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Poison, a plane crash and falling from a window: How Putin’s critics and rivals have met mysterious ends

IN FOCUS: Alexei Navalny is latest in long line of Vladimir Putin’s critics who have died in recent years. James C. Reynolds, Gustaf Kilander and Alexander Butler report

The Independent UK

Will Ponies Get Renewed For Season 2 After That Cliffhanger Ending? What The Creators Say

Giddy up!

Cinemablend

I Binged Emilia Clarke's Ponies, And I Have So Many Questions I Need Answered In Season 2

They really left us hanging with that finale.

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GOP hawks show contrast with Trump on European allies

Remarks form the latest rebuttal from mainstream GOP hawks to Trump’s distancing of America from its traditional NATO allies.

Roll Call

Aldrich Ames obituary

CIA officer who betrayed western intelligence assets and espionage operations to the Soviet Union and Russia

The Guardian - UK

Putin as a Russian James Bond? Jude Law’s Vladimir film seems to have swallowed Kremlin myths

In The Wizard of the Kremlin, Jude Law plays Russia’s president as a cool, reluctant leader, a strategist who got the job because he was young, athletic and a spy. This is a creation far removed from the man himself

The Guardian - UK

Producer Claims Rebel Wilson's Minions Used 'Vindictive Smear Campaigns', 'Ghislaine Maxwell' Slur In Row

Rebel Wilson's directorial debut The Deb spirals into a legal nightmare amid claims of 'smear campaigns' and harassment. Read the full story on the lawsuits here.

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Six great reads – best of 2025: a deep-cover KGB agent, Zadie Smith on Tracy Chapman, and the boy who came back

Need something brilliant to read over the holidays? Here are six of our best pieces from 2025. Look out for part two next Saturday

The Guardian - UK

The Secret Life of Aliia Roza, Former Russian Operative Turning Trafficking Foes into Fashion Icons

From elite Russian intelligence operations to global fashion stages, Aliia Roza reveals how a former secret agent reinvented herself while exposing the dark mechanics of manipulation and trafficking.

International Business Times UK

Chess review – messy Broadway revival wastes catchy Abba songs

A 1980s concept album, from Tim Rice and Abba members Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus, is brought back to the stage with uneven results

The Guardian - US

Richard Gott, former Guardian journalist and historian, dies aged 87

Charismatic figure of the left is remembered as one of the most informed commentators on Latin American affairs

The Guardian - UK

50 Employees Who Had One Job And Still Managed To Mess It Up

Do you consider yourself a curious soul?

Bored Panda

50 Employees Who Had One Job And Still Managed To Mess It Up

Do you consider yourself a curious soul?

Bored Panda

Belarus expels Czech diplomat in tit-for-tat move after Prague makes spy ring accusations

The expulsion comes after Czech and Polish authorities expelled Belarusian diplomats earlier this month, as part of a wider crackdown on a European spy ring made up of agents from Belarus' KGB state security agency.

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The Guardian - UK

‘We were being watched by the KGB’: how Scorpions made Wind of Change

‘A guy from our record company told me to take out the whistling. I said no way. When the song went through the roof, he came to me, bent over and said, “Kick my ass!”’

The Guardian - UK

Dau director Ilya Khrzhanovsky: my ‘pornographic propaganda’ recreating the USSR is more important than ever

When Khrzhanovsky’s colossal immersive project on the horrors of the Soviet Union launched in 2019, it caused uproar in east and west alike. Now, he plans to release its ‘mother film’, to expose the ‘huge danger’ the world faces today

The Guardian - UK

European operation identifies alleged Belarusian spy ring

A former deputy head of Moldovan intelligence reportedly arrested for treason for ‘transmitting state secrets’

The Independent UK

Czech Republic and allies break up Belarus spy network across Europe

The Czech Republic’s counterintelligence agency says it has broken up a spy network being built by Belarus

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Czech Republic, Romania and Hungary break up Belarus spy network in Europe

The Czech intelligence agency said Belarus managed to create the network because its diplomats are able to freely travel across European countries.

Evening Standard

The Defector: KGB agent's defection after Soho drink drive arrest changed the shape of the Cold War

The Evening Standard scooped the world in 1971 with the first and only picture of Russian defector Oleg Lyalin, who is now the subject of a compelling new book

Benzinga

John Bolton Says Russia's President Using 'KGB Training' To Exploit Trump: 'Good Personal Rapport' Won't Protect You From The Worst

President Donald Trump's former national security adviser John Bolton said Tuesday that Russian President Vladimir Putin is trying to exploit Trump and that U.S. policy has pushed India's prime minister closer to Moscow and Beijing.

Bored Panda

50 Of The World’s Greatest Mysteries That Remain Unsolved To This Day

What unsolved mystery continues to boggle your mind?

Sports Illustrated

NCAA Hammers Michigan, Making Jim Harbaugh Most-Penalized Cheater in Sport’s History

The former coach received a 10-year show-cause penalty for his role in the Connor Stalions sign-stealing saga, tainting his and the Wolverines’ reputations.

Roll Call

Trump, Putin leave Alaska summit with no deal on ending Ukraine conflict - Roll Call

Trump and Putin met for three hours in Alaska, but did not announce a deal on possibly ending the Ukraine war.

Roll Call

'25 percent chance': Trump team ratchets up, down goals for Putin summit - Roll Call

President Trump and aides have raised and lowered expectations for his Friday summit with Vladimir Putin, making the meeting hard to grade.

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