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Moscow attackers were killing machines while ‘high on “Chemical Courage" drug"'
The drug called Captagon - which is a favourite of the terror group ISIS is known as chemical courage- disables fear, allowing its fighters to kill without any unease
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Inside Vladimir Putin's 'torture prison' where inmates are made to suffer
Vladimir Putin's Lefortovo Prison on the outskirts of Moscow is where the Russian President's forces keep terrorist suspects, so-called spies and high-profile ex-officials
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Mystery fire at £10m home owned by wife of Putin's foe day after renovation ends
A fire broke out at a mansion under construction in Surrey on September 23. Eight crews from Surrey Fire and Rescue Service rushed to the scene, but the property was destroyed
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Secret KGB academy trained up young men and women to seduce Brit diplomats
The KGB's top-secret facility in Kazan, east of Moscow, targeted young men and women from impoverished parts of Russia and trained them in Marxism, spycraft and seduction
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Famous UK cemetery heating graves to protect from extreme weather
Highgate Cemetery in North London is the final resting place for dozens of famous people such as George Michael but also Karl Marx and poisoned Russian defector Alexander Litvinenko - the graves become damaged during extreme cold
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Woman who interrupted TV show to slam Putin's war shares daring escape
Ukraine-born Marina Ovsyannikova, 44, switched cars seven times and navigated her route to freedom using the stars during her escape from Russia after she interrupted a live TV broadcast to call out Vladimir Putin
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Putin 'pushes Russia to brink of civil war' with rebels voting for revolution
Rebels opposing Vladimir Putin's regime in Russia have accused the Kremlin leader of dragging his country to the edge of civil war as they vote for a Revolution Act aimed at tearing him down
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High-ranking Russian officials escape Putin's grasp to defect to the West
Vladimir Osechkin knows the risks of defying Vladimir Putin and the Russian state after would-be assassins invaded his home and tried to kill his family before he escaped to France in 2015
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Putin's enemy fears for his life after receiving bullet and death threat in post
Former FSB spy Boris Karpichkov, who received a sinister death threat, believes neither the police nor MI5 can protect him, claiming they have done little to protect him when similar threats arrived
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Nuclear airport scare could be Litvinenko-style attack, claims former general
Met Counter Terrorism Command officers raced to Heathrow Airport Terminal 4 on December 29 after a package set off alarms over "contaminated' material- which turned out to be uranium