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Ex-King of Malaysia hits back at 'cruel and vindictive' Russian model he married

Malaysia's ex-king, now Sultan Muhammad V of Kelantan, 50, has examined photos of the child his ex-wife says is his. He responded by saying the boy could be 'the son of any Asian man'.




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Ex-King of Malaysia insists son born to his Russian wife is raised a Muslim and NEVER contacts him

Oksana Voevodina, 27, insists the child is the Sultan's - conceived on a holiday in Australia - and vowed to go to court in Moscow to demand a DNA test in a bid to prove the then king's paternity.




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Police investigate 'threat to life' of Russian beauty queen's baby son

Oksana Voevodina, 27, says she was told via a friend that her son Ismail is in 'mortal danger', that she should drop her paternity lawsuit against the former Sultan of Malaysia, and stop speaking to the press.




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Russian beauty queen who married ex-King of Malaysia 'screamed at by woman claiming to be his wife'

Russian beauty queen Oksana Voevodina and her former husband the Sultan Muhammad V of Kelantan are at war after their ill-fated and short-lived marriage and battling over a financial settlement.




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Greta Thunberg wants to marry Prince George, Russian pranksters tell Prince Harry

The Duke of Sussex was duped into believing he was speaking to 17-year-old environmentalist Greta, who told him she wanted to one day marry Prince George (pictured).




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Russian Wagner mercenaries are exposed for filming horrifying video of Syrian prisoner

WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT The footage is thought to have been filmed in an oil field west of Palmyra, Syria, in 2017 as four Russian-speaking soldiers attack a Syrian national.




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Shocking moment US military vehicle runs Russian armored truck off the road in Syria

The footage, posted online, is thought to have been filmed in Qamishli, in the north east of the country, from inside a civilian car on Wednesday.




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The Fifth Man was so prickly even the Russians couldn't stand him

There have been books, articles, films and plays galore about Philby, Maclean, Burgess and Blunt, but nobody seems to know or care about the 'Fifth Man', John Cairncross




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Russian Doll co-creator Leslye Headland set to helm female-centric Star Wars show for Disney+

The Russian Doll co-creator, 39, is set to make her mark in a galaxy far, far away with the drama, Variety revealed on Wednesday.




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Footage shows Russian-built Venezuelan fighter jet 'aggressively shadowing' an American aircraft

U.S. Southern Command tweeted video and images from the incident on Friday. They say the SU-30 Flanker 'aggressively shadowed' a U.S. EP-3 aircraft.




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Putin orders Russian army to tackle massive wild fire

Environmentalists have warned that the scale of the blazes, across central and east Russia, could accelerate global warming, aside from any immediate effects on the health of inhabitants.




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Ambulances covered in protective film transport Russians 'who suffered radiation poisoning' in blast

The spike in radiation in Russia yesterday may have been caused when one of Vladimir Putin's top secret Zircon hypersonic missiles exploded during tests, according to news reports in the country.




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Russian Soyuz rocket with six-foot tall humanoid robo-naut Fedor fails to dock at ISS

Russia's Soyuz rocket with Vladimir Putin's six-foot tall humanoid robot on board has failed to dock at the International Space Stations. The setback has been blamed on issues with docking systems.




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MSNBC host Lawrence O'Donnell retracts claim that Russian oligarchs co-signed Trump's bank loans

O'Donnell claimed on the air that a source had told him 'the co-signers of Donald Trump's Deutsche Bank loans are Russian billionaires close to Vladimir Putin.' Trump's lawyers threatened to sue.




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Vladimir Putin casts his ballot in Russian local elections

Putin (pictured today) voted in Moscow elections which have taken on a rare significance after a series of candidates were detained and barred from the ballot, sparking mass protests.




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Russian media claim CIA spy in the Kremlin is 'fired' diplomat's aide

Russian media has reported that the mole extracted in 2017 may be Oleg Smolenkov, an aide of senior diplomat and former ambassador to the U.S. Yury Ushakov (pictured).




