All news on the topic: Russia

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Ways Vladimir Putin has disposed of enemies from poisonings to plane crashes
The attacks range from poisoning by drinking polonium-laced tea or touching a deadly nerve agent, to getting shot at close range - while others have plunged to their deaths from an open window.
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US putting nuclear warheads in UK is a political message to 'full of s**t' Putin
Professor of Political Science Daniel Lake told The Mirror the US stationing nuclear warheads in the United Kingdom holds no significance as Washington has dozens of nuclear weapons placed across the world and he sees little chance of a WW3 as Putin is "full of sh**t"
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US nukes to be stationed in UK are gravity bombs 3 times stronger than Hiroshima
The nuclear weapons the US could send to the UK are believed to be B61-12 gravity bombs - they can be deployed from fighter jets and are said to be stronger than the Hiroshima bomb
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Five chilling signs UK and US are heading for World War 3 amid global unrest
After Defence Secretary Grant Shapps warned that we are now moving 'from a post-war to a pre-war world', we look at the warning signs that could mean WW3 is near
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US nukes to be stationed in UK for first time in 15 years over Russia threat
Pentagon documents show nuclear warheads would be housed at RAF Lakenheath in Suffolk as US and British military chiefs express fears over a war with Putin's Russia
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Friendly couple who owned bookshop ran Russian spy ring from leafy UK street
Peter and Helen Kroger appeared to be a typical friendly couple who owned a bookshop in west London but their true identities were later revealed as Russian spymasters Morris and Lona Cohen
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Top scientist fired after claiming human beings can live for up to 900 years
Dr Alexander Kudryavtsev was sacked due to his views. He had claimed up to the seventh generation are responsible for the sins of their fathers
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Chilling UK conscription warning given by British Army chief - what it all means
The head of the British Army General, Sir Patrick Sanders, believes there is a need to change the public's mindset over the possibility of citizens being called up to fight if the UK went to war
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Would you support the UK public being called up to fight Russia? Have your say
There are fears Brits could face conscription if the UK goes to war with Russia, as head of the British Army says our military is just too small to cope. Soldier numbers have fallen to below 76,000 - and the gaps need to be filled, says General Sir Patrick Sanders
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Moment Russian plane with 63 onboard nosedives sparking massive fireball
According to the Russian Defence Ministry, the plane was carrying 65 Ukrainian POWs, six flight staff, and three escorts when the II-76 military aircraft plummeted to the earth and exploded in a huge fireball
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Ex beauty queen sobs as she's arrested for throwing party under house arrest
Elena Blinovskaya, it is alleged, hid around £12.5million from the taxpayer in Russia, and is said to have violated the rules by hosting a party at New Year in the country
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Teachers dubbed boy 'lazy' – but he actually had giant parasite tumour in brain
Teachers in Chelyabinsk, Russia, thought Misha was struggling in class after he kept falling asleep but a trip to hospital - and an MRI scan - revealed the tumour
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Russian ambulance jet 'crashes in Afghan mountain after vanishing from Radar'
It is feared that six people who were aboard have been killed after the jet, understood to be operating as an ambulance is believed to have gone down in Badakhshan province
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Huge explosion rocks burning Russian gas terminal 'after drones seen in area'
At least two drones were spotted flying towards the city before the fire broke out at the gas plant close to St Petersburg in Russia, in what appears to be the latest Ukrainian strike on Russian infrastructure
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Movements of 14,000-year-old woolly mammoth linked to earliest human hunters
Researchers traced the route taken by a female woolly mammoth and discovered hunters followed the creature across several countries along its 1,000km grazing route
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Russian star caused stir with camera message at Australian Open
The Azerbaijan Tennis Federation protested to the International Tennis Federation at the Australian Open, demanding that the governing body punish Karen Khachanov.
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Russia declares state of emergency as kamikaze drone attacks target airbase
Several explosions were heard overnight in Voronezh, near the Russia-Ukraine border, after air defences reportedly shot down or electronically intercepted the drones
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Russia calls Rishi Sunak's meeting with Zelensky 'disastrous' amid bomb warning
This week British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak made a surprise visit to Ukraine where he met with Volodymyr Zelensky and pledged a further £2.5billion to help the country's war with Russia
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Decorated Putin war commander faces jail for killing woman, 18, he met at bar
Decorated Russian war commander Lt-Col Irek Magasumov, 35, who was personally awarded Russia's highest honour by Vladimir Putin is facing jail for shooting an 18-year-old woman dead
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'I lived in coldest place on Earth where water freezes before it hits ground'
Yulia Lytkina, who lives in the Sakha Republic in the east of Russia - where temperatures often plunge to -50C - can freeze her food outside in the winter - and turn off her freezer as a result
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Putin war commander 'charged with shooting dead woman he met in warzone bar'
Lt-Col Irek Magasumov, 35, will reportedly be charged with murder over the death of 18-year-old Daria Kiseleva who he allegedly shot with his army gun in Russian-occupied Luhansk
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Woman spends several minutes underground after car sucked up by giant sinkhole
A woman had to crawl out of the boot of her Mitsubishi Colt when a sinkhole suddenly opened around her car, plunging her vehicle into the ground as several passers-by came to her aid
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Russian city floods after Soviet-era pipe bursts in -15C temperatures
More than 100 homes in Novosibirsk, Siberia, have been left without power in -15C temperatures after a Soviet-era pipe burst causing widespread floods in the city
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Famous Russian sailor 'feared dead off coast' after disappearing
A Russian navy reservist lieutenant captain Roman Titov, 58, has not been heard of since December 21, 2023 when his boat went missing in the North Sea, and is now feared dead
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Vladimir Putin trying to turn gulag camps into Russian holiday hotspots
The Russian government has decided to invest in making the Far East, known for its Stalin-era Gulag prison camps, a holiday hotspot with a new 2,000 room resort being built