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The National Interest Online (blog)
September 19, 2019
Russian border patrol has detained 161 North Korean sailors for suspected poaching activity in the Sea of Japan, triggering a diplomaticÃâà...
Quartz
September 19, 2019
China has framed Hong Kong's pro-democracy protests as a foreign-backed movement that uses “thugs” to threaten the mainland's sovereigntyÃâà...
The Economist
September 19, 2019
FIRST CAME fires that turned the Siberian skies into a wall of solid smoke stretching for thousands of kilometres. Then came a drought thatÃâà...
The Nation
September 19, 2019
Indeed, where Russia belongs, where it should seek its identity, security, and future—in the East or in the West—has divided the nation'sÃâà...
CNN International
September 19, 2019
(CNN) A New York woman arrested in Russia on suspicion of ... under the criminal code of the Russian Federation and fined 15,000 rubles,Ãâà...
The National Interest Online (blog)
September 19, 2019
From Kaliningrad, Russia can threaten NATO aircraft, ships and ground ... nuclear cruise missile strike on the Russian Federation, only turningÃâà...
NPR
September 19, 2019
"Russia will eventually be free," he said. "But we may not live to see it if we let fear win." Hours later, law enforcement agents arrested ZhukovÃâà...
Newsweek
September 18, 2019
The chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff has warned that NATO military superiority over an increasingly aggressive Russia has beenÃâà...
ReliefWeb
April 28, 2018
In South Siberia (Tyva Republic and Altai Krai Region) and in the southern part of European Russia (Volgograd Region), as a result of rapid snow thaw and runoff of meltwater into riverbeds, water levels rose significantly from late March 2018 onwards. As of 16 April, there were 11,550 affected people inÃâà...
Los Angeles Times
April 28, 2018
Manafort's attorneys, Kevin Downing and Thomas Zehnle, pointed to that fact in arguing that Mueller had exceeded his authority by bringing charges unrelated to Russia or the Trump campaign. Initially, Manafort had asked Jackson to throw out all charges against him and nullify Mueller's appointment orderÃâà...
CNN
April 28, 2018
(CNN) The House Intelligence Committee on Friday released a redacted version of the Republican report on the Russia investigation that finds no evidence of collusion, along with a Democratic dissent disputing the Republican conclusions. Lawmakers in both parties said the report was overly redactedÃâà...
The Sydney Morning Herald
April 28, 2018
“There have been wake-up calls. But in Estonia I don't think we ever actually needed to be woken up. “We were wide awake throughout,” says Sven Mikser. On Friday a US Congressional committee report found that Russia for years has conducted “active measures” in Europe: supporting fringe politicalÃâà...
New Republic
April 28, 2018
How should the U.S. deal with Putin? Facing hackers and poisonings, Western analysts have focused on the motivations of Russia's inscrutable president. And it's easy to confuse Russia's foreign policy with Putin's foreign policy, given how much influence he exercises over it.
CNN
April 28, 2018
(CNN) The House Intelligence Committee on Friday released a redacted version of the Republican report on the committee's year-long Russia investigation, in which GOP members say they found no evidence of collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia and disputed the intelligence community'sÃâà...
MSNBC
April 22, 2018
Description: MSNBC Anchor Richard Lui is joined by former intelligence officers and legal analysts to debate whether the former FBI director's memos align with public statements and if it bolsters Comey's credibility. David Priess, a former CIA agent, believes that the most important takeaway from theseÃâà...
The National Interest Online
April 22, 2018
In early 2014, Russia annexed the Crimean Peninsula, part of Ukraine's sovereign territory. Since April 2014, Russian authorities have supported the actions of illegal armed groups in eastern Ukraine, resulting in the deaths of more than ten thousand people. In response to Russia's aggression, WesternÃâà...
NPR
April 22, 2018
This week in the Russia investigations: Did we learn anything from James Comey? Michael Cohen opts for discretion in the face of some new legal challenges. What Comey Says Trump Said Putin Said. President Trump, then-chief of staff Reince Priebus and then-FBI Director James Comey were sittingÃâà...
Business Insider
April 22, 2018
Prosecutors told a federal judge this week that they suspected Paul Manafort, the former chairman of President Donald Trump's campaign, of serving as a "back channel" between the campaign and Russia during the 2016 US election. The special counsel Robert Mueller's office has charged Manafort with 23 counts relatedÃâà...
ABC Online
April 22, 2018
The governments of China, Russia, Iran and North Korea "violate the human rights of those within their borders on a daily basis and are forces of instability as a result," Mr Sullivan said in a preface to the congressionally mandated report that documents human rights in nearly 200 countries and territories.
