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Belarus autocrat Alexander Lukashenko, in power since 1994, won a seventh consecutive term in office Sunday in an election ...

Belarusians began voting Sunday, with President Alexander Lukashenko expected to cruise to victory unchallenged for a seventh ...

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Film star Dirk Bogarde was warned by MI5 that he could be the target of a gay “entrapment” attempt by the KGB, according to newly-declassified intelligence files. Documents released to the National ...

Notorious double agent Anthony Blunt feared that his KGB handler would turn violent when he refused to join his fellow spies Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean and flee to Russia, according to newly ...

Investigation(3/5). The archives of KGB defector Vasili Mitrokhin challenge the notion that French intelligence services were never infiltrated during the Cold War: Throughout the 1950s ...

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