News Story In 1867 a British spy in Russia, with a nickname Oswald Smith, blackmailing and corrupting the Russian elite, gained full control of all newspapers in the state. He then released fabricated story about the Turkish invasion on Russia in all major newspapers. Tsar Leopold III believed in these reports and ordered to resist the Turks. The British Empire took advantage of this situation regaining its spheres of influence in East Asia. Oswald Smith few days after this sucess miserably died after an huge book by Alexander Pushkin fell on his head in london library.