Tag: Russia

Energy and Environment

DOJ recovers most of ransom Colonial Pipeline paid to DarkSide hackers

Jerry Dunleavy · June 7, 2021 7:48 pm

A shopkeeper in Berdianske, a village on the frontline of the war between Ukraine and Russian-backed separatists has little faith the coming June 16 summit between President Joe Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin will be of much consequence to her life.

National Security

Biden-Putin summit of little importance in this war-torn Ukrainian village

Abraham Mahshie · June 7, 2021 1:42 pm

Three things to watch on Biden’s first foreign trip: Putin is main event of packed card

John T. Bennett · June 7, 2021 11:00 am

Biden rejoining the World Health Organization looks worse every day

Washington Examiner · June 7, 2021 4:00 am

Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm.

Energy secretary says US adversaries capable of shutting down the nation’s power grid

Mica Soellner · June 6, 2021 3:06 pm

Ukrainian Army officer Oleh K. is on the front line of Ukraine's battle with Russian-backed separatists in the eastern Donetsk region, where trench warfare is a daily part of a seven-year-long low intensity conflict.

Trench warfare: On the eastern Ukraine front line as conflict with Russia rages

Abraham Mahshie · June 6, 2021 11:00 am

Operations officer from the Ukrainian Navy Lt. Anatolii Badiul, 23, joined the Navy after it was decimated by Russia's seizure of Crimea in 2014, but heâs part of the young new class of sailors benefitting from U.S. assistance to reconstitute the Navy and help deter Russia in the Black Sea.

US helps Ukraine fend off Russia in Black Sea after most of fleet was captured with Crimea

Abraham Mahshie · June 5, 2021 7:26 pm

KHARKIV REGION, UKRAINE - DECEMBER 11, 2021 - Men in camouflage uniforms line up during the drills of the Territorial Defence units in Kharkiv Region, northeastern Ukraine.

Beltway Confidential

Military deterrence and realistic diplomacy: How Biden should approach Putin summit

Daniel Davis · June 5, 2021 12:40 pm

FBI Director Christopher Wray testifies during a hearing of the Appropriations Subcommittee for Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies, on Capitol Hill, Tuesday, May 7, 2019 in Washington.

FBI investigating 100 types of ransomware, many from Russian hackers

Nihal Krishan · June 4, 2021 10:00 pm

Records indicate White House attorney Don McGahn notified President Trump about the potential violations of the Logan Act days after his inauguration. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, File)

Don McGahn testifies about Mueller report after two-year legal battle

Jerry Dunleavy · June 4, 2021 7:43 pm

Uptick in ransomware attacks shares ‘a lot of parallels’ with 9/11: Wray

Jake Dima · June 4, 2021 12:13 pm

Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan addresses his ruling party members, in Ankara, Turkey, Friday, July 26, 2019.

Biden to huddle with Turkey’s Erdogan at NATO summit after calling him an ‘autocrat’

John T. Bennett · June 3, 2021 3:39 pm