuclear war’. The US warned that the first missile tested will be capable of destroying Western satellites in low earth orbit. Meanwhile, Russia today claimed a successful test launch … Read more
Vladimir Putin reportedly has a secret teenager daughter whose mother is a housekeeper-turned-millionaire, according to a Russian investigative site. She is reported to be Yelizaveta Vladimirovna, a 17-year-old born of a years-long affair between Putin and her mother Svetlana Krivonogikh. Sources who spoke to investigative site Proekt said Putin and Svetlana began their affair in the late … Read more
Vladimir Putin cannot take Russia’s ‘safe’ covid vaccine because it is uncertified, Kremlin says Kremlin has said President Vladimir Putin cannot take Russia’s Covid vaccine ‘The head of state can’t take part in vaccination as a volunteer,’ spokesperson said Putin announced last month that Russia had developed a second vaccine The country registered its first … Read more