Get all your news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One app.

Start reading

Get all your news in one place.

100’s of premium titles. One news app.

Start reading

The Latest Breaking News from Alexander Litvinenko

Putin would have authorised Novichok poisonings, senior officials says

Jonathan Allen told the Dawn Sturgess Inquiry that the international response would have ‘shocked’ Russia.

The Independent UK

Dismissive response to poisoning suggestions ‘disappointing’, top officer says

Commander Dominic Murphy said the officer had not ‘necessarily performed to the standard that we would have expected’.

Evening Standard

Decision to search Skripals’ home after poisoning 'still haunts me' - detective

Detective Inspector Ben Mant’s colleague Nick Bailey was poisoned with Novichok after it was smeared on the door handle of the property in Salisbury

Evening Standard

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Decision to search Skripals’ home ‘still haunts me’, detective tells inquiry

Detective Inspector Ben Mant’s colleague Nick Bailey was poisoned with Novichok after it was smeared on the door handle of the property in Salisbury.

The Independent UK

Trump wrote grateful note to Putin after Russian nerve agent attack in UK, new book claims

Putin had a ‘hold on Trump,’ retired general HR McMaster wrote in his memoir

The Independent UK

Litvinenko’s widow ‘disgusted’ by Farage and Reform UK candidate’s praise for Putin

Russian dissidents and a British ex-military official formerly stationed in Moscow say the party represents a threat to Britain’s national security

The Independent UK

Who’s to blame for the Moscow massacre?

Some Russians blame lax security for the horrific attack claimed by ISIL. But analysts recall a darker history.

Al Jazeera

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Navalny Death Must Lead To Action: Litvinenko's Widow

The death of opposition leader Alexei Navalny was a "very sad day" for Russia, and must lead to international action, the wife of murdered ex-spy Alexander Litvinenko told AFP on Saturday.

International Business Times

Alexei Navalny is the latest Putin critic to die in suspicious circumstances

The death of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny in prison was shocking, but hardly surprising. It follows a long line of fallen critics and opponents of Russian leader Vladimir Putin.

WEKU

Kremlin critics: What happens to Putin’s most vocal opponents?

During President Vladimir Putin’s rule several of his vocal critics have died or been sentenced to lengthy jail terms.

Al Jazeera

The mysterious, violent and unsolved deaths of Putin’s foes and critics

Alexei Navalny is latest of Putin’s opponents to have died over course of Russian leader’s nearly 25 years in power

The Guardian - UK

Did an arrested Uzbek ‘mafia chieftain’ organise killings of dissidents?

Twelve years ago, an Uzbek hitman tried to kill an exiled imam in Sweden. The rest may not be history, just yet.

Al Jazeera

Teenager schools government on Russian poisoning risk as Lords warned UK is ‘unprepared’

Research paper on poisoning published by 17 year-old Sophia Browder accuses government of neglecting ‘very real’ threat

The Independent UK

India's Alleged Assassination of a Dissident in Canada Highlights Repression Across Borders

No place is truly safe for dissidents when governments see no limits to their authority.

Reason

Get all your
news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One news app.

The Guardian - UK

Twenty years of ruthlessness: how Russia has silenced Putin’s opponents

From poisonings to shootings to falls from windows and now possibly plane crashes, Kremlin has been accused of numerous lethal attacks

The Independent UK

Nerve agents, poison and window falls. Over the years, Kremlin foes have been attacked or killed

Over the years, Kremlin political critics, turncoat spies and journalists have been killed in a variety of ways

Al Jazeera

Will Russia’s Putin benefit from Prigozhin’s presumed plane crash death?

The Wagner Group leader was listed as a passenger of a plane that crashed on Wednesday, but his death is unconfirmed.

The Conversation

Yevgeny Prigozhin: Wagner Group boss joins long list of those who challenged Vladimir Putin and paid the price

Two months after challenging Vladimir Putin’s leadership in an apparent but abortive “mutiny”, Yevgeny Prigozhin – the former owner of the mercenary private military company Wagner Group – has joined a long list of prominent Russians to die in mysterious circumstances.

Get all your
news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One news app.

The Independent UK

UK watching closely following reports of Wagner chief’s death in plane crash

Yevgeny Prigozhin was reportedly killed in a crash more than 180 miles north of Moscow.

The Conversation

What's in vapes? Toxins, heavy metals, maybe radioactive polonium

If you asked me what’s in e-cigarettes, disposable vapes or e-liquids, my short answer would be “we don’t fully know”.

The Guardian - UK

Putin has become a global bogeyman. Russians must exorcise this ghoul

Accursed, ostracised but heedless of the misery he causes, this accused war criminal is dragging his people into a moral abyss

The Week

Yevgeny Prigozhin and the other Kremlin contenders who could replace Vladimir Putin

Vladimir Putin’s disastrous military defeats, his nuclear sabre-rattling and his endless raising of the stakes in Ukraine have forced even staunch pro-Kremlin commentators to question his decisions.

Daily Mirror

'I watched Litvinenko die and treated 7/7 victims but Covid pushed me to breaking point'

Dr Jim Down, consultant of critical care and anaesthesia, came to public prominence during the Covid-19 pandemic when BBC crews interviewed him

WhatToWatch

Litvinenko ITV drama: release date, cast, plot and everything we know about the David Tennant series

ITV1's Litvinenko ITV drama will see the Scottish star taking on the role of the doomed Russian security services officer.

Al Jazeera

How Putin’s taste for jail jargon changed Russia

Growing up in St Petersburg, Russia’s leader was fascinated with prison songs and sambo, a form of wrestling.

1 2 3 4

People

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Organisations

The Metropolitan Police

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Topics

Places

Fourteen days free

Download the app

One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.