Tag: Russia

Attorney General Barr William Barr speaks at the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Criminal Coordination Conference, Thursday, Oct. 3, 2019, at the SEC in Washington.

Barr defends Durham’s overseas outreach in Trump-Russia origins investigation

Jerry Dunleavy · October 28, 2019 6:09 pm

A journalist presents a bunch of flowers to Russian agent Maria Butina, upon her arrival from the United States at Moscow International Airport Sheremetyevo outside Moscow, Russia, Saturday, Oct. 26, 2019. Butina, a gun rights activist who sought to infiltrate conservative U.S. political groups and promote Russia's agenda around the time that Donald Trump rose to power, was released Friday from a low-security facility in Florida.

Maria Butina claims she was ‘expelled’ from the ‘overly politicized’ NRA

Caitlin Yilek · October 28, 2019 2:30 pm

Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden speaks during a campaign event, Wednesday, Oct. 23, 2019, in Scranton, Pa.

Biden: Trump is ‘an idiot’ for calling Russian election interference a hoax

Naomi Lim · October 28, 2019 1:02 am

President Donald Trump speaks in the Diplomatic Room of the White House in Washington, Sunday, Oct. 27, 2019.

Beltway Confidential

Trump and America rightly dance on Baghdadi’s grave, but the fight against terror is never over

Tiana Lowe Doescher · October 27, 2019 2:23 pm

A journalist presents a bunch of flowers to Russian agent Maria Butina, upon her arrival from the United States at Moscow International Airport Sheremetyevo outside Moscow, Russia, Saturday, Oct. 26, 2019. Butina, a gun rights activist who sought to infiltrate conservative U.S. political groups and promote Russia's agenda around the time that Donald Trump rose to power, was released Friday from a low-security facility in Florida.

Maria Butina celebrated upon return to Moscow

Caitlin Yilek · October 26, 2019 3:15 pm

FILE - In this Monday, May 1, 2017 file photo, a gay rights activist holding a rainbow umbrella is detained by police during a rally marking May Day in downtown St. Petersburg, Russia. In the past two months, there have been large-scale detentions of gay men in Nigeria and Bangladesh, and chilling accounts of roundups and torture of scores of gays in Chechnya. In Indonesia, a major police raid on a gay sauna was followed two days later by the public caning of two gay men.

Beltway Confidential

Brave ABC journalist risks life to investigate anti-gay horrors in Chechnya

Brad Polumbo · October 25, 2019 6:57 pm

FILE - In this Thursday, Sept. 13, 2018 file photo a Russian honor guard prepares to take a part in a parade prior to a military exercises on training ground "Tsugol", about 250 kilometers (156 miles ) south-east of the city of Chita during Vostok 2018 in Eastern Siberia, Russia. The weeklong Vostok (East) 2018 maneuvers launched Tuesday span vast expanses of Siberia and the Far East, the Arctic and the Pacific Oceans. They involve nearly 300,000 Russian troops along with 1,000 Russian aircraft and 36,000 tanks and other combat vehicles.

Russian soldier kills eight in execution-style shootings at Siberia military base

Zach Halaschak · October 25, 2019 5:56 pm

President Donald Trump stands during a Presidential Medal of Freedom ceremony for auto racing great Roger Penske in the Oval Office of the White House, Thursday, Oct. 24, 2019, in Washington.

Washington Secrets

Trump accuses Obama of treason for ‘spying’ on his 2016 campaign

Paul Bedard · October 25, 2019 4:06 pm

In this courtroom sketch, Maria Butina, left, is shown next to her attorney Robert Driscoll, before U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan, during a court hearing at the U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C.

Maria Butina released from prison

Caitlin Yilek · October 25, 2019 3:43 pm

James Clapper, former director of National Intelligence, listens to testimony during the Senate Intelligence Committee hearing.

James Clapper struck by ‘interesting’ timing of DOJ criminal inquiry into Russia investigation

Daniel Chaitin · October 25, 2019 3:10 pm

Common thread in Trump’s unconventional foreign policy moves: ‘Wishful thinking’

Jamie McIntyre · October 25, 2019 3:00 am

Special counsel John Durham.

John Durham opens criminal inquiry in DOJ’s investigation of the investigators

Jerry Dunleavy · October 25, 2019 1:31 am