Russia

Jeremy Corbyn has been given a wake-up call by Britain’s spy chiefs about the threat from Islamist terrorists and hostile states such as Russia. The Mail on Sunday has learned that senior Opposition figures, including Mr Corbyn and his Shadow Home Secretary Diane Abbott, met intelligence agencies and the Home Office for a series of ‘eye-openers’ … Read more

Ruslan Boshirov, left, and Alexander Petrov, right, claim they are the victims of a smear and suggested Britain was plotting to kill them The men accused over the Salisbury attack spoke out for the first time in an interview with RT, the transcript of which is below:  RT’s editor-in-chief Margarita Simonyan: You called my cell … Read more

Female warrior was buried with legs wide apart in the ‘riding position’ as if on a horse journeying into the afterlife 2,400 years ago Site was discovered at Devitsa V ancient necropolis in Russia’s Voronezh region The horsewoman, aged between 20 and 35, had her tendons cut after death Three other Amazon warriors who died … Read more

Cool customer! Woman calmly steps out of the way as reversing car hurtles along snow-covered pavement and crashes into a pole Car snakes across a snowy road in sub-zero temperatures in Yakutsk, Russia It then smacks into a wall before changing its route and driving on the pavement A woman then steps out of the … Read more

Trapeze artist fears she may never walk again as shocking footage shows the moment she plunged 25ft as safety wire snapped during contest in Latvia Evgenia Asonova was competing in the International Air Athletics Championship Safety gear snapped and she fell 25ft leaving her ‘vertebra smashed to pieces’ Evgenia must now ‘must fight for the … Read more