The world-famous beluga whale thought to have been trained as a Russian spy and later found dead under fishy circumstances is ...

Hvaldimir the tame beluga whale was indeed a Russian spy whale, but it escaped because it was a "hooligan." Sadly Hvaldimir ...

Speculation arose that the marine mammal could be a Russian spy. Locals named the whale Hvaldimir, a nod to the name of ...

A BBC documentary provides details about the origin of the beluga, which was found dead in early September. Two months after being found dead on the shores of Norway, the beluga whale Hvaldimir is ...

Dr Olga Shpak, who researched marine life in Russia for decades said she was "100 per cent" certain of the whale's origins.

Delighted Scandinavian townsfolk who discovered the overgrown dolphin in their harbour nearly dubbed it James Beluga, but ...

But it ends up feeling thin and unsatisfactory, especially when there is no new evidence about Hvaldimir or the Russian ...

The beluga, nicknamed “Hvaldimir” — a portmanteau of “Vladimir,” as in Putin, and the Norwegian for “whale” — was widely ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin has openly warned for years that the country could become an “enfeebled nation ” if it doesn ...

Five years ago, a friendly white beluga whale approached fisherman in the waters off Norway, and quickly cemented his status ...

Headlines announcing the arrival of a possible Russian spy dolphin soon circulated around the world as the beluga (dubbed ...

‘A whale deployed by Vladimir Putin as a Russian spy’ – it seems like a chapter of an alternative version of John le Carré’s ...