Russian authorities are in possession of a skull fragment that they persistently claim to have belonged to nazi Germany’s dictator Adolf Hitler. And despite the fact that scientists say the skull is really that of a woman, the Russians keenly insist that the scientists are wrong and that the skull really belonged to the feared mass murderer. Why on Earth is it so important then for Russians to own this “Hitler’s skull”?

Russia has launched a withering attack on Britain’s foreign policy on the eve of the first visit to Moscow by a British Foreign Secretary in more than five years, the Daily Telegraph reports.
Russian ambassador to London, Yuri Fedotov, hit out as Foreign Secretary David Miliband was due to arrive in the country on Sunday for what is expected to be a tense trip.
Fedotov criticised Britain for adopting “anti-Russian measures” and he said that there was …

The first official history of MI5, published this morning, reveals the extent to which the security service suspected leftwingers during the Cold War and believed that three Labour MPs were Soviet bloc agents, the Guardian reports.
The MPs named in the history, written by the historian Christopher Andrew, are John Stonehouse, who became postmaster general in Harold Wilson’s government, Bernard Floud and Will Owen. The three were “outed” by a Czech defector, but there is no …

A new book claims that Nobel Prize-winning American novelist Ernest Hemingway agreed to serve as a spy for the Soviet intelligence agency KGB in the 1940s.
“Spies: The Rise and Fall of the KGB in America” was co-authored by John Earl Haynes, Harvey Klehr and Alexander Vassiliev. It is based on notes that Vassiliev, a former KGB officer, made when he was given access in the 1990s to Stalin-era intelligence archives in Moscow, Newsmax reports.
Hemingway’s KGB …

The billionaire and former KGB agent Alexander Lebedev is to buy London’s Evening Standard tomorrow, in a dramatic move that would see him become the first Russian oligarch to own a major British newspaper, MediaGuardian.co.uk can reveal.
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Under the terms of the deal Lebedev will purchase 76% of the newspaper, with the Associated Newspapers group retaining 24%.
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The purchase will be an astonishing moment in British press history – the first time a former member of a …

The communist party that is in power in my former home town Tallinn decided to name a new square in front of a new Orthodox church “Alexius II Square”.
I just don’t understand that. What kind of people give the name of a KGB agent to any place in a country that this same KGB and its “owner” the Soviet Union oppressed and killed people of for more than 50 years? What kind of people give …

In Friday morning, one of the most well-known figures of Russia, patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Churh, Alexius (Alexiy) II died. He was the head of the church for more than 18 years and probably one of the most loved people in whole Russia, considering the importance of the church and the patriarch himself in the country.
It’s said that it’s not nice to speak ill of the dead and the media seems mostly abide to …