The former head of Kazakhstan’s intelligence service, Alnur Mussayev, recently claimed in a Facebook post that Donald Trump ...

Luke Harding, journalist and author of "Collusion: Secret Meetings, Dirty Money, and How Russia Helped Donald Trump Win," explains how Vladimir Putin's background as a KGB agent has influenced his ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Russian President Vladimir Putin has come a long way from the days when he was serving as an officer in the KGB. Here's a look at how he became one of the most ...

But with a former KGB director taking over in the Kremlin, some say its successor has become just as potent a force. President Vladimir Putin has given unprecedented positions of power to former ...

Donald Trump’s announcement that he has opened bilateral negotiations with Vladimir Putin over the future ... while Putin – the former head of the KGB – works out what to do with Ukraine ...

In this extract from the BBC Select documentary 'A Russian Spy Story', we look into Vladimir Putin's childhood and teenage years. From a 'schoolyard thug', to joining the KGB and meeting his wife ...

His ambition was rewarded with admission to the Soviet intelligence services as a KGB official. In Dresden, East Germany he witnessed the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. With the collapse of the ...