A US congressman has urged the Biden administration to ban six British lawyers from entering the US amid accusations that the lawyers have “enabled” “Putin’s” oligarchs by engaging in “abusive” lawsuits against journalists as part of an alleged effort to silence them... “Despite our close ties with the United Kingdom, the nature of its libel laws and the vast amount of blood money in its financial system make it an ideal place for oligarchs to abuse the law to harass and inti

The UK government has issued a further 14 sanctions against Russian propagandists, state media outlets and military figures - including a man dubbed "the butcher of Mariupol"... on the list are Russian propagandist Sergey Brilev and Kremlin funded TV-Novosti, which owns the news channel Russia Today.Having previously lived in the UK, Mr Brilev - a famous TV anchor on Russian state-owned media Rossiya - will no longer be able to access any of his UK assets or continue business