MOSCOW–The Trump administration on Friday imposed major sanctions against 24 Russians, striking at allies of President Vladimir Putin over Moscow’s “malign activity.” The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control released a statement which outlined these activities, “including continuing to occupy Crimea and instigate violence in eastern Ukraine, supplying the Assad regime […]

LONDON–Former Russian spy Sergei Skripal is no longer in a critical condition and his health is improving rapidly, more than a month after he was poisoned with a nerve agent in England, the hospital treating him said on Friday. Skripal, 66, who as a colonel in Russian military intelligence betrayed dozens of agents to Britain’s […]

UNITED NATIONS–Russia told Britain at the United Nations Security Council on Thursday that “you’re playing with fire and you’ll be sorry” over its accusations that Moscow was to blame for poisoning a former Russian spy and his daughter. It was the second showdown between Russia and Britain at the world body since the March 4 […]

LONDON/MOSCOW—Yulia Skripal on Thursday made her first public comments since being poisoned in Britain last month with her father, a former Russian double-agent, saying she was getting stronger by the day but shedding no new light on the incident. The British Metropolitan police released a statement on Yulia’s behalf: “I woke up over a week ago […]

The leaders of the Baltic nations Latvia, Estonia, and Lithuania visited President Donald Trump on April 3 to seek more military assistance from the United States against Russian expansionism. President Raimonds Vejonis of Latvia, President Kersti Kaljulaid of Estonia, and President Dalia Grybauskaite of Lithuania met with Trump at the White House to discuss security […]

ANKARA–Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday he hoped a planned meeting of the global chemical weapons watchdog would help to defuse a major diplomatic row triggered by the poisoning of a former Russian double agent in England. Britain has blamed Russia for the poisoning of Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia with a military-grade […]

MOSCOW–The governor of Russia’s Kemerovo region resigned on Sunday over a mall fire that killed more than 60 after a litany of violations in safety procedures left shoppers and children trapped inside the building. Aman Tuleyev, 73, said in a video posted on the regional administration’s website that stepping down was the only course of […]

A total of twenty-one people have been treated after a former Russian spy and his daughter were poisoned with a nerve agent in the UK, Sky News reports. On Sunday, March 4, Sergei Skripal, 66, and his daughter Yulia, 33, were found unconscious slumped on a bench, vomiting and fitting in Salisbury, England after reportedly […]

WASHINGTON–The United States is still unsure who directed an unprovoked attack on Feb. 7 on U.S. and U.S.-backed rebel forces at the Syrian Democratic Forces headquarters in Syria, Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said on Saturday. He acknowledged accounts that Russian civilian contractors were involved. Reuters has reported that about 300 men working for a Kremlin-linked […]

A Russian schoolgirl was electrocuted in her bath after her smartphone fell into the water while it was connected to a charger, according to a report by MailOnline, citing a police statement. The 12-year-old has been identified only as Kseniya P. It is reported that she died instantly. Kseniya’s mother reportedly told police her daughter jumped in […]

China wants to increase its nuclear capabilities in order to properly defend itself, announced the Chinese military’s mouthpiece newspaper, the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) Daily. It published a commentary article on Jan. 30, seemingly in reaction to a U.S. Department of Defense document leaked to HuffPost earlier this month, which it cited. The document was a […]

A Russian man on a hunt with his dogs became the victim of one of his beloved pooches after one of them accidentally shot him in the abdomen. The man, 64-year-old Sergei Terekhov from Russia’s Saratov region, was unloading his dogs, both Estonian hounds, from the trunk of his car near the village of Dyakovka […]

WASHINGTON–The U.S. military has put countering China and Russia at the center of a new national defense strategy unveiled on Friday, the latest sign of shifting priorities after more than a decade and a half of focusing on the fight against Islamist terrorists. In presenting the new strategy, which will set priorities for the Pentagon […]

A blazing light turned night into day over much of Russia on Jan. 8, sparking speculation that North Korea was launching a nuclear attack, —or that the Russian government was testing a new weapon. Not so, said members of the government and the scientific community. it was just a common meteor. Many Russian citizens who […]

Russia hopes its $27 billion Yamal liquefied natural gas project will dent United States' recent inroads into the European natural gas market, which Russia has dominated for decades.

Since late October, more than 9,000 sealed indictments have been filed in districts across the United States. Sealed indictments are typically used in prosecuting individuals or criminal networks in cases where revealing names could lead individuals to flee or destroy evidence. As of Dec. 22, 2017, there were 9,294 sealed indictments, according to data collected by […]

The White House said on Friday that it certainly does not support Russia’s decision to veto a U.S.-drafted resolution that would have renewed an international inquiry into who is to blame for chemical weapons attacks in Syria. “We do hope that moving forward, they want to get on board and work with us on this. […]

A group of photographers camping out in Siberia to shoot the Northern Lights saw a sight every bit as spectacular and even more mysterious. Viewers were stunned to see a huge, glowing, bubble of light rise into the sky. It was weird, it was unidentifiable—and it was flying. It was an Unidentified Flying Object. According […]

CNN justice reporter Evan Perez has been reporting on the so-called Trump Dossier compiled by former UK intelligence agent Christopher Steele and funded by a firm called Fusion GPS using money supplied by the Democratic National Committee and the Hilary Clinton presidential campaign. What Perez has failed to report is that he was a former […]

News Analysis President Donald Trump’s patience seems to be running thin for Russian President Vladimir Putin’s covert backing of the North Korean regime. But addressing the problem could be difficult, says an expert in Russian foreign policy. Trump told Fox Business that while China was working to resolve the North Korea issue, Russia was undermining […]