Russia
Russia
Vladimir Putin and Vodka. And probably oil. And Collusion.
Tuesday 14 May 2019
Gov. Ron DeSantis said that the F.B.I. had revealed to him which counties in the state had been targeted — then required the governor to keep the information secret.
Monday 18 March 2019
“the Moscow Project was a lucrative business opportunity that sought, and likely required, the assistance of the Russian government.”
Tuesday 26 February 2019
The strike on the Internet Research Agency in St. Petersburg, a company underwritten by an oligarch close to President Vladimir Putin, was part of the first offensive cyber campaign against Russia designed to thwart attempts to interfere with a U.S. election
Monday 25 February 2019
...and said that a hypersonic missile Russia is developing would be able to hit them in less than five minutes.
Sunday 24 February 2019
...Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said
Wednesday 20 February 2019
And in a clear reference to the United States, Putin said the Russian missiles also could be trained on where “the centers of decision-making are located.”
Saturday 16 February 2019
Key chairmen met with the House general counsel in a bid to put any subpoena fight on firm legal ground.
Friday 15 February 2019
“He thought that North Korea did not have the capability to launch such missiles,” McCabe writes. “He said he knew this because Vladimir Putin had told him so.”
Wednesday 6 February 2019
...amid complaints by Democrats that Treasury failed to deliver documents they requested regarding the department's decision to lift penalties targeting billionaire Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska, a close ally of President Vladimir Putin.
Video alleges to show US president meeting with former Russian officials in Moscow to discuss building an underground mall
Tuesday 5 February 2019
As a candidate, Donald Trump had a lot of praise for Vladimir Putin — and no business, he kept insisting, in Russia. These documents tell a different story.
Sunday 3 February 2019
Deripaska’s bureaucratic victories so far include overturning a 15-year ban on the use of aluminum wiring in residential construction and persuading local authorities across the country to build pedestrian bridges out of aluminum instead of steel for the first time in half a century.
Saturday 2 February 2019
Putin also said that Russia would build weapons previously banned under the treaty and would no longer initiate talks with the United States on any matters related to nuclear arms control.
Friday 1 February 2019
Filings unsealed by the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals named Atlanta-based Alston and Bird as the firm that has been battling with federal prosecutor
The decision has the potential to incite a new arms race — not only with Russia, but also with China
"For years, Russia has violated the terms of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty without remorse"
Thursday 31 January 2019
...indictments, international sanctions, a botched assassination and an unprecedented global spotlight have done little to deter Vladimir Putin from continuing to target the West with his hacker army
Wednesday 30 January 2019
‘Impressing the NRA’s Russian hosts is the quickest way to secure a private interview with President Putin’
Tuesday 29 January 2019
Trump reportedly keeps finding a way to meet the Russian leader privately.
Monday 28 January 2019
But now the N.R.A. is seeking to distance itself from the trip, after revelations that a Russian woman who helped arrange it, Maria Butina, was conspiring to infiltrate the organization.
Sunday 27 January 2019
Deripaska is ally of Russian president Vladimir Putin
The Tu-160s remained in international space and did not enter Canadian or U.S. territory
Thursday 24 January 2019
Government Shutdown Day 34
The European Union punished four Russians this week in connection with the Skripal poisoning, but the U.S. hasn't moved forward with its own penalties.
Think of it as WikiLeaks, but without Julian Assange’s aversion to posting Russian secrets.
Monday 21 January 2019
Government Shutdown Day 31
Under Republican leadership, the United States is starting to look an awful lot like the failed Soviet system the party once stood unified against.
Wednesday 16 January 2019
Government Shutdown Day 26
Trump spoke with a reporter [...] on July 8, 2017 and insisted that Russia was “falsely accused” of meddling in the 2016 election contest. Trump apparently demanded that most of this conversation be conducted off the record
“The fact that Mr Trump didn’t want the State Department or members of the White House team to know what he was talking with Mr Putin about suggests it was not about advancing our country’s national interest but something more problematic.”
The interpreters working for Soviet leaders were trained to take nearly verbatim stenographic notes. Declassified Soviet records of Cold War talks are often more detailed than official American notes on the same conversations
Tuesday 15 January 2019
Government Shutdown Day 25
Russian Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev warned Tuesday that Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko's current pro-West strategy could lead to a total dismantling of the state.
Monday 14 January 2019
Government Shutdown Day 24
There are few things that President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia desires more than the weakening of NATO
Sunday 13 January 2019
Government Shutdown Day 23
We don’t need news reports to tell us that Trump is giving Putin what he wants. Take it from this longtime Russia hand: It’s staring us in the face.
Trump said it was the "most insulting" question he'd ever been asked.
Saturday 12 January 2019
Government Shutdown Day 22
The constraints that Trump imposed are part of a broader pattern by the president of shielding his communications with Putin from public scrutiny and preventing even high-ranking officials in his own administration from fully knowing what he has told one of the United States’ main adversaries.
