Tag: Russia

In this Monday, June 1, 2020 photo, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko meets with Valery Vakulchik, chief of the Belarusian state security service, KGB, in Minsk, Belarus.

Beltway Confidential

Alexander Lukashenko gives Russia the green light to save him and steal Belarus

Tom Rogan · August 19, 2020 5:02 pm

Diamond and Silk take the podium at a rally before President Donald Trump speaks in Fayetteville, N.C., Monday, Sept. 9, 2019.

Washington Secrets

Buzz: Diamond and Silk publish, Moscow pressed by Jim Gilmore, friend of House pages dies

Paul Bedard · August 19, 2020 3:47 pm

Andrew Weissmann warps Mueller testimony about Trump written answers

Jerry Dunleavy, Daniel Chaitin · August 19, 2020 1:22 am

Former Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates was fired by President Trump last year while serving as acting attorney general. Yates had refused to defend the president's initial travel ban. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

‘Russiagate’ figure Sally Yates blasts Trump performance as president during Democratic convention

Jerry Dunleavy · August 19, 2020 1:18 am

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry speaks to the media during a press conference in London after his meeting with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, Friday, March 14, 2014. Kerry arrived in London Friday, for his last meeting with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov before the Crimea vote.

Beltway Confidential

John Kerry's foreign policy wonderland

Tom Rogan · August 18, 2020 11:08 pm

Special counsel John Durham.

‘False’: US attorney rejects claims that John Durham is ‘acting out of political motives’

Anthony Leonardi · August 18, 2020 8:36 pm

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

Beltway Confidential

Will Egypt and Turkey go to war?

Tom Rogan · August 18, 2020 8:31 pm

Paul Manafort, President Donald Trump's former campaign chairman, departs Federal District Court, Thursday, Nov. 2, 2017, in Washington.

Senate report: Manafort role in Trump campaign posed ‘grave counterintelligence threat’ due to Russian contacts

Jerry Dunleavy · August 18, 2020 6:28 pm

Russian President Vladimir Putin is running for re-election in 2018.

Senate report details ‘counterintelligence threat’ posed by Russian influence campaign in 2016 election

Jerry Dunleavy · August 18, 2020 3:43 pm

Beltway Confidential

Why the US should sanction Russia if Vladimir Putin sends forces to Belarus

Tom Rogan · August 18, 2020 10:25 am

FILE - In this June 9, 2013 file photo provided by The Guardian Newspaper in London shows Edward Snowden, who worked as a contract employee at the National Security Agency, in Hong Kong. Former NSA systems analyst Edward Snowden, who is wanted by the U.S. for leaking details about once-secret surveillance programs, has been granted permission to stay in Russia for three more years, his lawyer said Thursday, Aug. 7, 2014. Snowden last year was granted temporary asylum of one year in Russia, but that ran out on Aug. 1. (AP Photo/The Guardian, Glenn Greenwald and Laura Poitras, File)

Trump faces Republican resistance after floating Snowden pardon

Jerry Dunleavy · August 18, 2020 2:16 am

Former GOP Rep. Susan Molinari, who backed Biden at DNC, used to lobby for Russia

Haley Victory Smith, Jerry Dunleavy · August 18, 2020 2:15 am