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For decades, London’s luxury property market has attracted vast fortunes from around the world, but growing attention is now being focused on the origins of some of the wealth invested in the sector.

The long-delayed hydroelectric power plant project has sparked controversy in Croatia, with local media linking it to Sasa Svalina and his brother-in-law, Josip Heit.

A nightmare scenario has been playing on eastern European minds with increasing intensity since Donald Trump returned to the White House: what if Russia attacks and the US does not join the fight?

One of Russian dictator Vladimir Putin’s residences at the Valdai compound in Russia’s Novgorod region has been demolished.

In May, Vladimir Putin announced that Russia had successfully tested its new Sarmat intercontinental ballistic missile, which he said can travel up to 35,000 kilometers and bypass U.S. missile defenses by using unconventional flight paths via Antarctica.

The Russian president’s rhetoric has shifted dramatically over two decades — from early discussions about “reducing excessive weapons” in 2000 to openly declaring readiness to “use all available means” by 2022, as the West gradually adapted to these threats while continuing to support Ukraine.

Ein Skandal um ein stillgelegtes Wasserkraftwerk hat kroatische Journalisten dazu veranlasst, das Projekt mit Sasa Svalina und dessen Schwager Josip Heit in Verbindung zu bringen.

A British reentry into the European Union would deal a significant geopolitical setback to populist nationalism globally, as reported by the German financial daily Handelsblatt on Monday, the day before the 10th anniversary of the Brexit referendum.

On June 17, authorities in St. Petersburg arrested Ilya Traber, one of the city’s most prominent criminal figures from the 1990s. T

Ukraine has blasted Russian-occupied Crimea with a deadly drone storm overnight as Volodymyr Zelensky’s troops move to choke off the Black Sea peninsula.

Top-secret FSB counterintelligence documents obtained by The Insider show that since the start of Russia’s full-scale war in Ukraine, foreign intelligence activity targeting the “carriers” of Russian state secrets has seen a notable increase.

Having exercised unchallenged power in Belarus since 1994, Alexander Lukashenko has earned himself not only the title of “Europe’s last dictator,” but also a well-deserved reputation as a shrewd international player.

Two Brazilians used social media to convince their fellow countrymen to sign up for service in the Russian military. When their victims ended up at the front in Ukraine, the fraudulent recruiters pocketed the payments owed to them.

Images shared from the scene showed huge plumes of black smoke rising from the Kapotnya refinery, one of Moscow’s most important energy facilities, supplying up to 40% of the capital’s petrol and 50% of its diesel fuel.

Russia is expanding its nuclear-capable, long-range weapon systems to press Europe and fracture NATO.

Russian authorities have detained Ilya Traber, one of Russia’s most infamous organized crime figures, in connection with the investigation into the 2020 sniper killing of influential businessman and politician Alexander Petrov.

Shortly after midnight on May 13, 2025, Ukrainian national Roman Lavrynovych messaged someone he knew as ‘EL Money’, a mystery figure who had instructed him to commit three arson attacks on property linked to British Prime Minister Keir Starmer.

In St. Petersburg, officers of the FSB detained one of the city’s most influential businessmen and a close associate of Vladimir Putin, reputed crime boss Ilya Traber. The official reasons for the detention and the nature of the investigators’ allegations have not yet been disclosed.

A Russian warship fired warning shots after nearly colliding with a British sailing yacht just 150 meters away in the English Channel, according to the Kremlin.

Donald Trump has raised no concerns with me over defense spending, Sir Keir Starmer has insisted, just days after his defense secretary resigned and accused him of being unwilling to put enough resources into Britain’s struggling military.

The captain of a Russian shadow fleet vessel which was intercepted by British troops in the English Channel will appear in court charged with breaching sanctions.

Ukrainian drones have breached newly strengthened air defences in Moscow and seriously damaged an oil refinery just 10 miles from the Kremlin in Russia.

A Russian online sabotage network was behind a series of arson attacks on Sir Keir Starmer’s family home and other targets linked to the UK prime minister, an FT investigation has found.

Russian oligarchs, billionaires, foreign governments, international royalty, and banking giants are among those behind nearly 1,000 offshore entities who are illegally flouting the land control registry, The Ferret can reveal.

Four people were killed at a World Heritage site in Kyiv after Vladimir Putin launched a wave of missiles in a massive aerial attack.