Jonathan Rugman , Foreign Affairs Correspondent

One of the Salisbury poisoning suspects, who was last night identified as a Russian military doctor, is also believed to have received a hero’s medal from Vladimir Putin four years ago. The Russian Embassy said tonight that it would not comment on the latest revelations from the investigative websites Bellingcat and The Insider, which it claimed were…

The investigative website Bellingcat has alleged the second man suspected of the Salisbury poisoning is in reality Dr Alexander Mishkin, a medical doctor working for Russian military intelligence, the GRU.

Mystery surrounds the disappearance of a prominent critic of Saudi Arabia. Jamal Khashoggi, a journalist, hasn’t been seen since his visit to the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul last Tuesday.

Spies and hackers from Russian military intelligence have been accused of cyber crimes worldwide. Moscow angrily dismissed the allegations, saying they were part of the West’s “spy mania”.

He’s the world’s oldest head of state, but at 93, Mahathir Mohamad says he’s the man to clean up Malaysia after a corruption scandal engulfed the previous government.

One of the suspects in the poison attack on the former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter has been revealed as a highly-decorated, senior officer in Russia’s military intelligence unit, called Colonel Anatoliy Chepiga, according to the online investigation site Bellingcat. Their report claims that Chepiga was the man who travelled to Salisbury under the name ‘Ruslan Boshirov’.

The Russian President Vladimir Putin has said a “chain of tragic circumstances” was to blame for the shooting down of a Russian military aircraft by a Syrian missile.

Last week, Russia was denying any knowledge of the suspects in the chemical attack in Salisbury. Now Russia’s President says the men have been found and are “nothing special, just civilians”. Vladimir Putin added that he hoped they would soon tell their story in public. “It will be better for everyone,” he said.

The war games come amid heightened tension between Russia and the west and especially with Washington, with which both Moscow and Beijing have strained ties.

The UN has called for restraint ahead of this week’s talks between Russia, Iran and Turkey about a Syrian government offensive which many fear could spark a humanitarian disaster.

Two Reuters journalists have been sent to prison for seven years, apparently for getting too close to the truth. A judge found them guilty of trying to obtain secret documents, while they said they were set up by the police.

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