Although Russia is one of the world’s largest energy exporters, accounting for over 10% of the global oil supply, most of that trade is settled in dollars, euros, or, increasingly, China’s renminbi.

Gift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. DroneShield chief executive Oleg Vornik is privately telling investors that he was justified in selling his entire $50 million stake ...

DroneShield chief executive Oleg Vornik hasn’t been afraid of the spotlight. He’s a frequent speaker on the start-up events circuit, and there have been glowing profiles on how he fled Russia and ...

On a late summer evening in 1971, a KGB officer walked into a north London police station with a strange request. He wanted to be expelled from Britain to divorce his wife. Within weeks, his decision ...

For more than a decade, as Cold War tensions threatened to escalate into all-out war, senior KGB officer Oleg Gordievsky passed intelligence to the British spy agency MI6, sharing secrets that helped ...

The first thing Oleg Gordievsky did, having decided in July 1985 to defect, was to barricade the door of his Moscow flat. When the KGB men came for him, that would slow them down. He had once been a ...

Oleg Gordievsky, a Soviet KGB officer who helped change the course of the Cold War by covertly passing secrets to the UK, has died at home in England. Gordievsky died on March 4 in England, where he ...

Oleg Gordievsky, a Soviet KGB officer who helped change the course of the Cold War by covertly passing secrets to Britain, has died. He was 86. Gordievsky died March 4 in England, where he had lived ...

Oleg Gordievsky, a high-ranking KGB officer who spied for the West during the height of the Cold War, has died at the age of 86. Gordievsky died on March 4 in England, where he had lived since ...

Oleg Gordievsky was smuggled out of the Soviet Union in the boot of a car FORMER KGB double agent Oleg Gordievsky, who defected from Russia to Britain, has died aged 86. Gordievsky, who is believed to ...

Oleg Gordievsky has died at his home in Surrey aged 86, the BBC understands Oleg Gordievsky, the long-standing KGB double agent who defected to Britain, has died aged 86. Gordievsky was said to be ...