In a dramatic claim, ex-KGB official Alnur Mussayev alleges that Donald Trump was recruited as a Russian spy in 1987 with the codename "Krasnov." Mussayev asserts that Trump’s Soviet-era ...

When former KGB officer Alnur Mussayev claimed that US President Donald Trump was recruited as an asset for Moscow in the 1980s, it set off a storm on social media. In a Facebook post on 20 ...

The electoral collapse of the British Conservative party in last year’s elections was matched by extraordinary breakdowns in discipline, a new book reveals. European Editor at Large European ...

The claim gained traction when the news website The Daily Beast published a now-deleted story (archived) titled "Former Intelligence Officer Claims KGB Recruited Trump," using only Mussayev's ...

The former head of Kazakhstan’s intelligence service, Alnur Mussayev, recently claimed in a Facebook post that Donald Trump was recruited by the KGB in 1987, when the 40-year-old real-estate ...

MOSCOW — Russia and Belarus will hold a joint military exercise in September, officials said Thursday, part of efforts by the two neighbors and allies to expand their military ties amid the ...

FILE - Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, and Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko talk during a signing ceremony in Minsk, Belarus, Dec. 6, 2024. (Gavriil Grigorov, Sputnik, Kremlin ...

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He was met by KGB head Tsertsel. Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the Libyan National Army Khalifa Belkasim Haftar arrived in Minsk on 17 February, BelTA informs. He was met at the airport by KGB ...

According to independent journalist Jacob Silverman, Coristine is the grandson of Valery Martynov, a former KGB spy. Per Silverman’s research, Martynov was an officer in the technical espionage ...

US President Donald Trump was groomed 37 years ago as a potential Soviet asset, according to Alnur Mussayev, the former head of Kazakhstan’s security services, who had been a KGB officer in Moscow at ...

OPINION: I first set foot in Russia a couple of years after the presidents of Belarus, Ukraine and Russia ... The only exceptions were the KGB’s successor agencies — Russia’s external ...