We now know that Trump took possession of the translator’s notes from that meeting, and told the translator not to discuss what had happened with other people in the administration.
Thursday 10 January 2019
Government Shutdown Day 20
...there appeared to be a strange and inexplicable synergy between the Trump campaign and Russia’s propaganda offensive.
Tuesday 8 January 2019
Government Shutdown Day 18
The accusations came to light in a document filed by Mr. Manafort’s defense lawyers that was supposed to be partly blacked out but contained a formatting error that accidentally revealed the information.
Monday 7 January 2019
Government Shutdown Day 17
According to the unredacted versions posted online, the blacked-out sections showed that Manafort has been accused by Mueller of lying about his sharing of polling data on the 2016 campaign with Kilimnik.
Friday 4 January 2019
Government Shutdown Day 14
Newly empowered Democrats are trying to force the administration’s hand on Manafort-linked Oleg Deripaska.
Thursday 3 January 2019
Government Shutdown Day 13
The president’s endorsement of the U.S.S.R.’s invasion of Afghanistan echoes a narrative promoted by Vladimir Putin.
Wednesday 2 January 2019
Government Shutdown Day 12
"The reason Russia was in Afghanistan was because terrorists were going into Russia. They were right to be there," Trump said.
Tuesday 1 January 2019
Government Shutdown Day 11
Conviction on a spying charge in Russia carries a prison sentence of up to 20 years.
Monday 31 December 2018
Government Shutdown Day 10
Kudryavtsev, an emaciated man with a failing heart, is facing up to 20 years in prison for sending two emails to his European colleagues.
Thursday 27 December 2018
Government Shutdown Day 6
"Officials in Moscow looked at the 2016 U.S. presidential race and asked, ‘Which candidate would we like to have sitting in the White House? Who will help us achieve our goals?’ And they chose him."
Russian state media seems to be preparing the public for upcoming revelations of a sexual nature
Pictures show Turkish armoured vehicles being sent to the border with Syria
Saturday 22 December 2018
Government Shutdown Day 1
Building support for Stein was one of a “roster of themes” the Moscow-sanctioned internet trolls “turned to repeatedly”
Monday 17 December 2018
The report says that while “other distinct ethnic and religious groups were the focus of one or two Facebook Pages or Instagram accounts, the black community was targeted extensively with dozens.”
Sunday 16 December 2018
...and amounted to what researchers called a "propaganda war against American citizens."
Thursday 13 December 2018
Butina admitted to acting "under direction of" a Russian official whom CNN has identified as Alexander Torshin
Monday 10 December 2018
Maria Butina [...] has agreed to plead guilty to conspiring to act as a foreign agent
Sunday 9 December 2018
The Russian ambassador. A deputy prime minister. A pop star, a weightlifter, a lawyer, a Soviet army veteran with alleged intelligence ties.
Friday 7 December 2018
“one of the greatest intelligence operations in history”
Wednesday 5 December 2018
Around 500,000 comments were linked to Russian email addresses.
Monday 3 December 2018
Friday 30 November 2018
“Is the provocation started by Kiev in this area (Azov Sea) a real reason for the cancellation? We heard that as an official version and we accepted that. Is it a real one? I believe we should look for answers in the U.S. domestic political situation”
Thursday 29 November 2018
“Buddy,” Mr. Sater wrote, “our boy can become President of the USA and we can engineer it.”
Trump apparently did not know or did not care that the special counsel had released email evidence bolstering Mr. Cohen’s current position.
The revelation that representatives of the Trump Organization planned to forge direct financial links with the leader of a hostile nation at the height of the campaign raises fresh questions about President Trump's relationship with the Kremlin.
...an hour after he told reporters he would probably meet with the Russian president.
"Based on the fact that the ships and sailors have not been returned to Ukraine from Russia, I have decided it would be best for all parties concerned to cancel my previously scheduled meeting"
Tuesday 27 November 2018
“I have a gut, and my gut tells me more sometimes than anybody else’s brain can ever tell me.”
“One of the problems that a lot of people like myself, we have very high levels of intelligence but we’re not necessarily such believers,” Trump said. “You look at our air and our water, and it’s right now at a record clean.”
The handling of sensitive U.S. government information has long been a sticking point in the case.
Monday 26 November 2018
...leaving the task of criticizing Moscow to the outgoing US ambassador to the UN.
Sunday 25 November 2018
Two gunboats and a tug were captured by Russian forces. Ukraine says they were fired on and six crew were injured.
Both Syria and its Russian allies say shells carrying toxic gas injured about 100 people late on Saturday.
The rebels deny carrying out a chemical strike and say the claims are a pretext for an attack on opposition-held areas.
Monday 19 November 2018
One of the hardest things to accept about the Trump-Russia saga is how transparent it is. So much of the evidence is hiding in plain sight, and somehow that has made it harder to accept.
