Tag: Russia

Putin says pro-Navalny demonstrations are ‘dangerous’ and ‘outside the law’

Mica Soellner · January 25, 2021 6:43 pm

Beltway Confidential

Biden must prepare for an imploding Russia

Janusz Bugajski · January 25, 2021 2:33 pm

Russia says US Embassy statement on protesters supports ‘violation of the law’

Tyler Van Dyke · January 24, 2021 3:17 pm

Biden should hold Russia accountable for Navalny poisoning, bipartisan House leaders say

Jerry Dunleavy · January 23, 2021 9:56 pm

State Department ‘strongly condemns’ Russian arrests of protesters and calls for them to be released

Zach Halaschak · January 23, 2021 9:34 pm

People clash with police during a protest against the jailing of opposition leader Alexei Navalny in St.Petersburg, Russia, Saturday, Jan. 23, 2021. Russian police on Saturday arrested hundreds of protesters who took to the streets in temperatures as low as minus-50 C (minus-58 F) to demand the release of Alexei Navalny, the country's top opposition figure. A Navalny, President Vladimir Putin's most prominent foe, was arrested on Jan. 17 when he returned to Moscow from Germany, where he had spent five months recovering from a severe nerve-agent poisoning that he blames on the Kremlin.

‘Putin is a thief’: Hundreds arrested across Russia during mass anti-corruption protests

Zach Halaschak · January 23, 2021 4:32 pm

In this Jan. 28, 2018, file photo, Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, centre, attends a rally in Moscow, Russia. Navalny is an anti-corruption campaigner and the Kremlinâs fiercest critic. He has outlasted many opposition figures and is undeterred by incessant attempts to stop his work.

Russia calls US notice of opposition protests ‘gross interference’ and warns of ‘response’

Zach Halaschak · January 23, 2021 3:07 am

Former White House national security aide Fiona Hill, left, and David Holmes, a U.S. diplomat in Ukraine, are sworn in to testify before the House Intelligence Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Nov. 21, 2019, during a public impeachment hearing of President Donald Trump's efforts to tie U.S. aid for Ukraine to investigations of his political opponents.

Declassified FBI notes show Steele claimed Fiona Hill knew about dossier source

Jerry Dunleavy · January 23, 2021 1:51 am

Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a meeting on economic issue in Moscow, Russia, Wednesday, Feb. 12, 2020.

Russia welcomes proposed US extension of nuclear pact, but says it will ‘depend on the details’

Zach Halaschak · January 22, 2021 10:03 pm

Opposition leader, facing Putin crackdown, throws a stripper pole into US-Russia relations

Joel Gehrke · January 22, 2021 9:50 pm

Beltway Confidential

Biden’s New START extension clears his desk to work on other Russia issues

Daniel DePetris · January 22, 2021 6:33 pm

Biden seeks five-year extension of New START treaty with Kremlin, asks for intelligence assessment on Russia

Jerry Dunleavy · January 21, 2021 10:48 pm