Aljazeera.com
April 21, 2018
The Democratic Party in the United States has filed a lawsuit alleging that top officials from Donald Trump's presidential campaign, Russia and WikiLeaks conspired to influence the Republican's White House bid in his favour. The civil complaint filed on Friday accused that Moscow informed Trump'sÃâà...
Foreign Affairs
April 21, 2018
This is typical in the era of Trump, when those on both sides of the aisle routinely portray Russia as a dire threat to the United States. This bipartisan enmity toward Russia has pushed even Trump, whose rhetoric on the country often vacillates between open hostility and admiration, to adopt reflexivelyÃâà...
Wired.co.uk
April 21, 2018
The attacks target routers and the protective hardware around them, with Russia-sponsored hackers accused of running "man-in-the-middle" attacks for to spy, steal intellectual property, and "potentially lay a foundation for future offensive operations", the alert reads. The FBI, Department of HomelandÃâà...
Politico
April 21, 2018
Rudy Giuliani has an explicit mission on Donald Trump's legal team: Help the president lift the Russia-shaped “cloud” over his White House–and fast. An early priority for Trump's newest personal attorney will be to resolve the question of whether the president even needs to sit for an interview with specialÃâà...
New York Times
April 21, 2018
If officials in Britain have indeed identified suspects, it is highly unlikely that Russia would agree to extradite them. A few weeks after the death of Alexander V. Litvinenko, a former officer in the Federal Security Service, or F.S.B., a British officials asked to speak to five suspects living in Russia. But theirÃâà...
NBCNews.com
April 21, 2018
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump told former FBI Director James Comey that he didn't stay in Russia overnight during his 2013 visit to the country — part of his explanation for why the salacious allegations from the Steele dossier couldn't be true, according to the Comey memos that were releasedÃâà...
CNBC
April 21, 2018
The supply-cutting deal led by OPEC has not yet completed its mission to rebalance the oil market, Russian Energy Minister Alexander Novak told CNBC Friday. The agreement was initially brought forward to boost oil prices after years of stalled levels. Oil producing countries are set to meet in June toÃâà...
Los Angeles Times
April 21, 2018
"During the 2016 presidential campaign, Russia launched an all-out assault on our democracy, and it found a willing and active partner in Donald Trump's campaign," Tom Perez, chairman of the Democratic National Committee, said in a statement. "This constituted an act of unprecedented treachery: theÃâà...
NPR
April 20, 2018
Thousands of Russian Muslim men joined the Islamic State and brought their families with them to Iraq and Syria. But now that ISIS has lost most of its territory – and with many of those Russian fighters now dead – the Russian government is desperately searching for their lost wives and children. HundredsÃâà...
The Independent
April 20, 2018
The public spat this week, between the White House and Nikki Haley, US permanent representative to the UN, has thrown America's sanctions policy into confusion. But this should not cloud a more significant moment. Earlier this month America imposed its most far-reaching sanctions yet on Russia.
CNBC
April 20, 2018
Russia stands ready to retaliate against the latest round of U.S. sanctions, the country's Finance Minister Anton Siluanov told CNBC. The U.S. slapped sanctions on several Russian oligarchs, businesses and agencies thought to have ties to Russian President Vladimir Putin earlier this month. It prompted aÃâà...
CNN
April 20, 2018
(CNN) In his memos documenting conversations with President Donald Trump, former FBI Director James Comey recounts Trump's "serious reservations" about then-national security adviser Michael Flynn as well as the President's concerns about media leaks and Trump's recollection of Russian PresidentÃâà...
The Guardian
April 20, 2018
Russia used trolls and bots to unleash disinformation on to social media in the wake of the Salisbury poisoning, according to fresh Whitehall analysis. Government sources said experts had uncovered an increase of up to 4,000% in the spread of propaganda from Russia-based accounts since the attack,–Ãâà...
The Sun
April 16, 2018
Western nations have criticised Russia for defending President Bashar Assad and denying a chemical attack by his forces took place. But a Syrian government official said it is "fully ready" to cooperate with the OCPW that's in Syria to investigate the alleged chemical attack that triggered US-led airstrikes.
BBC News
April 16, 2018
State-sponsored Russian hackers are actively seeking to hijack essential internet hardware, US and UK intelligence agencies say. The UK's National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), the FBI and the US Department of Homeland Security issued a joint alert warning of a global campaign. The alert detailsÃâà...
