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Vladimir Putin has claimed he survived an assassination attempt after spotting a red dot on a wall while serving his kids dinner. Vladimir Osechkin, 41, is the exiled founder of anti-torture group gulagu.net, who campaign against abuses in Russian prisons.

Leonid Volkov, the former chief of staff of late Russian opposition activist Alexei Navalny, was attacked on Tuesday outside his house in Vilnius, Lithuania.

The fate of Alexei Navalny, the jailed Russian opposition leader whose story was told in the Oscar-winning documentary Navalny, has become even more grim.

Investigative journalist Christo Grozev, a key figure in the story of acclaimed documentary Navalny, says he and his family have been banned from attending the BAFTA ceremony on Sunday because he poses “a public security risk”.

Christo Grozev, the investigative journalist featured in the Navalny documentary, has been put on Russia’s “wanted” list.

Navalny has been marketed as an international thriller focusing on the conspiracy to assassinate Russian peace activist Alexander Navalny, but director Daniel Roher says that it was just as important to show him as a human being as it was an icon. 

Vladimir Putin after it was revealed some chiefs reckon the war in Ukraine is lost. A possible coup against the Russian despot is a possibility, a Russian analyst has claimed, while the chances of a nuclear strike are receding after Putin loses trust of top security officials.Leading security officials believe Putin will not be in power in three months time, Moscow expert and investigative journalist Christo Grozev has claimed.Speaking to Radio Liberty, Grozev said: "I think that it is the informed elite within the security forces who understand that the war is lost." Russian security officials understand Putin would need mass mobilisation to win the war, but that it would cause a "social explosion" in Russia, with others saying that "enough is enough" and it is "better not to waste" the lives of soldiers and officers.

Vladimir Putin launching a nuclear war is "very real" and his “psychiatric health is bad indeed”, an oligarch close to the Russian tyrant has warned. A prominent billionaire has alerted associates about his health and said "stories about him going bonkers are not a joke”.

Putin's top commanders will ignore his order to launch nuclear missiles because they think he is gravely ill, a senior investigative journalist has claimed. Christo Grozev, who is linked to the Bellingcat open-source research group, said many military and security officials believe the tyrant is dying or severely ill.

Addie Morfoot ContributorDaniel Roher is on a mission with “Navalny,” and it’s one he considers life or death.The documentary filmmaker, who last directed “Once Were Brothers: Robbie Robertson and the Band,” believes that the more people see “Navalny” worldwide, the greater the spotlight will be on the imprisoned Russian dissident it is named for, and the more problematic it will be for Vladimir Putin’s administration to kill him. Alexei Navalny, a one-time presidential candidate in Russia, was poisoned with nerve gas in 2020, and although Putin and his government denied it, the poisoning was later linked to the Kremlin.

Roman Abramovich was not poisoned but hurt when a tear gas canister exploded beside him as he left peace talks, reports in Turkey have claimed.The Chelsea owner was flown to the Turkish capital Ankara to be treated in secret at a public hospital after the incident on March 3 in the Ukrainian capital Kyiv, the reports said. It was claimed earlier this week Abramovich and two Ukrainian delegates had lost their sight for several hours after the incident in the suspected poisoning attack, initially blamed on an infected chocolate bar.Investigative journalist Christo Grozev subsequently linked it to a WW1 chemical agent and said a team of experts had agreed Chloropicrin or a low dosage of Novichok had been used in the "plot."Russia has rubbished the reports, first carried by the Wall Street Journal, and described them as part of an “information war” and Ukraine negotiator Mykhailo Podolyak played them down on Wednesday as speculative “conspiracy theories".News website Haberturk and TV channel CNNTurk on Thursday said Abramovich was injured when the tear gas canister exploded as he left a meeting with three other people in Kyiv on March 3.

Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich was poisoned either by a chemical weapon used in World War 1 or by a low dosage of Novichok - the nerve agent used in the 2018 Salisbury poisonings - according to experts.Reports emerged earlier this week that the billionaire, who has been aiding peace negotiations between Russia and Ukraine, was left with skin peeling from his hands and face, a piercing pain in his eyes, and was temporarily blinded following a meeting in Kyiv earlier this month.Investigative journalist Christo Grozev, who led research into the incident, revealed in a recent interview that he believed Chloropicrin - a chemical warfare agent used in WW1 - was a likely cause."All the experts studied their photographs and carried out personal examinations.

Vladimir Putin and his high command are based some or all the time in top-secret nuclear bunkers as the bloody war unfolds in Ukraine. Since Putin launched his ruthless invasion of Ukraine last month (February 24), his whereabouts have been unknown.

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine – originally forecast to be over in less than a week – limps into its third week, furious Kremlin boss Vladimir Putin is looking for someone to blame.Reports are emerging that General Roman Gavrilov, the deputy chief of Russia's Rosgvardia unit which was the spearhead of the first push into Ukrainian territory, has been arrested by the feared Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation – The FSB.The reason for Gavrilov’s arrest is not immediately clear. One source quoted by Bellincat’s Christo Grozev say the charge was "wasteful squandering of fuel” while a more serious charge of "leaks of military information that led to loss of life” has also been rumoured.

The Kremlin is believed to have been thrown into anarchy following a number of blows to Vladimir Putin's regime, as the planned invasion of Ukraine slows.

Ukraine’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Dmytro Kuleba accused Russian troops of “war crimes." At least 100,000 Ukrainians have fled the country, with up to five million more expected to also head towards bordering eastern European countries.But men from 18-60 were hastily forced to conscript into the Ukranian Army, some being yanked off fleeing buses.US visitor Manny Marotta, 25, who walked more than 43 miles to the Polish border, said: “There were essentially conscription units pulling every man between the age of 18 and 60 from his family.“Sons were taken from their mothers as they tried to make it to safety. It was harrowing to see.” Olga Malchevska was on BBC World News when images of ­blitzed flats were shown on screen.

Owen Gleiberman Chief Film CriticThere’s an extraordinary scene in the middle of “Navalny,” a must-watch documentary that tells the inspiring, scary, and profoundly important story of Alexei Navalny, the vitally popular Russian opposition leader who, as a presidential candidate, became such a threat to Vladimir Putin that the Kremlin tried to poison him. Most of the documentary, which was unveiled as a last-minute “surprise” entry in the U.S.