Vladimir Putin Signs Bill Granting Himself Lifetime Immunity From Prosecution Once He Leaves Office
The Scottish Sun - Tue Dec 22, 2020
Vladimir Putin has signed a bill granting himself lifetime immunity from prosecution once he leaves office. More»
FBI says Iran and Russia have US voter information
BBC - Wed Oct 21, 2020
US national security officials have reported Iran was responsible for sending threatening emails to Democratic voters. More»
Neo-Nazi Rinaldo Nazzaro running US militant group "The Base" from Russia
BBC - Fri Jan 24, 2020
The American founder of US-based militant neo-Nazi group The Base is directing the organisation from Russia, a BBC investigation has found. More»
Russian Spies Used French Alps As 'Base Camp' For Hits On Britain And Other Countries
Yahoo News - Fri Dec 6, 2019
Fifteen Russian spies, including those accused of the Salisbury nerve agent attack, used the French Alps as a “base camp” to conduct covert operations around Europe over a five-year period, according to reports. More»
Russian Nuclear Scientists Killed In Accident Were Working On 'Cutting-Edge' Military Technologies, Putin Claims
CNN - Fri Nov 22, 2019
An accident at a Russian military test site that claimed the lives of five nuclear agency workers and sent radiation levels spiking is likely to remain shrouded in mystery, after Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov on Friday said information around the incident would stay "strictly classified. More»
Two Giuliani Ukraine associates indicted on campaign finance charges
Politico - Thu Oct 10, 2019
Two foreign-born associates of President Donald Trump's personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, were among those indicted on campaign finance charges made public on Thursday over alleged schemes to buy political influence on behalf of a Ukrainian government official and a Russian businessman. More»
Kremlin Warns U.S. Against Releasing Transcripts Of Trump's Calls With Putin
Huffington Post - Sat Sep 28, 2019
A Kremlin official warned Friday that any release of transcripts of phone calls between Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin could exacerbate problems that already exist between the nations. More»
Ukraine Imbroglio Confirms Giuliani's as Trump's Most Off-Kilter Advocate
The Guardian - Sat Sep 21, 2019
Rudy Giuliani admitted on live TV that he urged Ukraine to investigate Joe Biden, barely 30 seconds after denying it. More»
Russian Nuclear Monitoring Stations Went Silent After Missile Blast
Wall Street Journal - Tue Aug 20, 2019
Two Russian monitoring stations designed to detect nuclear radiation went silent soon after the explosion at a missile test site this month, spurring concerns among observers that the Russian government is trying to restrict evidence of the accident. More»
'Brief Radiation Spike' After Rocket Engine Blast In Northern Russia
BBC - Thu Aug 8, 2019
A rocket engine explosion on a naval test range in northern Russia has killed two people and injured six, the defence ministry told Russian media. More»
Sunken nuclear submarine leaking radiation into sea up to 800,000 times normal level
New York Post - Thu Jul 11, 2019
Scientists have identified a radiation leak on the wreck of a Russian nuclear submarine that sank in Arctic waters in 1989. More»
US "Ramping Up" Cyber Attacks on Russia
CNN - Sat Jun 15, 2019
Washington, DC - The US is escalating cyber attacks on Russia's electric power grid and has placed potentially crippling malware inside the Russian system, The New York Times reported Saturday. More»
Alleged Russian Whale Spy Defects To Norway
TreeHugger - Sun May 5, 2019
A wayward whale strapped with Russian equipment seems to have fallen for Norway and its people. More»
After Putin's warning, Russian TV lists nuclear targets in U.S.
