Alexander Temerko, a friend of Boris Johnson with connections to the highest level of the Kremlin, has donated over £1m to the Conservative Party, writes

Far from the madding crowd, deep in the caverns of the birthplace of the once great bastion of altruistic volunteerism that was the GAA, a room full of megalomaniacs congregated.

Sergei Skripal, a former Russian spy who is critically ill in the UK after exposure to an unknown substance, was one of four prisoners who were pardoned and released from custody in 2010 as part of a spy swap.

British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson has vowed that Britain will respond "robustly" if evidence of state responsibility emerges after a Russian double agent was left fighting for his life following suspected exposure to an unknown substance.

A man has been arrested on suspicion of setting off an explosion at a supermarket in St Petersburg earlier this week, Russia’s main domestic security agency said.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has called his US counterpart Donald Trump to thank him for a CIA tip-off that helped thwart a series of bombings in St Petersburg.

It looks like the end of the line for the man who helped establish the Russian president’s regime almost two decades ago, writes Nina L. Khrushcheva.            

A series of terror attacks have been foiled in Russia after members of an Islamic State sleeper cell were detained, according to intelligence officials in Moscow.

Russia's intelligence agency said it has foiled a terror plot led by militants fighting for the Islamic State group in Syria.

Four alleged members of Islamic State who were preparing attacks in Moscow have been arrested, Russian security agents said.

More British lenders plan to rein in the supply of credit to consumers in the next three months than at any time since the financial crisis, according to a Bank of England survey that may add to concerns about the UK economic outlook ahead of Brexit.

Charges are set to be announced against four defendants, including two Russian security services officers, over a massive data breach at internet giant Yahoo.

A search for bodies is taking place after a Russian military plane carrying 92 people crashed in the Black Sea.

Foreign spies are being accused of plotting a series of cyber attacks aimed at destabilising Russia's financial system.

The Garda Commissioner’s use of her private email account has highlighted the issue of cyber security. Acclaimed author and investigative journalist Luke Harding tells Joyce Fegan why he certainly does not consider email to be private messaging.

Whether it’s by backing French ultra-nationalists, the Brexit campaign, or Catalan separatists, the Kremlin believes it benefits every time discord is sown in the West, argues Owen Matthews

With parliamentary elections looming in less than a month, Putin is backed by a bunch of yes men when he needs experts in politics, writes William E Pomeranz

Russia made it to Rio by the skin of its teeth and it may see Putin suspend his bid for military glory, writes Nina L Khrushcheva

RUSSIAN president Vladimir Putin is not a competitor at the Olympics but he might as well be, considering his undoubted role in the biggest doping scandal in history.

Pictures and plans of Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel’s residence and offices were found on a computer discovered after a raid on a flat used by the men suspected of carrying out last week’s deadly bombings in Brussels, Belgian media reported.

Confidence among the UK’s small businesses has plummeted, a survey showed yesterday, with firms in the North and Scottish businesses the least confident in the face of a global economic slowdown and public sector austerity.

Putin implicated in assassination of Alexander Litvinenko in London

The inquiry into Alexander Litvinenko’s death found there were “powerful motives” for organisations and individuals within the Russian state to take action against him.

Russia has sharply criticised the conclusions of a UK inquiry into the 2006 poisoning death of former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko.

A home-made explosive device brought down a Russian passenger plane over Egypt last month, the head of Russia’s FSB security service has said.

Banking behemoths, led by HSBC Holdings and JPMorgan Chase & Co, now know the cost they will have to shoulder so the global financial system does not have another Lehman moment.

Russia faces being banned from the Rio 2016 Olympics after an investigation revealed “state-sponsored” doping on a wide scale in one of sport’s biggest ever scandals.

British and US spies intercepted “chatter” from suspected militants and at least one other government suggesting that a bomb, possibly hidden in luggage in the hold, downed a Russian airliner on Saturday, killing all 224 people on board, Western intelligence sources said.

Global regulators have reached a draft agreement on a rule on stopping banks from being ‘too big to fail’ by requiring them to hold enough equity capital and bonds to avoid taxpayers being called on in a crisis.

Divided global bank regulators are preparing for a showdown on rules intended to make sure taxpayers will not be on the hook when one of the world’s biggest lenders fails.

One of the more unusual traits shared by George Bush and Bertie Ahern was their tendency for malapropisms.

The widow of poisoned spy Alexander Litvinenko has told the inquiry into his death that he believed Vladimir Putin was involved in “criminal conduct”.

A video purporting to show a young boy executing two men accused of working for Russian intelligence services has been released by the Islamic State jihadist group.

Russia’s intelligence agency sought to recruit former NSA contractor Edward Snowden but he declined the offer, a close ally has told film-makers.

Small businesses have called for an end to "downright unfair" practices after a major manufacturer renewed a call for a payment if suppliers want to remain on its books.

The European Union’s 7,000 banks must by 2020 hold a new buffer of bonds that can be written down to avoid taxpayer bailouts in a crisis, the bloc’s banking watchdog said yesterday.

Global regulators have proposed new rules to ensure that bank creditors rather than taxpayers pick up the bill when a big lender collapses.

Bank of England governor, Mark Carney said the judgment on when to increase the benchmark rate from a record low has become "more balanced" in recent months.

Global regulators face a backlash from some of the world’s largest asset managers over plans that could single them out for tougher regulation.

A powerful global financial regulator is to scrutinise benchmarks that are used in currency trading, a first sign that the market may be kept on a tighter leash after manipulation claims.

Russia has installed an all- encompassing surveillance system at the site of next year’s Winter Olympic Games in Sochi that will allow security services to listen in on athletes and visitors, security analysts claimed.

The US has largely cracked the problem of protecting taxpayers from the danger of having to bail out banks that are “too big to fail” while Europe lags behind, Bank of England deputy governor Paul Tucker has said.

The United States has made a formal promise to Russia not to torture or execute Edward Snowden if he is sent home to face charges of illegally disclosing government secrets, and the Kremlin said Russian and US security agencies are in talks over his fate.