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...He had also been affiliated with other Russian paramilitary forces in eastern Ukraine’s Luhansk region during President Vladimir Putin’s covert invasion that the Kremlin disguised as a “separatist uprising...
...Sir Richard Moore, the head of MI6, has said similar. “There are many Russians today who are silently appalled,” he said last year. “Our door is always open.”...
...Exclusive: Russia’s covert partnership with Iran includes co-operation on a new factory for reconnaissance drones in the Russian province of Tatarstan to supply its war effort in Ukraine....
...There are echoes of Richard Osman’s Thursday Murder Club series, but Maggie and her team are pin-sharp....
...The letter acknowledged that tech companies have taken unprecedented actions, with the removal of state media marking a new frontier for the social media platforms, which have tended to focus on removing covert...
...Richard Moore, head of the UK’s Secret Intelligence Service, commented this week that the Wagner chief had “started off as a traitor at breakfast, he’d been pardoned by supper and two days later he’d been...
...Jimmy Carter, the Democratic candidate, branded Kissinger as an amoral operator whose methods were covert and secretive....
...At the more innocuous end of the spectrum, the MSS used cultural front groups to bring foreign musicians to China, including French pianist Richard Clayderman....
...The balloon may be a highly visible manifestation of China’s espionage efforts, but its more covert operations have been evolving for years....
...Smart reads Smooth operators Private credit giants are increasingly clinching covert deals under the radar to get more attractive terms on financing leveraged buyouts, Bloomberg reports....
...Higher share prices would help reduce tensions between tech founders and activists, writes the FT’s Richard Waters....
...The state payment, overseen by Lagarde, was later criticised as excessive amid accusations that it was a covert reward for Tapie’s support of former president Nicolas Sarkozy during his election campaign...
...A covert parachutist floats down while trees shuffle about, Birnam Wood-style. Four interlocking trolleys of varying heights on castors become steps, bookshelves and beds....
...Leontiev admired western entrepreneurs such as Warren Buffett and Richard Branson....
...Russia’s first failures occurred within the opening 24 hours of the war, when pre-positioned covert spetsnaz troops, whose job it was to cripple the Ukrainian political leadership, were stopped....
...(New York Times reporter Edmund Lee’s Substack) Space race Rocket launching moguls Richard Branson and Jeff Bezos aren’t the only ones preparing for lift-off....
...According to people familiar with the investigation, the SFO has been talking to whistleblowers for about a year and opened a covert investigation a few months ago....
...tipping points stand out this year — the Australian call for an independent inquiry into the Covid-19 outbreak, and police raids on Chinese-Australians and Chinese media in Australia over allegations of covert...
...Before his death in 1994, Richard Nixon reflected that his much-acclaimed diplomatic masterstroke — the opening of US relations with China — might have been a mistake....
...Richard McGregor, an analyst at the Lowy Institute, said: “Relations are bad and getting worse....
...A lawyer for Meng Wanzhou, the executive from Chinese telecoms group Huawei who is fighting extradition to the US, has told a Vancouver court that Canadian law enforcement officials engaged in a “covert...
...As Henry Kissinger, Richard Nixon’s chief foreign policy adviser, once noted, even the paranoid can have real enemies....
...Mr le Carré (real name David Cornwell) cited Rudyard Kipling’s character Kim and his covert activities during the “Great Game” tussle between Britain and Russia in Asia....
...Under President Nicolas Sarkozy, the state agreed to settle with Mr Tapie through arbitration, but the resulting €403m payment was criticised as a covert reward for Mr Tapie’s support of Mr Sarkozy during...
...Both Mr Richard and Mr Tapie have declared their innocence....
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