Tag: Russia

Interior Ministry soldiers walk past the Manezh Square with the Kremlin at the background in Moscow, Russia, Monday, June 12, 2017.

Russia’s anti-Western propaganda campaign is a declaration of war

Henry Miller · January 2, 2019 6:15 pm

A Polish flag is set on half staff in Warsaw, Poland, Sunday, Dec. 23, 2018 during a day of national mourning in Poland for 12 Polish miners killed in an accident in a Czech coal mine on Thursday, Dec. 21, 2018.

How Poland views the Kremlin’s creeping aggression

Stanislaw Zaryn · January 2, 2019 5:53 pm

Syrian President Bashar Assad (left) and Russian President Vladimir Putin (right) are pictured.

Beltway Confidential

Why Russia and Assad are now ready to smash Idlib

Tom Rogan · January 2, 2019 5:34 pm

FILE - In this Oct. 16, 2012 file photo, Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney, left, and President Barack Obama spar during the second presidential debate at Hofstra University in Hempstead, N.Y. For presidential candidates, the town hall debate is a test of stagecraft as much as substance. When Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump meet in the Sunday, Oct.9, 2016, contest, theyâll be fielding questions from undecided voters seated nearby. In an added dose of unpredictability, the format allows the candidates to move around the stage, putting them in unusually close proximity to each other.

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Mitt Romney gives Barack Obama a foreign policy free pass

Tom Rogan · January 2, 2019 4:02 pm

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaks at a news conference in the press briefing room at the State Department in Washington, D.C.

US demands details of Michigan executive’s detention in Russia

Pete Kasperowicz · January 2, 2019 1:11 pm

Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a State Council meeting on the development of volunteering and socially oriented NGOs, at the Moscow's Kremlin, Russia, Thursday, Dec. 27, 2018.

Beltway Confidential

Chocolate cathedrals and the art of chekist humor

Tom Rogan · January 2, 2019 12:30 pm

Russian President Vladimir Putin leads a Security Council meeting in the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, Friday, Dec. 28, 2018.

US citizen Paul Whelan detained by Russia for suspected espionage

Naomi Lim · December 31, 2018 7:19 pm

This Aug. 29, 2017, file photo by the North Korean government shows what was said to be the test launch of a Hwasong-12 intermediate range missile in Pyongyang, North Korea.

Beltway Confidential

The 5 greatest threats to national security in 2019

Tom Rogan · December 31, 2018 4:33 pm

President Trump, right, listens as Polish President Andrzej Duda, left, speaks during a joint news conference in the East Room of the White House in D.C.

Energy and Environment

Trump helping Europe cut the electric cord with Russia

John Siciliano · December 31, 2018 5:00 am

Roger Stone speaks at the American Priority Conference in Washington Thursday Dec. 6, 2018.

Roger Stone turns on Jerome Corsi: He worked with Mueller to ‘sandbag me’

Daniel Chaitin · December 30, 2018 10:08 pm

Putin says he’s ready to talk to Trump after canceled G-20 meeting

Daniel Chaitin · December 30, 2018 8:00 pm

Kremlin press secretary Dmitry Peskov talks to a reporter in New York, Thursday, Nov. 10, 2016. In careful phrasing befitting the spy he once was, Vladimir Putin has made it clear he expects a great deal from President-elect Donald Trump. And, the billionaire businessman may expect a transactional relationship with Putin.

BBC sends official complaint to Russia about leak of Moscow staff info

Daniel Chaitin · December 29, 2018 11:47 pm