Thursday 15 November 2018
Mr. Pence didn't appear to smile during the conversation. Messrs. Bolton and Putin did a fair amount of the talking, as Mr. Pence stood and listened.
Sunday 11 November 2018
"Patriotism is the exact opposite of nationalism: nationalism is a betrayal of patriotism"
Saturday 10 November 2018
Friday 9 November 2018
Thursday 8 November 2018
The move is another example of the Trump administration's willingness to at times be tougher on Russia than the president's rhetoric suggests.
Wednesday 7 November 2018
Monday 5 November 2018
A US Navy reconnaissance aircraft flying in international airspace over the Black Sea was intercepted by a Russian fighter jet Monday
Wednesday 31 October 2018
A hole was gouged in the deck of Russia's only aircraft carrier, the Admiral Kuznetsov, Tuesday when a crane fell on it while the vessel was undergoing repairs
Thursday 25 October 2018
The Russian anti-satellite weapon [...] is expected to target communication and imagery satellites in low Earth orbit
Wednesday 24 October 2018
Trump’s aides have repeatedly warned him that his cellphone calls are not secure, and they have told him that Russian spies are routinely eavesdropping on the calls, as well.
Tuesday 23 October 2018
US security adviser's meeting with Russia's leader comes days after Trump voiced plan to end major arms control treaty.
Tuesday 16 October 2018
Friday 12 October 2018
The Global Magnitsky Act extends the sanctions stipulated by the original Magnitsky Act to human rights violators outside of Russia.
Wednesday 10 October 2018
"In these strange and troubling times, it is hard to speak unpalatable truths to power, but I believe we all still have a duty to do so"
Thursday 4 October 2018
Russia’s troll army was not interested in stirring up generic ‘chaos’ in America. The Kremlin is strategically tapping into the inexhaustible fuel source of white grievance.
Media reports in Russia say he died Wednesday night when his helicopter crashed into a forest during an unauthorized flight in the Kostroma region, northeast of Moscow.
...accusing them in a sprawling indictment of hacking, wire fraud, identity theft and money laundering as part of an effort to distract from Russia's state-sponsored doping program.
Thursday 27 September 2018
Russia's foreign ministry called the findings "a new portion of fake news."
Monday 24 September 2018
Reddit users have uncovered an elaborate campaign to seed Reddit’s most popular pro-Trump community with content linked to Russian influence operations
A meticulous analysis of online activity during the 2016 campaign makes a powerful case that targeted cyberattacks by hackers and trolls were decisive.
Russia laid the blame squarely on Israel, saying Israeli fighter jets had pushed the Russian plane into the line of Syria's fire.
On Friday, in the latest incident, Norwegian authorities arrested a 51-year-old Russian man on suspicion that he unlawfully gathered information during an inter-parliamentary seminar on digitization this month in Norway.
Sunday 23 September 2018
The Times has filed multiple Freedom of Information Act requests for data on the comments since July 2017, and now [...] it is taking the FCC to court in a bid to get the information.
Friday 21 September 2018
China's purchase of the weapons from Rosoboronexport, Russia's main arms exporter, violated a 2017 law [...] intended to punish the government of President Vladimir Putin for interfering in U.S. elections and other activities.
Wednesday 19 September 2018
Butina [...] encouraged pro-gun demonstrations in the U.S. as early as 2014
Tuesday 18 September 2018
...after a Russian plane was shot down by Syrian forces amid an Israeli air raid.
Monday 17 September 2018
Friday 14 September 2018
There could be other explanations for this performance as well. The sheer effrontery of the interview, like the effrontery of this attack, sends a message: We don’t care what any of you think.
“Traces of drilling have been found not only inside the spacecraft’s living compartment, but also on the screen of the anti-meteorite shield that covers the spacecraft”
Thursday 13 September 2018
...documents that would explain what President Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin discussed in their July one-on-one meeting in Helsinki.
They did not offer any explanation for how the London hotel room they had stayed in came to have traces of Novichok
The two information technology companies are actually North Korean-controlled entities, the Treasury Department said in a statement
Wednesday 12 September 2018
Russia and Japan are involved in a dispute over Kuril islands, captured by the Soviet Union at World War II's end.
"I call on them to appear before the media and tell their story," Putin said
Tuesday 11 September 2018
Russia sailed a small armada of its navy ships into the Mediterranean and has signaled that it would retaliate against the US if there was a strike.
The strong suspicion that Russia was behind the alleged attacks is backed by signals intelligence, meaning intercepted communications
Monday 10 September 2018
Democrats are holding back in going after Sessions over the discrepancy, because they worry that if they go too hard at Sessions, it could provide Trump with a pretext for firing him.
Friday 7 September 2018
"Two Alaskan-based NORAD F-22 fighters intercepted and visually identified two Tu-95 'Bear' long-range bomber aircraft flying in the Alaskan Air Defense Identification Zone, south of the Aleutian Islands"
Wednesday 5 September 2018
Investigators released a cache of evidence in the case, including security camera images that captured the progress of two husky men from an Aeroflot flight to the scene of the crime, near the victim’s home, and from there back to Moscow.