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Donald Trump did NOT blow the cover of CIA's top Russian spy

The CIA pulled a spy with deep access inside the Kremlin out of Russia in 2017 because of leaks, and not because President Donald Trump had compromised the secret agent.




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CIA asset was key source for the golden showers anti-Donald Trump dossier claims Russian

Oleg Smolenkov, the Kremlin aide named in Russia as the CIA's asset at the heart of Putin's regime tracks closely to a source described in the Steele dossier, claims Ilya Shumanov.




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Russian president Putin meets Nurmagomedov to celebrate victory over American Poirier at UFC 242 

Russian president Vladimir Putin hailed Khabib Nurmagomedov as a 'strong, tough fighter' after the unbeaten MMA fighter retained his UFC lightweight title.




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Putin's Soviet spy file declassified: Russian president's KGB profile is released to the public

A KGB profile belonging to Russian President Vladimir Putin has been released to the public at an exhibition of declassified documents at the central state archive in St. Petersburg.




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Vladimir Putin says Wikipedia should be banned and replaced with a Russian version

'It's better to replace it with the Great Russian Encyclopedia in electronic form…here it will be in any case, reliable information in a good modern form.' Putin said in Moscow on Tuesday.




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Vladimir Putin sets up Russian rival to Wikipedia after branding the online encyclopaedia unreliable

The new site costing £20.7million will be a web version of the Great Russian Encyclopaedia and show 'reliable information in a good, modern way'.




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Russian TV shows rare glimpse of one of three nuclear briefcases

The briefcase, which has a personalised key code, a flash card and is under constant supervision, is said to remotely control Russia's nuclear arsenal.




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Russian shaman who wants to rid the country of 'demon' Putin is arrested

Alexander Gabyshev was arrested two days into his planned 5,000-mile trek to Moscow, three months after his first journey was cut short when he was detained in September and flown back to Siberia.




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Donald Trump plans to meet Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov is set to meet President Trump amid the focus the congressional impeachment inquiry, CNN reported.




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Scot Young 'laundered dirty money for Russian gangsters - including Putin critic Boris Berezovsky'

Mr Young (pictured with girlfriend Noelle Reno) died after plunging onto railings below his £3m London penthouse in 2014 after repeatedly warning police and friends that hitmen wanted him dead.




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Putin's power grab: Russian President sets himself up to rule for LIFE by announcing reforms

In an address to the nation, Putin - who should step down in 2024 under the current arrangement - described how power was being shifted from the presidency to parliament.




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Anti-Putin blogger is murdered amid fears Russian hit squad is running amok in Europe 

Imran Aliev's body was found in a hotel in Lille, France, last week. The 44-year-old had vocally opposed to both Vladimir Putin and Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov.




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Russians are pranked into saying what they really think of Vladimir Putin

Bashir Dokhov fixed a large portrait of Putin to the lift in a Moscow residential block and recorded people's shocked reactions as they entered the lift.




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Countess reveals how her dream 10-year marriage to Russian Oligarch turned into a nightmare

Cameras followed Alexandra Tolstoy and Sergei Pugachev over five years for a documentary about their privileged lifestyle but as they were filming things began to fall apart.




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Russian paratroopers wearing oxygen masks and white camouflage jump from 33,000ft over the Arctic

The paratroopers reportedly jumped from a height of 10,000 metres (32,808 feet) from an Ilyushin Il-76 strategic airlifter.




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Russian billionaire who played ice hockey with Putin is found shot dead

Dmitry Bosov, 52, one of the richest men in Russia, was found dead from a gunshot wound to the head inside the private gym of his mansion in Moscow on Wednesday night.




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Florence Pugh reveals she was 'scared' of doing a Russian accent for her role in Black Widow

The actress, 24, revealed her misgivings while talking with ELLE UK on Wednesday about her role as Yelena Belova in the forthcoming Marvel flick.




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Russian volunteers search for fallen World War II soldiers

KHULKHUTA, Russia (AP) - Crouching over the sun-drenched soil, Alfred Abayev picks up a charred fragment of a Soviet warplane downed in a World War II battle...