Reuters - Tue Feb 26, 2019
MOSCOW - Russian state television has listed US military facilities that Moscow would target in the event of a nuclear strike, and said that a hypersonic missile Russia is developing would be able to hit them in less than five minutes. More»
Russia's Putin Accuses US Of Raising Risk Of Nuclear War
Reuters - Wed Dec 19, 2018
President Vladimir Putin on Thursday accused the United States of raising the risk of nuclear war by threatening to spurn a key arms control treaty and refusing to hold talks about another pact that expires soon. More»
Russia 'meddled in all big social media' around US election
BBC - Mon Dec 17, 2018
Russia used every major social media platform to influence the 2016 US election, a report claims. More»
Federal Prosecutors Recommend Substantial Prison Sentence For Michael Cohen
Huffington Post - Fri Dec 7, 2018
Federal prosecutors and special counsel Robert Mueller's office filed court documents on Friday that revealed new details about the government's cooperation with Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump's former personal lawyer, ahead of his sentencing next week. More»
Manafort held secret talks with Assange in Ecuadorian embassy
The Guardian - Mon Nov 26, 2018
Donald Trump's former campaign manager Paul Manafort held secret talks with Julian Assange inside the Ecuadorian embassy in London, and visited around the time he joined Trump's campaign, the Guardian has been told. More»
Russia issues chilling warning it is 'preparing for war' over the US withdrawal from landmark missile treaty
Daily Mail - Sat Oct 27, 2018
Russia has warned it is 'preparing for war' after US President Donald Trump announced he would be withdrawing from a landmark nuclear missile treaty this week. More»
Russia says space station leak may be sabotage
Phys.org - Tue Sep 4, 2018
Russia launched checks Tuesday after its space chief said an air leak on the International Space Station last week could have been deliberate sabotage. More»
Mystery as Russia LIQUIDATED almost ALL of its holdings in US Treasury securities during run up to Helsinki
Daily Mail - Sat Jul 28, 2018
The Russian government has sold off the vast majority of its holdings of US Treasury securities for reasons that remain mysterious, in a dramatic move that experts are calling unprecedented. More»
Microsoft Says Russia Tried to Hack Three 2018 Midterm Election Candidates
The Hacker News - Thu Jul 19, 2018
ASPEN, Colorado - Microsoft said it detected and helped the US government to block Russian hacking attempts against at least three congressional candidates this year, a Microsoft executive revealed speaking at the Aspen Security Forum today. More»
Maryland elections company bought by Russian oligarch close to Putin
The Guardian - Sat Jul 14, 2018
A company that provides key services for Maryland elections has been bought by a parent company with links to a Russian oligarch close to Vladimir Putin, state officials said on Friday after a briefing a day earlier from the FBI. More»
The Dreadful History of Children in Concentration Camps
The Conversation - Wed Jun 20, 2018
Children and family have been central to the institution of the concentration camp from its beginnings 120 years ago. More»
Documents raise new questions about Russian role in Brexit
Think Progress - Sat Jun 9, 2018
A trove of new emails revealed by the British press this weekend are helping shine new light on the role Russia may have played in backing the 2016 Brexit referendum. More»
U.S. Fighter Jets Intercept Russian Bombers off Alaskan Coast
Newsweek - Fri May 11, 2018
Two US fighter jets intercepted two Russian bombers in international airspace off the coast of Alaska on Friday, in the latest in a series of encounters between US and Russian warplanes. More»
More than 3,500 Facebook ads created by Russians is released
NPR - Fri May 11, 2018
WASHINGTON - Democrats on the House intelligence committee have released more than 3,500 Facebook ads that were created or promoted by a Russian internet agency, providing the fullest picture yet of Russia's attempt to sow racial and political division in the United States before and after the 2016 election. More»
DNC Sues Trump Campaign, WikiLeaks, Russia Over Election Interference
Bloomberg - Thu Apr 19, 2018
The Democratic National Committee sued Russia, the Trump campaign and WikiLeaks claiming widespread interference in the 2016 election as part of a "brazen attack on American democracy. More»
Murder Inquiry Over Russian Businessman's Death in London
BBC - Thu Mar 15, 2018
UK police have launched a murder investigation after the death of Russian businessman Nikolai Glushkov in south-west London. More»
UK Prime Minister May Expels 23 Russian Diplomats in Response to Spy Poisoning
The Guardian - Tue Mar 13, 2018
The UK is to expel 23 Russian diplomats, consider new laws to combat spying and look at sanctions as part of a sweeping response to the nerve agent attack in Salisbury, Theresa May has told parliament. More»