British authorities posted on Wednesday detailed surveillance camera images and other information tracking the two men moving through busy Gatwick Airport, crowded London train and subway stations and the streets of Salisbury — all while allegedly carrying the military-grade poison.
Monday 3 September 2018
Saturday 1 September 2018
Among the things Ohr said he learned from Steele during the breakfast was that an unnamed former Russian intelligence official had communicated that Russian intelligence believed “they had Trump over a barrel”
Thursday 30 August 2018
Small leak [...] Russian side
Tuesday 28 August 2018
The Republican senator from Arizona, who planned his own funeral, chose Russian dissident Vladimir Kara-Murza as one of the dignitaries to carry his coffin to the front of the Washington National Cathedral
Monday 27 August 2018
The Russian Ministry of Defence said on Monday it had noticed Washington was building up its military forces in the Middle East in preparation for what Moscow feared was a possible strike on Syrian government forces
Friday 24 August 2018
“Think of something!!” he replied. “Sex with you does not interest me.”
Many posted both pro- and anti-vaccination messages to create "false equivalency"
Wednesday 22 August 2018
Russia is buying lots of gold to shield it from sanctions
Tuesday 21 August 2018
A group affiliated with the Russian government created phony versions of six websites — including some related to public policy and to the U.S. Senate — with the apparent goal of hacking into the computers of people who were tricked into visiting
Monday 20 August 2018
Russia accused the United States of trying to break the spirit in jail of Maria Butina, a woman U.S. authorities say is a Russian government agent, and complained she was being subjected to “borderline torture.”
Saturday 18 August 2018
Wednesday 15 August 2018
"[The satellite's] behaviour on-orbit was inconsistent with anything seen before from on-orbit inspection or space situational awareness capabilities, including other Russian inspection satellite activities,"
Sunday 12 August 2018
Thursday 9 August 2018
In practice however, there is little Russia can do to hit back at the United States without damaging its own economy.
...and said the reason for the new restrictions — allegations it poisoned a former spy and his daughter in Britain — were far-fetched.
Wednesday 8 August 2018
The sanctions again highlighted the gap between President Trump’s conciliatory language toward Russia and the tough position taken by many in Congress and within the administration itself.
Saturday 4 August 2018
...her attempts at connecting with prominent American conservatives extended beyond making inroads with the gun-rights group.
Friday 3 August 2018
Butina repeatedly bragged about her work as a spy for the Russian government while drunk
The United States on Friday imposed sanctions on a Russian bank it said had facilitated a transaction with a person blacklisted by Washington for involvement with North Korea’s nuclear weapons program.
Thursday 2 August 2018
US counter-intelligence investigators discovered a suspected Russian spy had been working undetected in the heart of the American embassy in Moscow for more than a decade
“I'm not in a position to either understand fully or talk about what happened in Helsinki”
...in a rejection of denials of meddling that Russian President Vladimir Putin made directly to Trump.
"We should no longer be talking about if the Russians attempted to interfere with American society. They've been doing it since the days of the Soviet Union, and they're still doing it today."
Wednesday 1 August 2018
The midterms are approaching, and the president has yet to get serious about protecting the nation’s electoral system from cyberinvasion.
Tuesday 31 July 2018
"It's clear that whoever set up these accounts went to much greater lengths to obscure their true identities than the Russian-based Internet Research Agency (IRA) has in the past"
Monday 30 July 2018
All states, to some extent or another, rely on these private companies for election products. But despite the central role these companies play, state regulations of them are relatively lax.
Saturday 28 July 2018
“2 guys dressed as russian soldiers in 90F heat to ‘protect’ Trump’s Hollywood Walk Of Fame star from vandalism. That’s next level trollism!”
Trump faces potential legal and political danger if it’s proven he knew in advance about a meeting his son and campaign aides had with Russians said to be promising dirt on Hillary Clinton
Friday 27 July 2018
One of the main deals announced between Russian President Vladimir Putin and his U.S. counterpart Donald Trump at their summit last week in Helsinki -- coordinated steps to help stabilize the situation in Syria -- is already running into trouble.
...there is surprisingly far more effort directed at implanting malware in the electrical grid.
“We are ready to invite President Trump to Moscow. He has, by the way, such an invitation, I told him about it,” Putin said
Thursday 26 July 2018
McCaskill is a top target for Republicans looking to grow their slim Senate majority in 2018. Turns out, Russia’s “Fancy Bear” hackers are going after her staff, too.
...explaining that the audio level on Mason's microphone was not raised in time for the stenographer to capture the beginning of his question because a translator was still speaking.
Wednesday 25 July 2018
"The president believes that the next bilateral meeting with President Putin should take place after the Russia witch hunt is over, so we've agreed that it will be after the first of the year"
What happened? If you watch the videos, it’s pretty clear. At some point in the middle of that question, there’s a switch between the feed from the reporters and the feed from the translator.
