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There is war in Ukraine. We have sanctions. So why would the UK Treasury help Putin’s brutal ally?

Claims that the boss of the Wagner Group, a key part of Russia’s military machine, was aided in a libel action must be run to ground, says shadow chief secretary to the Treasury Pat McFadden

The Guardian - UK

Labour asks why Treasury unit let oligarch under sanctions bring libel case

Key Putin ally who founded Wagner mercenaries attempted to ‘subvert sanctions and silence journalist’

The Guardian - UK

UK government ‘let lawyers bypass sanctions’ to help Putin ally sue journalist

Documents seen by Open Democracy show UK firm got approval to engage with Wagner group founder Yevgeny Prigozhin

The Guardian - UK

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‘We do our work because we are angry’: Navalny’s right-hand woman Maria Pevchikh on taking on Putin

It’s two years since the arrest and imprisonment of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny. Here his deputy talks about continuing his fearless anti-corruption work – and why she won’t give up hope of his release

The Guardian - UK

Bulgaria protests to Russia after journalist Grozev put on wanted list

Bulgaria protested to Russia on Thursday for putting Bulgarian investigative journalist Christo Grozev on a wanted list, with its prime minister criticising the move as an intimidatory tactic designed to muzzle free speech.

Reuters

UK Government told to act after Scottish 'ghost firm' named in $500m FBI fraud probe

THE UK Government has been accused of “outrageous” inaction after a Scottish “ghost” firm was linked to an FBI investigation into…

The National (Scotland)

Russia’s Yevgeny Prigozhin admits owning Wagner mercenary force

Businessman Yevgeny Prigozhin says he is ‘proud’ of founding Wagner Group staffed by Russian war veterans.

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Putin is banking on his friends in the Balkans to help sustain his bloody war in Ukraine

United in a sense of victimhood, Russia has an ally in far-right Serbian groups. The west underestimates them at its peril, says Michael Colborne a journalist and researcher at Bellingcat

The Guardian - UK

Russian honeytrap spy 'charmed way into NATO command posing as socialite jeweller'

A Russian agent infiltrated NATO command offices in Naples appearing to be a social climber who set up a jewellery design business and had German and Peruvian parents, according to an investigative report

Daily Mirror

Socialite who charmed Nato staff in Naples was Russian spy, say investigators

GRU officer spent decade posing as Peruvian jewellery designer, say investigative journalists

The Guardian - UK

Footage appears to show fresh atrocity against Ukrainian PoW

Russians accused of barbaric behaviour apparently seen in videos and photos from captured city of Popasna

The Guardian - UK

Brit plot to entice Russian pilots to turn against Vladimir Putin foiled, Kremlin says

Pictures released appear to show hundreds of dollars in cash being counted out to pay off soldiers and give them EU citizenship in what Russia is claiming is a British plot

Daily Mirror

Another top opposition figure in Russia handed prison term

A Russian court has sentenced a top opposition figure to four years in prison, the latest move in the Kremlin’s crackdown on opposition activists, independent media and rights groups

The Independent UK

Russia bans news outlet Bellingcat, labels it a security threat

Russia on Friday banned investigative news outlet Bellingcat and its main local partner from operating inside the country, branding them security threats.

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Disputing Russia’s claims about the attack on a mall in Kremenchuk, Ukraine

Since Russian forces attacked a mall in Kremenchuk, central Ukraine on June 27, false information has been circulating on social networks. Russia's defence ministry claimed it did not target the shopping centre, but rather a nearby ammunition stockpile, and alleged that the centre simply caught fire. The ministry also maintained…

The Guardian - UK

Evidence contradicts Russian claims about Kremenchuk mall attack

Witness accounts and expert analysis discredit Moscow’s claim fire spread from factory to empty mall

The Independent UK

New York Times investigation adds to growing body of reports blaming Israel for killing Al Jazeera journalist

Shireen Abu Akleh was shot dead on 11 May while covering raid in occupied West Bank town of Jenin

The Guardian - UK

Mass civil legal action to seek compensation for Ukrainian war victims

Exclusive: Lawyers to target assets of Russian state, military contractors and affiliated business figures across globe

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An independent probe points to Israeli gunfire in the death of a journalist

One open-source research team said its initial findings lent support to Palestinian witnesses who said Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh was killed by Israeli fire.

The Independent UK

Independent probe points to Israeli fire in journalist death

As Israel and the Palestinians wrangle over the investigation into the killing of Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, several independent groups have launched their own probes

The Independent UK

Detailed 'open source' news investigations are catching on

News organizations are using sophisticated new technologies to transform the way they conduct investigations

Financial Times

What is the toll of pulling the trigger from 1,900km away?

Russia’s war in Ukraine is raising pressing new questions about the cost of military conflict

Daily Mirror

3,000 Wagner Group mercenaries used by Russia killed in Ukraine war, MPs told

Christo Grozev of the Bellingcat website said 3,000 members of the private military company were thought to have died in the Russia-Ukraine war

ABC News

Vladimir Putin's rumoured purge over his disastrous war in Ukraine could show he fell into the 'dictator trap'

Nearly two months since he launched his invasion of Ukraine, Vladimir Putin is facing heavy troop losses, ruinous sanctions and rumours of purges and even a possible coup.

Wales Online

3,000 Wagner Group mercenaries deployed by Russia have been 'killed in Ukraine', MPs told

The director of Bellingcat has warned that western countries need to take the group more seriously

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