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‘The doorbell went at 5am. Six masked men were outside’: Belarus Free Theatre bring totalitarian terror to the Venice Biennale

They’ve been imprisoned, tortured and spied upon. Now dissidents from Europe’s last dictatorship are bringing the sights, sounds, smells and even tastes of brutal repression to the world’s biggest festival of art

The Guardian - UK

Chernobyl Wasn't a Nuclear Disaster—It Was a Communist Disaster

Forty years after the Chernobyl meltdown, too many people are still drawing the wrong conclusions.

Reason

Apple's Intergenerational Sci-Fi Epic Just Dropped A Crucial Clue For Its Spinoff

One under-the-radar character in 'For All Mankind' could be the key to everything. Even the spinoff show.

Inverse

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Chernobyl at 40: Secret Stasi files reveal extent of Soviet misinformation campaign over nuclear disaster

On April 26, 1986, Soviet engineers at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant were conducting a safety test. Doomed by a fatal design flaw and pushed to the limit by human negligence, reactor 4 exploded amid an attempted shutdown during a routine procedure, setting off a chain of events that ultimately…

The Conversation

‘We wasted a lot of lives’: CIA spymaster’s caution over past Iran intervention resurfaces from beyond the grave

A documentary about Peter Sichel – the ‘Jewish James Bond’, whose wine portfolio boasted Blue Nun – includes striking mea culpas about the cost and efficacy of US involvement in the Middle East

The Guardian - UK

Poison, a plane crash and falling from a window: How Putin’s critics and rivals have met mysterious ends

IN FOCUS: Alexei Navalny is latest in long line of Vladimir Putin’s critics who have died in recent years. James C. Reynolds, Gustaf Kilander and Alexander Butler report

The Independent UK

Will Ponies Get Renewed For Season 2 After That Cliffhanger Ending? What The Creators Say

Giddy up!

Cinemablend

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I Binged Emilia Clarke's Ponies, And I Have So Many Questions I Need Answered In Season 2

They really left us hanging with that finale.

Cinemablend

GOP hawks show contrast with Trump on European allies

Remarks form the latest rebuttal from mainstream GOP hawks to Trump’s distancing of America from its traditional NATO allies.

Roll Call

Aldrich Ames obituary

CIA officer who betrayed western intelligence assets and espionage operations to the Soviet Union and Russia

The Guardian - UK

Putin as a Russian James Bond? Jude Law’s Vladimir film seems to have swallowed Kremlin myths

In The Wizard of the Kremlin, Jude Law plays Russia’s president as a cool, reluctant leader, a strategist who got the job because he was young, athletic and a spy. This is a creation far removed from the man himself

The Guardian - UK

Producer Claims Rebel Wilson's Minions Used 'Vindictive Smear Campaigns', 'Ghislaine Maxwell' Slur In Row

Rebel Wilson's directorial debut The Deb spirals into a legal nightmare amid claims of 'smear campaigns' and harassment. Read the full story on the lawsuits here.

International Business Times UK

Six great reads – best of 2025: a deep-cover KGB agent, Zadie Smith on Tracy Chapman, and the boy who came back

Need something brilliant to read over the holidays? Here are six of our best pieces from 2025. Look out for part two next Saturday

The Guardian - UK

The Secret Life of Aliia Roza, Former Russian Operative Turning Trafficking Foes into Fashion Icons

From elite Russian intelligence operations to global fashion stages, Aliia Roza reveals how a former secret agent reinvented herself while exposing the dark mechanics of manipulation and trafficking.

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The Guardian - US

Chess review – messy Broadway revival wastes catchy Abba songs

A 1980s concept album, from Tim Rice and Abba members Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus, is brought back to the stage with uneven results

The Guardian - UK

Richard Gott, former Guardian journalist and historian, dies aged 87

Charismatic figure of the left is remembered as one of the most informed commentators on Latin American affairs

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50 Employees Who Had One Job And Still Managed To Mess It Up

Do you consider yourself a curious soul?

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50 Employees Who Had One Job And Still Managed To Mess It Up

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Euronews

Belarus expels Czech diplomat in tit-for-tat move after Prague makes spy ring accusations

The expulsion comes after Czech and Polish authorities expelled Belarusian diplomats earlier this month, as part of a wider crackdown on a European spy ring made up of agents from Belarus' KGB state security agency.

The Guardian - UK

‘We were being watched by the KGB’: how Scorpions made Wind of Change

‘A guy from our record company told me to take out the whistling. I said no way. When the song went through the roof, he came to me, bent over and said, “Kick my ass!”’

The Guardian - UK

Dau director Ilya Khrzhanovsky: my ‘pornographic propaganda’ recreating the USSR is more important than ever

When Khrzhanovsky’s colossal immersive project on the horrors of the Soviet Union launched in 2019, it caused uproar in east and west alike. Now, he plans to release its ‘mother film’, to expose the ‘huge danger’ the world faces today

The Guardian - UK

European operation identifies alleged Belarusian spy ring

A former deputy head of Moldovan intelligence reportedly arrested for treason for ‘transmitting state secrets’

The Independent UK

Czech Republic and allies break up Belarus spy network across Europe

The Czech Republic’s counterintelligence agency says it has broken up a spy network being built by Belarus

Euronews

Czech Republic, Romania and Hungary break up Belarus spy network in Europe

The Czech intelligence agency said Belarus managed to create the network because its diplomats are able to freely travel across European countries.

Evening Standard

The Defector: KGB agent's defection after Soho drink drive arrest changed the shape of the Cold War

The Evening Standard scooped the world in 1971 with the first and only picture of Russian defector Oleg Lyalin, who is now the subject of a compelling new book

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