“What the White House has disappeared from the official U.S. government record of that meeting ... is President Putin answering in the affirmative when asked if he wanted Trump to win the election”
Tuesday 24 July 2018
The move to scale back sanctions stands in sharp contrast to mounting bipartisan fervor in the Senate to get tougher on Russia
While the intelligence agencies are silent on the impact of Russia’s attack, outside experts who have examined the Kremlin campaign [...] have concluded that it did affect an extremely close election decided by fewer than 80,000 votes in three states.
Monday 23 July 2018
On Sunday, congressional Republicans fanned out on TV to deliver a common message. [...] They staged a collective intervention, begging him to understand that Russian interference could be true even if collusion by Trump’s campaign wasn’t.
They said the campaign likely is continuing.
One of the areas where Trump has been most consistent is in dismissing the investigation and the individuals in the intelligence community who have concluded that Russia could not be trusted.
Sunday 22 July 2018
In the nearly two years since Russia attacked the American democratic process, congressional Republicans have played conflicting roles in the drama
Saturday 21 July 2018
Trump further grumbled about the tough question he was asked by Jonathan Lemire [...] Lemire asked whether Trump would denounce Russia’s election interference to Putin’s face, “with the whole world watching,” and the president demurred.
“We say to Trump, instead of showing us your strength by tearing children from their families, where was your strength in standing up to Putin and Russia for undermining American democracy”
Friday 20 July 2018
Some on the far right see Putin as the restorer of Christendom; others simply see him as a champion of the white race. Donald Trump apparently sees Putin as the savior of, well, Donald Trump.
Russia provided additional details Friday of what it said were agreements made at the presidential summit in Helsinki this week, shaping a narrative of the meeting with no confirmation or alternative account from the Trump administration.
Mnuchin’s comment was the latest indication the Trump administration was trying to aid sanctions-hit Rusal, which has taken a series of steps to try to appease the U.S. government and get the restrictions lifted.
The US State Department has issued a statement criticizing Russia every year since the 2014 attack on Malaysian Airlines Flight 17 which killed 298 people - but not this year.
Russian authorities took the opportunity to show off some of the new weaponry Putin boasted in March would render NATO defenses "completely useless."
"Say that again?" said Coats, laughing. "Did I hear you right? Okaaaay. That's going to be special."
Thursday 19 July 2018
Trump’s disastrous performance [...] has sent West Wing morale to its lowest level since the Charlottesville fiasco almost a year ago.
No date has been announced for the follow-up encounter
...national security adviser John Bolton extended the invitation and that “discussions are already underway.”
Over the course of my career as an undercover officer in the C.I.A., I saw Russian intelligence manipulate many people. I never thought I would see the day when an American president would be one of them.
The fallout over the president’s visit with the Russian president is showing no signs of slowing down.
The willingness of the White House to contemplate handing over a former U.S. ambassador for interrogation by the Kremlin drew ire and astonishment from current and former U.S. officials. Such a proposition is unheard of.
Wednesday 18 July 2018
For the third straight day, President Trump cast doubt on whether he views Russia as a threat
At issue is a grants program overseen by the federal Election Assistance Commission and aimed at helping states administer their elections and improve voting systems
Russia state-owned outlet RT reported that Russia wanted to question McFaul and Christopher Steele [...] and others in its investigation into American financier Bill Browder. Browder is a prominent critic of Putin
They described a double life in which the woman, Maria Butina, studied at American University and dated a Republican operative from South Dakota, but secretly stayed in contact with a high-ranking official in Moscow and took part in the romance simply as part of the job.
What he had intended to say, according to a Russian government spokesman, was that business associates of the U.S. born investor William Browder had donated $400,000 to Clinton’s campaign.
The exercises are set to take place over the next two weeks amid a standoff with the United States and Europe over the fate of Ukraine’s autonomous Crimea region, currently occupied by Russian troops.
His assessment of Russia’s current aggression is at odds with the views of U.S. intelligence officials.
Tuesday 17 July 2018
It is the latest initiative by national security agencies to push back against Russian aggression in the absence of direct guidance from the White House on the issue.
...to answer questions about Trump’s meetings with Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.
“President Putin, did you want President Trump to win the election and did you direct any of your officials to help him do that?”
“Yes, I did. Yes, I did. Because he talked about bringing the U.S.-Russia relationship back to normal.”
"You encouraged espionage against our people. You are willing to spout the Putin line, sign up for his wish list: break up NATO, do whatever he wants to do," Clinton said. "You continue to get help from him because he has a very clear favorite in this race."
These continuing attacks are neither meddling nor “interference,” another euphemism. They’re a part of 'gibridnaya voyna' — Russian for “hybrid warfare.”
This was the grand plan from the White House after the whole western world rose up in arms against Trump's performance standing next to Russian President Vladimir Putin at a press conference Monday: Uhh...we meant to say wouldn't, not would!
