Tag: Russia

Russia mobilizing ‘legions’ of liars to sow coronavirus chaos: State Department

Joel Gehrke, Jerry Dunleavy · March 5, 2020 10:00 pm

No end in sight

Elizabeth Tsurkov · March 5, 2020 8:12 pm

Russia's Supreme Court judge Yuri Ivanenko reads the decision in a court room in Moscow, Russia. Russia's Supreme Court has banned the Jehovah's Witnesses from operating in the country. (AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev)

Crimean court convicts Jehovah’s Witness for ‘religious extremism,’ extending Russian crackdown on the group

Nicholas Rowan · March 5, 2020 6:14 pm

Beltway Confidential

In Moscow, Erdogan kneels to Putin

Tom Rogan · March 5, 2020 4:53 pm

President Obama still thinks Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Donna Brazile is doing a good job, despite the news Monday that she was ousted from her commentator job at CNN for leaking questions to Hillary Clinton. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)

Beltway Confidential

Donna Brazile is still pretending to be angry

Becket Adams · March 5, 2020 3:16 pm

Nuclear ‘blitzkrieg’: NATO ally Latvia fears Russia will stage swift invasion using small nukes

Joel Gehrke · March 5, 2020 7:00 am

FILE - In this June 14, 2018, file photo, the FBI seal is seen before a news conference at FBI headquarters in Washington. The FBI is grappling with a seemingly endless cycle of money laundering schemes that law enforcement officials say theyâre scrambling to slow through a combination of prosecution and public awareness. Beyond the run-of-the-mill plots, officials say, is a particularly concerning trend involving âmoney mules.â These are people who, unwittingly or not, use their own bank accounts to move money for criminals for purposes they think are legitimate or even noble.

National Security

Mexican accused of spying for Russia pleads not guilty

Caitlin Yilek · March 4, 2020 11:24 pm

Fistfights break out in Turkish Parliament over Syrian involvement

Zach Halaschak · March 4, 2020 10:31 pm

Beltway Confidential

Two years later, Russia can’t get over the GRU’s disastrous assassination mission in Britain

Tom Rogan · March 4, 2020 10:04 pm

Carter Page participates in the "Russia Hysteria in Context: Lies, Spies and Videotape" panel at Politicon at the Los Angeles Convention Center on Saturday, Oct. 20, 2018, in Los Angeles.

Judge agrees with DOJ in ruling against further declassification of Carter Page FISA documents

Jerry Dunleavy · March 4, 2020 5:39 pm

FILE - In this video grab file photo provided by RU-RTR Russian television via AP television on Thursday, March 1, 2018, a computer simulation shows the Avangard hypersonic vehicle being released from booster rockets. Russian President Vladimir Putin boasted about his country's prospective nuclear weapons, saying they are years and even decades ahead of foreign designs.

National Security

How Russia got hypersonic missiles before the US

Abraham Mahshie · March 3, 2020 11:22 pm

House GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy wants to demonstrate that Republicans have their own agenda to address climate change, but that the party disagrees with the aggressive path being charted by President Joe Biden and Democrats in Congress.

Energy and Environment

House Republicans call on Trump to promote fossil fuel exports to curb climate change

Josh Siegel · March 3, 2020 11:15 pm