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Russian pranksters Vovan and Lexus dupe Maxine Waters in phone call posing as Greta Thunberg

Rep Maxine Waters was duped into thinking she was speaking with Greta Thunberg in a prank phone call with Vladimir Kuznetsov and Alexey Stolyarov published on YouTube Thursday.




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Russian man saws off his own leg while high on 'zombie drug' spice

Graphic pictures showed the man lying on a hospital bed and clutching at the stump of his left leg which was cut off above the knee in the city of Projopyevsk, 2,100miles east of Moscow.




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Trump warns Democrat voters to 'be careful' of Russian interference

The Commander-in-chief took to Twitter on Saturday morning after news that Democratic front-runner Bernie Sanders was recently told by officials that Russia is trying to help his campaign.




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Trump says NOBODY has briefed him about the Russians helping Sanders campaign

President Donald Trump has denied getting told by to intelligence officials that Russia is intervening in the 2020 primaries and wants to help Bernie Sanders.




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At least 29 Turkish soldiers are killed in 'Russian' airstrike on their positions in Syria

The governor of Hatay Doğa said the soldiers had been attacked in Idlib by regime forces and as a result 'twenty-nine were martyred'.




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Jealous lover who knifed Russian beauty blogger to death in jailed

GRAPHIC CONTENT: Maxim Gareyev, 33, a highly-educated IT worker from Moscow, has been jailed for the murder of 24-year-old Ekaterina Semochkina after stabbing her to death.




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How Saudi Arabia is trying to CRIPPLE Russian oil industry by flooding world market

Saudi Arabia slashed its oil export prices over the weekend and declared a price war with Russia that sent global markets reeling and marked the sharpest decline in oil futures since 1991.




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Russian officials accused of ordering the deaths of hundreds of dogs and cats

Animal rights campaigners in Russia's coldest city, Yakutsk, have bitten back against officials who claimed that 260 dead animals were slaughtered over fears of the spread of rabies in the region.




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Devil-worshipping babysitter wearing a fake beard killed a six-month-old baby in a Russian forest

Viktoria Aimetdinova, 23, strangled, stabbed and burned baby Bogdan Gafner in a forest 'to save world from apocalypses'. She has been sentenced to forced psychiatric treatment in Russia.




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Ex-MI6 spy behind the 'dirty dossier' on Donald Trump is sued by three Russian oligarchs

The British spy behind a notorious 'dirty dossier' on Donald Trump's links to Russia is being sued by three oligarchs in the High Court (pictured, former MI6 spy Christopher Steele).




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Russian mystic flies in executive jet to 'protect Moscow and St Petersburg from coronavirus'

Orthodox elder Iliy Nozdrin was seen alongside another prominent priest with icons and a cross blessing residents of Moscow and St Petersburg. He flew in a jet above the two cities.




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Footnotes show Steele dossier 'contains falsehoods from a Russian disinformation campaign'

According to declassified footnotes from the Steele dossier, the FBI found reported falsehoods among the allegations against Trump's election campaign




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Moscow is heading for a similar level of coronavirus infection as New York, Russian virologist warns

Professor Sergei Netesov says Moscow is facing a major crisis with hospitals already in emergency mode and the health service stretched to the limit.




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Russian animal rescuers allowed to break lockdown and drive 1,600 miles to save abandoned bear cubs

Russian animal rescuers were given special permission to break lockdown and drive 1,600 miles from Tver to save three bear cubs in Kirov, Russia. The cubs were abandoned for two days.




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Coronavirus threat on International Space Station after Russian launch official tests positive

Concerns circulate whether crew aboard the International Space Station could have been infected with coronavirus prior to a launch, after a senior Russian official present tested positive.




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Russian doctor accuses Vladimir Putin of lying about coronavirus deaths

Analysts and President Vladimir Putin's political enemies wonder if his long and brutal reign might fall victim to the coronavirus crisis amid the perilous effects of the pandemic in Russia.