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Vladimir Putin poised to axe security service head as scapegoat for failing Ukraine war

Sources say axing Alexander Bortnikov could be seen as an attempt to pin the blame on Vladimir Putin's failing war against Ukraine or even to prevent a possible coup among figures vying for prowess

Daily Mirror

Businesses locked into costly years-long energy contracts left without much help, MPs told

‘You’ve got lots of businesses that are locked in at very high rates,’ UKHospitality’s chief executive said.

The Independent UK

Survey launched aims to understand small business trading conditions and challenges

SMALL businesses in Scotland are being urged to take part in

The National (Scotland)

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Scottish small businesses to be surveyed on trading struggles

The aim of the study is to give small traders north of the border a louder voice to ensure their views are better represented to policy-makers.

The Independent UK

Federation of Small Businesses launches state of the nation survey

Organisation is looking to gather the views of Scottish small businesses to inform its policy-making

Insider UK

Small business confidence plunges to lowest level since second Covid lockdown, report finds

The latest small business index from the FSB found that headline confidence fell to the lowest result since Q4 2020

Birmingham Post

Ukrainian security service ‘needs cleanout’ after arrest of accused spy

Former security official Viktor Yahun says Ukraine’s SBU agency has long been overly close to Russia’s FSB

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Putin ignores German tank decision, dispenses career advice on Moscow University visit

Russian President Vladimir Putin avoided commenting on Germany's landmark decision on Wednesday to supply tanks to Ukraine during a visit to Moscow State University, instead dispensing career advice to students and fielding questions on other topics.

Reuters

High-ranking Russian officials escape Vladimir Putin's grasp to defect to the West

Vladimir Osechkin knows the risks of defying Vladimir Putin and the Russian state after would-be assassins invaded his home and tried to kill his family before he escaped to France in 2015

Daily Mirror

‘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

Putin's enemy fears for his life after receiving bullet and death threat in post

Former FSB spy Boris Karpichkov, who received a sinister death threat, believes neither the police nor MI5 can protect him, claiming they have done little to protect him when similar threats arrived

Daily Mirror

MI5 refused to investigate ‘Russian spy’s’ links to Tories, says whistleblower

Party member lodges a complaint about the security services ignoring attempt of Russian infiltration into the Conservatives

The Guardian - UK

Russia's FSB spy agency opens espionage case against U.S. citizen

Russia has opened a criminal case against a United States citizen on suspicion of espionage, its Federal Security Service (FSB) said on Thursday.

Reuters

Facing prison in Russia, Jehovah's Witnesses are waiting in San Diego to see if US will protect them

SAN DIEGO — Twice a week, Olga Ponomareva dresses in some of her nicest clothing to stand on a sidewalk in La Jolla Shores with a display of pamphlets about the Bible.

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Daily Mirror

Head of Vladimir Putin’s secret poison labs fired after criticising war in Ukraine

Vladimir Putin has removed Colonel-General Eduard Chernovoltsev from in charge of NII-2 FSB, a notorious research institute which develops deadly poisons against enemies

Reuters

Russia's FSB says Ukrainian saboteurs 'liquidated' while trying to enter border region - agencies

Russia's FSB security service said on Monday that a four-person Ukrainian "sabotage group" had been "liquidated" while trying to enter Russia's Bryansk region, which borders Ukraine, on Sunday, Russian news agencies reported.

Daily Mirror

Putin being kept alive to wage war in Ukraine by foreign doctor, claims Russian expert

An expert has said that Vladimir Putin’s choosing to treat his alleged condition may “have a direct impact on his situational awareness and the adequacy of the decisions" he makes about the Ukraine war

Reuters

Russia jails nine Jehovah's Witnesses adherents in two-day period - group

A court in Russia's far east on Wednesday sentenced five Jehovah's Witnesses to more than six years in prison, just two days after four other believers were also sent to jail, the religious group said.

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Birmingham Post

Business groups call on Government to deliver energy relief clarity

The Federation of Small Businesses has branded the Government a 'Grinch' for sowing uncertainty among firms before Christmas

Daily Mirror

Vladimir Putin ADMITS to failures in illegally annexed Ukraine calling war 'difficult'

In September, Vladimir Putin annexed four territories - Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson, Zaporizhia - as part of an illegal land grab of 15 per cent of Ukraine's lands

Los Angeles Times

Robin Abcarian: Is the documentary 'Navalny' a life insurance policy for the imprisoned Russian opposition leader?

As Vladimir Putin wages his misbegotten war on Ukraine, there's another, quieter war he's prosecuting, this one against a 46-year-old man who sits in a Russian prison, in solitary confinement, on trumped-up charges of fraud.

The National (Scotland)

Economists, charities, and everyone else: How Scotland reacted to the Budget

THE Scottish Government has laid out its Budget for 2023-2024 in a heated Holyrood session which saw accusations of leaking to the media fly…

Manchester Evening News

Who is Alexander Litvinenko’s wife Marina?

ITVX is airing a new four-part drama series exploring the assassination of Alexander Litvinenko

Daily Record

Litvinenko: The true story behind David Tennant's new ITVX drama

Tennant, 51, will be portraying ex-KGB officer Alexander Litvinenko, who was fatally poisoned in London in 2006 in the four-part mini-series.

Evening Standard

Litvinenko on ITVX: David Tennant’s dying spy is only the start of the story in this unshowy drama

A low key, but still horrific, exploration of Alexander Litvinenko’s killing in London and the subsequent police investigation

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