Russian Interference

Nafeez Ahmed reports on contingency planners for financial institutions who believe a combination of energy and food shocks will cause major social disruption

Boris Johnson has failed to release advice he received from UK security services about his friend Evgeny Lebedev, despite MPs voting for its release, reports Adam Bienkov

Fourteen years ago, Andrew Levi briefed the Labour Foreign Secretary on the dangers of Putin’s Kremlin. Now the terrifying predictions of that report have been vindicated, it is vital to reckon with our failures

The claim that the Prime Minister has shown Churchillian solidarity with Ukraine does not stand up to scrutiny, says Sam Bright

The Byline Times Team investigates claims that a Russian diplomat with links to the Conservative Party assisted a British pro-Putin propagandist

TJ Cole explores how the Russo-British Chamber of Commerce has attempted to shape UK politics and trade for more than a century

Playboys and plutocrats are now the natural constituency of Boris Johnson’s party, argues Sam Bright

Sam Bright and Sascha Lavin explore how the Government is inviting questionable regimes into Britain’s former industrial heartlands

Using an example of local vigilante violence in Ukraine and its exploitation by Putin’s propaganda machine, Max Colbert explores Russian disinformation techniques

Exclusive: Labour tells Byline Times that Johnson will be in contempt of Parliament if he hides security service advice he received about the son of a former KGB agent, reports Adam Bienkov

The Prime Minister’s spokesman said release of security advice about Lebedev may not be ‘in the public interest’, reports Adam Bienkov

Brad Blitz and Alexandra Lewis explain how Russia’s mass deportation of Ukrainians is not an accident, but central to the ‘Ru.Lag’ – the Kremlin’s new form of political and economic control

Have Kremlin-backed companies used the international peace system to launder their reputations? Dimitris Dimitriadis explores

The Chancellor is debasing public standards and ethics in exactly the same way as his boss, argues Rachel Morris

Sam Bright explores the links between a firm owned by Sunak’s wife and a Russian billionaire