Tag: Russia

It's still possible Robert Mueller could request additional information, but Trump's legal team remains optimistic that the special counsel's Russia probe is in the final stages. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

National Security

Mueller team found mystery ‘nude selfie,’ says indicted Russian company

Daniel Chaitin · December 27, 2018 11:52 pm

In this Tuesday, Dec. 5, 2017 file photo, former Alabama Chief Justice and U.S. Senate candidate Roy Moore speaks at a campaign rally, in Fairhope Ala. Republicans had a lock on all Alabama statewide offices until Jones' narrow win last year over Moore, who was already deemed too extreme for many moderate voters before he was accused of sexual misconduct with underage girls.

Alabama exploring whether Democratic disinformation cost Roy Moore a Senate seat

Naomi Lim · December 27, 2018 9:32 pm

Attorney Michael Cohen walks down the sidewalk in New York, Wednesday, April 11, 2018.

Michael Cohen’s phone placed him in Prague in 2016

Naomi Lim · December 27, 2018 8:13 pm

In this photo released by Saudi Press Agency, SPA, Saudi Crown Prince, Mohammed bin Salman addresses the Future Investment Initiative conference, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Wednesday, Oct. 24, 2018. The Crown Prince addressed the summit on Wednesday, his first such comments since the killing earlier this month of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi at the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul.

Beltway Confidential

Anger, control, Russia: Three reasons why the Saudi crown prince fired his foreign minister

Tom Rogan · December 27, 2018 7:58 pm

Mikhail Gorbachev flashes the decree relinquishing control of nuclear weapons to Russian President Boris Yeltsin after its signature at the Kremlin in Moscow on Wednesday, December 25, 1991. Gorbachev whose reforms gave Soviet citizens freedom but ultimately led to the destruction of his nation, resigned Wednesday as president of the defunct Soviet Union. Yeltsin now controls the arsenal of some 27,000 nuclear weapons.

Beltway Confidential

On the anniversary of its collapse, lessons from the USSR for the US on China

Erin Dunne · December 27, 2018 3:56 pm

Jerome Corsi: FBI, Mueller ‘harassing’ my family

Daniel Chaitin · December 27, 2018 2:20 pm

Bashar Assad and Russia are laying waste to civilian life. (Mikhail Klimentyev, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

Russia argues Assad should get US-held territory in Syria

Joel Gehrke · December 27, 2018 5:00 am

Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, left, Russian President Vladimir Putin, center, Chief of General Staff of Russia Valery Gerasimov, background center, and special representative on questions of ecology and transport, Sergei Ivanov, right, talk to each other as they come to oversee the test launch of the Avangard hypersonic glide vehicle from the Defense Ministry's control room in Moscow, Russia, Wednesday, Dec. 26, 2018. In the test, the Avangard was launched from the Dombarovskiy missile base in the southern Ural Mountains. The Kremlin says it successfully hit a designated practice target on the Kura shooting range on Kamchatka, 6,000 kilometers (3,700 miles) away.

Vladimir Putin touts successful ‘final test’ for hypersonic missile

Joel Gehrke · December 26, 2018 9:22 pm

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu chairs the weekly cabinet meeting at his Jerusalem office, Sunday, June 24, 2018.

Benjamin Netanyahu rebuffs Russian condemnation of Syria strikes

Joel Gehrke · December 26, 2018 9:08 pm

Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, and Chief of General Staff of Russia Valery Gerasimov oversee the test launch of the Avangard hypersonic glide vehicle from the Defense Ministry's control room in Moscow, Russia, Wednesday, Dec. 26, 2018. In the test, the Avangard was launched from the Dombarovskiy missile base in the southern Ural Mountains. The Kremlin says it successfully hit a designated practice target on the Kura shooting range on Kamchatka, 6,000 kilometers (3,700 miles) away.

Beltway Confidential

What Putin’s new hypersonic weapon means for America

Tom Rogan · December 26, 2018 7:41 pm

President Trump is spending Christmas with his family at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Fla. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

WATCH: Russia’s RT spoofs Trump with Christmas presents video

Kelly Cohen · December 25, 2018 9:26 pm

Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping attend a plenary session at the Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok, Russia, Wednesday, Sept. 12, 2018.

In Africa, the US needs to counteract China and Russia — without becoming them

Washington Examiner · December 24, 2018 5:00 am