A coded letter in which Napoleon Bonaparte vows to blow up the Kremlin goes under the hammer near Paris in December, 200 years after the French invasion of Russia. “I will blow up the Kremlin on the 22nd at three am,” reads the missive written in numbers and signed “Nap”,…
Vladimir Putin was sent to Russia by God to help it deal with its troubles in the early post-Soviet era, the Kremlin’s top political adviser was quoted as saying on Friday. “To be honest, I think of Putin as a person who was sent to Russia by fate and the…