Tag: Russia

Russian President Vladimir Putin described at least four new weapons, including new long-range cruise missile powered by a small nuclear reactor that supposedly can fly "indefinitely," a new hyper-glide vehicle that can bob and weave around radars, and an underwater drone armed with a massive nuclear warhead that could be floated to U.S. shores. (Alexei Nikolsky, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

Putin: New Russian missiles will give the West ‘food for thought’

Joel Gehrke · December 18, 2018 6:32 pm

Some of the earlier Facebook and Instagram ads linked to a Russian effort to disrupt the American political process and stir up tensions around divisive social issues.

Beltway Confidential

Russia’s memes had no quantifiable effect on our elections, but we have to keep hearing about it anyway

Eddie Scarry · December 18, 2018 5:34 pm

$The EPA action officially stayed portions of the 2016 New Source Performance Standard for oil and natural gas fracking operations. for 90 days.$ Beltway Confidential

Europe can break free from Russian energy dominance — if it embraces fracked natural gas from the US

Kevin Mooney · December 18, 2018 3:16 pm

President Trump prepares to make a speech at the White House in D.C.

Trump: Russia investigation should end immediately

Caitlin Yilek · December 18, 2018 2:38 pm

Russian President Vladimir Putin chairs a meeting of the State Council in the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, Thursday, April 5, 2018.

Russia doesn’t want ‘to lose the rest of Ukraine’

Joel Gehrke · December 18, 2018 1:59 am

President Donald Trump speaks at a luncheon with members of the United Nations Security Council in the Cabinet Room at the White House in Washington, Thursday, Dec. 5, 2019.

Sarah Sanders: Republicans must ‘stand up’ to James Comey

Diana Stancy Correll · December 18, 2018 1:25 am

Michael Flynn, former U.S. national security adviser, arrives for a status hearing at federal court in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday, July 10, 2018.

Newly released Mueller memo details Michael Flynn’s lies to the FBI

Kelly Cohen · December 18, 2018 12:42 am

Christopher Steele, who compiled an explosive and unproven dossier on President Donald Trumpâs purported activities in Russia, is pictured.

Trump-Russia dossier journalist doubts Christopher Steele’s claims

Naomi Lim · December 18, 2018 12:29 am

"He was not fired because he lied. He was fired because he just wasn't a good enough liar." (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

The question looming over Michael Flynn’s sentencing: Why did he lie?

Kelly Cohen · December 18, 2018 12:00 am

A Russian military truck carries a MSTA-S self-propelled howitzer about 10 kilometers from the Russia-Ukrainian border control point at town Donetsk, Rostov-on-Don region, Russia, Tuesday, Aug. 19, 2014. Ukrainian government troops were fighting pro-Russian rebels in the streets of Luhansk on Tuesday and captured most of a town near the eastern city of Donetsk, tightening the noose around that key rebel-held stronghold, Ukrainian officials said. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin)

US confirms Russia has ‘significant military capacity’ along Ukraine’s borders

Joel Gehrke · December 17, 2018 9:06 pm

A United Nations helicopter carrying Italian peacekeepers takes off from the UNIFIL headquarters for a patrol over the Blue Line, a U.N.-drawn boundary between Lebanon and Israel, in the costal town of Naqoura, southern Lebanon, Wednesday, Feb. 7, 2018. A statement by the Lebanese Higher Defense Council on Wednesday instructed the country's military to confront any Israeli "aggression" on its land or maritime borders. The statement comes amid escalating tensions between the two neighbors, who are technically at war.

Beltway Confidential

On Hezbollah tunnels, the UN is about to prove its own impotence

Tom Rogan · December 17, 2018 8:26 pm

Russia's strategic bomber Tu-160, the largest supersonic bomber in the world, lands at Engels Air Base near Saratov, about 700 kilometers (450 miles) southeast of Moscow, Thursday, Aug. 7, 2008.

Beltway Confidential

Russia will struggle to use its Caribbean bomber base to threaten America

Tom Rogan · December 17, 2018 8:02 pm