Trump reversed course on Tuesday, saying he meant to say: “I don’t see any reason why it wouldn’t be Russia.”
Predictably, the President was upset when he saw negative coverage of the summit airing on television aboard Air Force One. It was clear he was getting little support, even from the usual places.
Republicans who looked past the release of his recorded remarks about grabbing women and his refusal to denounce neo-Nazi protesters, or complained but took no substantive action when he imposed tariffs on allies, found their line in the sand after he sided with Putin against the U.S. intelligence community’s consensus that Russia interfered in the 2016 election.
Monday 16 July 2018
Trump is either an asset of Russian intelligence or really enjoys playing one on TV.
But today the question of where the president’s loyalties lie is a legitimate one
“This is an incredibly powerful tribute to the power of the Magnitsky Act. This shows I’ve found Putin’s Achilles’ heel, that he’s very rattled by it”
Trump went on to condemn the expansive federal investigation of Russian interference as “a disaster for our country” and “a total witch hunt”
McCain described the 45-minute press conference as “one of the most disgraceful performances by an American president in memory.”
The charges were filed under seal on Saturday [...] They were unsealed just hours after Mr. Trump stood beside Mr. Putin and said he saw no reason the Russian leader would try to influence the presidential election.
The official also said that Trump doesn't want aides -- who may take a harder line on Russia -- undercutting or interrupting him during his talks with Putin.
Trump said “we will have discussions on everything from trade to military to nuclear,” as well as relations with China, but he did not mention Russia’s interference in the 2016 election that brought Mr. Trump to power.
In tweets right before the summit in Finland, the president blames the U.S., not Moscow, for the state of affairs.
The two men were due to start their bilateral summit at 1 p.m. local time (6 a.m. ET) but the Russian president didn’t even land in Helsinki until a few minutes after that time. However, Trump then delayed leaving his hotel [...] for the Presidential Palace, where the meeting was set to take place, making Putin arrive at the venue first.
"They're quite obviously playing Trump. They consider him a stupid, unstrategic politician. Putin is confident that he can manipulate Trump to his advantage, and he should be."
Sunday 15 July 2018
All he really needs to make his meeting with Mr. Trump a success is for it to take place without any major friction
He will arrive in Helsinki after presiding over the final game of the World Cup [...] and will meet an American president who has spent the last week berating his NATO allies and undercutting his host in Britain, Prime Minister Theresa May.
—Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia🇷🇺
Saturday 14 July 2018
Whether it is Russia’s interference in the election, its annexation of Crimea or its intervention in Syria, Mr. Trump’s statements either undercut, or flatly contradict, those of his lieutenants.
Friday 13 July 2018
While the Russian government claims it needs this DNS alternative as a defensive measure to avoid American and Western European cyberattacks, security experts worry it could be used as a backup for an offensive attack.
Trump said Putin should not be considered his enemy but rather his competitor — and after spending some time together here in this vibrant seaside Nordic capital, Trump said he hoped they might quickly become friends.
The vendor, ByteGrid LLC, was purchased by a Russian investor in 2015 without knowledge of Maryland state officials
Trump's call for Russia to hack his opponent during the election—which his defenders dismissed as a "joke"—was taken very seriously indeed by Russian hackers. He asked them to, and they did.
“I think that we’re being hurt very badly by the rigged witch hunt”
Thursday 12 July 2018
"They were specifically looking for one in the flight path that Donald Trump will take when he comes to the UK this week”
Hailing himself, again, as a “stable genius,” he took “total credit” for persuading his allies to increase military spending beyond established markers — a claim that was nearly immediately undercut by at least one European leader.
Wednesday 11 July 2018
Trump’s blowup at the NATO summit is exactly what Russia hoped would happen.
“I experienced the Soviet occupation of one part of Germany myself. It is good that we are independent today,” said Merkel, who grew up in East Germany, a former satellite state of the Soviet Union.
Trump accused Germany of being "totally controlled by Russia" due to its energy deals with Moscow
Monday 9 July 2018
What is missing from our imagination is the unlikely but possible outcome on the other end: that this is all much worse than we suspect.
Sunday 8 July 2018
...bringing new urgency to a four-month-old diplomatic standoff in which Britain has accused Russia of sending the poison to a small city in southern England in a botched attempt to kill a former spy.
The Americans were blunt: If Ecuador refused to drop the resolution, Washington would unleash punishing trade measures and withdraw crucial military aid.
It was the Russians who ultimately stepped in to introduce the measure — and the Americans did not threaten them.
Friday 6 July 2018
“The president thinks he can be friends with Putin,” former national security adviser H.R. McMaster complained during his time in the White House, according to U.S. officials. “I don’t know why, or why he would want to be.”
Thursday 5 July 2018
Wednesday 4 July 2018
Two British citizens have been critically sickened by the same nerve agent, Novichok, that was used to poison a former Russian spy and his daughter four months ago
Tuesday 3 July 2018
In yet another contradiction to Trump allies claims, the Senate panel also found that a piece of Democratic-funded opposition research known as the Steele dossier did not "in any way inform the analysis in the ICA — including the key findings."