CBC.ca
April 16, 2018
The United States and Britain on Monday alleged that Russian government-backed hackers had infected computer routers around the world in a cyber espionage campaign that targeted government agencies, businesses and critical infrastructure operators. U.S. and British officials told reporters in aÃâà...
Aljazeera.com
April 16, 2018
Amid a fierce war of words between Russia and the US and its allies, Moscow has said that a team of chemical experts from the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) will inspect the site of a suspected poison gas attack in Syria on Wednesday. The announcement came as RussiaÃâà...
New York Times
April 16, 2018
LONDON — The United States and Britain on Monday issued a first-of-its-kind joint warning about Russian cyberattacks against government and private organizations as well as individual homes and offices in both countries, a milestone in the escalating use of cyberweaponry between major powers.
Politico
April 16, 2018
President Donald Trump on Monday accused Russia and China of devaluing their nation's currencies, potentially ratcheting up trade tensions while appearing to take a swipe at his own Federal Reserve. "Russia and China are playing the Currency Devaluation game as the U.S. keeps raising interest rates.
CNBC
April 16, 2018
Russia's stock market dipped on Monday morning, dragged lower by the prospect of fresh U.S. sanctions and lower oil prices. The Moex index edged down around 0.3 percent during lunchtime deals in Moscow, extending losses of more than 4 percent over the last month. Meanwhile, the U.S.Ãâà...
CNBC
April 16, 2018
The world is watching Russia for its reaction to Western missile strikes on its ally Syria, but analysts predict Moscow's retaliation will be limited despite rapidly escalating tensions. The U.S. is expected to announce Monday more sanctions on Russia because of its support for Syrian President Bashar Assad.
CNBC
April 16, 2018
Russia must take responsibility for the recent chemical weapons attack in Syria, the U.S. ambassador to NATO told CNBC Monday, calling on the country to stop what she called "mad behavior." On Saturday, the U.S., France and the U.K. conducted 105 airstrikes on government targets in Syria following aÃâà...
NPR
April 16, 2018
The U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations is expected to announce a new round of economic sanctions against Russia for its backing of Syrian President Bashar al Assad's alleged use of chemical weapons. The sanctions follow U.S.-led airstrikes against Syria's chemical weapons capability andÃâà...
Spectator.co.uk (blog)
April 14, 2018
We will also be joined by Mark Galeotti, author of The Vory, a newly published study of the history of Russian organised crime, who is one of the best informed Western commentators on Russia's security services and criminals. The chilling message of The Vory is that these are often one and the same thing,Ãâà...
The Hill
April 14, 2018
The United States and its allies traded barbs with Russia at the United Nations Security Council on Saturday, hours after leaders in Washington, London and Paris ordered military strikes on strategic parts of the Syrian chemical weapons program. The comments at the Security Council in New York were theÃâà...
NPR
April 14, 2018
This week in the Russia investigations: How different is the congressional situation now, really? How much might Moscow have depended on straw donors in the United States? Mexico City Metropolitan Cathedral looks lovely in the picture postcards, but the ancient church is sinking. After anotherÃâà...
CNBC
April 14, 2018
Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks attends the forum on working youth while visiting the Uralvagonzavod, a machine plant on March 6, 2018 in Nizhny Tagil, Sverdlovsk oblast, Russia. Vladimir Putin is having a campaign trip to Nizhny Tagil prior to the 2018 Presidential Elections on March 18.
CNBC
April 14, 2018
Russia responded angrily to a U.S.-led strike against Syria on Friday, warning of unspecified "consequences" that stoked fears the conflict could escalate. President Donald Trump ordered targeted military action in the country, following an alleged chemical weapons attack that reportedly left dozens ofÃâà...
Vox
April 14, 2018
After failing to talk the US out of bombing targets in Syria, Russia responded to Friday's strikes by saying they “threatened” Russia and warning of “consequences.” “Our warnings have been left unheard,” Russia's ambassador to the US, Anatoly Antonov, said in a tweet on Saturday morning. “We are beingÃâà...
CNBC
April 13, 2018
Russia's U.N. Ambassador Vassily Nebenzia urged the United States and its allies on Thursday to refrain from military action against Syria over a suspected chemical weapons attack and said he "cannot exclude" war between Washington and Moscow. Speaking after a closed-door U.N. Security CouncilÃâà...
CNBC
April 13, 2018
Russia's lower house of parliament is to consider draft legislation that would give the Kremlin powers to ban or restrict a list of U.S. imports, reacting to new U.S. sanctions on a group of Russian tycoons and officials. Senior lawmakers in the State Duma, which is dominated by Kremlin loyalists, said they hadÃâà...
