An oil tycoon who had links to the KGB has become the latest high profile figure to mysteriously fall from a high building in Russia. Transneft vice-president Andrey Badalov, 62, is said to have ...

MYSTERY PLUNGE Oil tycoon linked to ex-KGB spy dies after plunging 180ft from luxury apartment in latest mystery Russian exec death ...

The Russian State Duma (lower chamber of the Russian parliament) has allowed the Federal Security Service (FSB) to have its own detention centres for individuals involved in cases “against state ...

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The Cold War spy Melita Norwood, whose secret life was unmasked six years ago has died aged 93. Mrs Norwood, from Bexleyheath, south London, worked for the KGB for 40 years and was believed to be the ...

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For a gateway into hell, the innocuous brown wooden front door of 61 Freedom Street in downtown Riga is surprisingly narrow – just two feet across. Known as the Corner House, the two-foot-wide door ...

A Russian oil tycoon has died after falling from a skyscraper in a series of mysterious deaths, The Sun reports. Andrei Badalov, 62, fell from his apartment in the luxury Moscow apartment building ...

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