Monday 2 July 2018
Trump has told planners he wants the event to feel monumental, in the style of previous summit meetings between US and Russian leaders.
Collectively, they put the administration on a potential collision course with the rules-based world trading system forged by the United States and its allies
Sunday 1 July 2018
Thursday 28 June 2018
Their efforts to simultaneously cultivate ties to Russian officials and Trump’s campaign have captured the interest of investigators in the United Kingdom and the United States
...a politically delicate meeting that will take place while the special counsel continues to investigate the Trump campaign’s possible ties to Russia.
The unsealed search warrant, however, reveals further details about Manafort’s business dealings with Deripaska, whom the U.S. government sanctioned in April.
Winner's leak of a single document confirming not only everyone's suspicions, but things already stated by US government officials, will net her the longest sentence ever imposed on someone charged under the Espionage Act.
Wednesday 27 June 2018
Bolton once said Russia's election interference was a "true act of war" against the US, and that a policy based on trusting Russia was "doomed to failure."
The summit is expected to take place somewhere outside Russia while Trump is in Europe in mid-July for previously scheduled visits to Belgium and Britain.
Tuesday 26 June 2018
Friday 22 June 2018
As the plot in the United States is slowly exposed, a remarkably similar one in the United Kingdom is quickly surfacing.
Thursday 21 June 2018
...more the double the number previously given by the Department of Homeland Security.
Tuesday 19 June 2018
Commerce Secretary Wilbur L. Ross Jr. shorted stock in a shipping firm — an investment tactic for profiting if share prices fall — days after learning that reporters were preparing a potentially negative story about his dealings with the Kremlin-linked company.
Friday 15 June 2018
A host of a news show on state-run channel Russia 24 declared "Crimea is ours! Trump is ours!" following a report that US President Donald Trump suggested Crimea is part of Russia.
After Singapore, the President is pressing ahead with the meeting that he’s always wanted.
Thursday 14 June 2018
“I could say ‘Would you do me a favor? Would you get out of Syria?’ ‘Would you do me a favor, would you get out of Ukraine? You shouldn’t be there. Just come on,” he said.
Tuesday 12 June 2018
Mueller warned that Russian intelligence services still have active “interference operations” into U.S. elections and that handing over certain evidence in a criminal case could imperil ongoing investigations.
Friday 8 June 2018
One of Russia’s principal foreign-policy goals for decades has been to split the United States from is allies. Whether by accident or by design, President Trump appears intent on bringing that dream to fruition.
Friday 1 June 2018
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Wednesday 30 May 2018
Ukrainian authorities said they had staged the killing as a sting operation.
Hrytsak told local journalists that the alleged hit had been ordered by the Russian security services
Tuesday 29 May 2018
Babchenko, a Russian journalist who was a critic of the Kremlin’s military intervention in Ukraine, was shot and killed Tuesday evening in Kiev
Monday 28 May 2018
For a man with a lot of serious issues he needs to address every day, President Trump plainly spends a lot of time thinking about special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election.
Thursday 24 May 2018
The firefight was described by the Pentagon as an act of self-defense against a unit of pro-Syrian government forces.
Saturday 12 May 2018
Friday’s encounter was the first of its kind in just more than a year
Thursday 10 May 2018
Some dealt with race directly; others dealt with issues fraught with racial and religious baggage such as ads focused on protests over policing, the debate over a wall on the U.S. border with Mexico and relationships with the Muslim community.
Sometimes, Russian trolls also tried to fuel rallies and protests, endeavoring at one point in 2016 to pit Beyoncé fans and critics against each other in New York City.
Many of the ads, placed by Russians posing as Americans, didn't endorse a specific candidate but spread inflammatory messages on sensitive subjects such as immigration and race to amplify fault lines in American life
Tuesday 8 May 2018
Rouhani said Iran is ready to start unlimited uranium enrichment if these negotiations do not yield benefits in a couple of weeks.
The Associated Press has found evidence that the women were targeted not by jihadists but by the same Russian hacking group that intervened in the American election and exposed the emails of Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign chairman
Friday 4 May 2018
In their request on Friday to put off the arraignment, prosecutors included the extensive demands for information that the lawyers for Concord Management have set forth since they stepped forward last month.
Wednesday 2 May 2018
But Ukraine’s chief prosecutor has now halted the investigation, ostensibly to remain on Trump’s good side.
Friday 27 April 2018
“I am a lawyer, and I am an informant,” she said. “Since 2013, I have been actively communicating with the office of the Russian prosecutor general.”
Thursday 26 April 2018
“I went to Russia for a day or so... of course I stayed there”
Tuesday 24 April 2018
Manafort was raided by the FBI to look for documents relating to the Trump Tower meeting in June 2016 with Russian lobbyists, which was brokered by Donald Trump Jr.
Monday 23 April 2018
Flight records show that Trump arrived in Moscow on early Friday morning, November 8, 2013. He departed early Sunday morning, November 10.
The Russian billionaire is alleged to have conducted a range of illegal activities, including money laundering, extortion and ordering the murder of a businessman
Friday 20 April 2018
Russia’s foreign minister said Friday that the U.S. sought out and respected Moscow’s positions in Syria when it launched its air strikes last week.
Lavrov ... added that Moscow may reconsider a pledge it gave a decade ago not to provide Syria with sophisticated long-range S-300 missiles in light of the strikes.
“Six days was not an appropriate period of time to return a call” from the leader of a country like Russia
Shortly after President Donald Trump was inaugurated last year, top Republican fundraiser Elliott Broidy offered Russian gas giant Novatek a $26 million lobbying plan aimed at removing the company from a U.S. sanctions list
The case asserts that the Russian hacking campaign — combined with Trump associates’ contacts with Russia and the campaign’s public cheerleading of the hacks — amounted to an illegal conspiracy to interfere in the election
Sex workers are a running theme in the seven memos released on Thursday evening
Wednesday 18 April 2018
“There has been nobody tougher on Russia than Donald Trump,” the president said
Trump administration officials are publicly feuding over Russia sanctions.
Monday 16 April 2018
The announcement, made jointly with the United Kingdom, is the latest in a growing string of cases where Western governments have pointed a finger at Moscow for high-profile digital malfeasance
Trump conferred with his national security advisers later Sunday and told them he was upset the sanctions were being officially rolled out because he was not yet comfortable executing them
Sometime after Haley’s comments on CBS, the Trump administration notified the Russian Embassy in Washington that the sanctions were not in fact coming
Sunday 15 April 2018
For better or worse, James B. Comey's new book has forced us to talk about an allegation involving President Trump and urinating Russian prostitutes. It'd be better if we didn't dwell upon it.
Saturday 14 April 2018
...this illustrates what "the wars of the future will look like...The fog of war will not be limited to our situation rooms and battlefields."
Friday 13 April 2018
The U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki Haley, accused Russia of lying and covering up for its ally, the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad
Meanwhile, the Russian Defense Ministry on Friday presented what it said was new evidence showing that Britain had staged the chemical attack.
“We had an early warning of the strike from the Russians ... and all military bases were evacuated a few days ago,” the official said. Around 30 missiles were fired in the attack, and a third of them were shot down, the official said.
During a press briefing on Friday, Mr Lavrov said he had "irrefutable evidence" that the attack was staged as part of a "Russophobic campaign" led by one country, which he did not name.
Thursday 12 April 2018
Standing in front of a mushroom cloud, a presenter on state-run broadcaster Vesti 24 warned viewers to stock up on “fewer sweets and more water.”
Wednesday 11 April 2018
...a move that could be a bid to gain access to evidence that special counsel Robert Mueller's office gathered in preparing the case.
...the gun rights group reported receiving $2,512.85 in contributions and membership dues “from people associated with Russian addresses” or known Russian nationals living in the United States from 2015 to the present.
Trump’s goading of Moscow was an apparent response to a warning from a Russian diplomat Tuesday that Russia would shoot down any U.S. missiles fired into Syria in retaliation for Saturday’s alleged attack by the Assad regime.
Tuesday 10 April 2018
Russia’s ambassador to Lebanon said any U.S. missiles fired at Syria would be shot down and the launch sites targeted, a step that could trigger a major escalation in the Syrian war.
Monday 9 April 2018
“Russia could stop this senseless slaughter if it wanted, but it stands with the Assad regime and supports without any hesitation.”
Friday 6 April 2018
The measures take aim not only at Russians directly connected to the Kremlin but also several with links to President Trump’s campaign or his associates who have been scrutinized in special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s investigation.
The Trump administration on Friday sanctioned seven oligarchs with close ties to Russian President Vladimir Putin, including Putin’s son-in-law and businessmen with links to the 2016 U.S. presidential campaign
Wednesday 4 April 2018
The international chemical weapons watchdog on Wednesday rejected Russia's call for a joint investigation with Britain of the nerve-agent poisonings of an ex-spy and his daughter in England.
"The Kremlin's confidence is growing," he continued. "Russia has used old and new forms of aggression to undermine our open societies."
Tuesday 3 April 2018
Erdogan said Tuesday that his country’s plan to purchase Russia’s long-range missile defense system is a “done deal,” brushing aside concerns from some NATO allies.
Monday 2 April 2018
Putin aide Yury Ushakov told reporters Monday that during a March 20 phone conversation, Trump “suggested that the first meeting could be held in Washington” between the two leaders.
Sunday 1 April 2018
For an assassin to leave poison on Mr. Skripal’s door handle would require considerable knowledge of the underlying chemistry
Friday 30 March 2018
Russia said it was responding to what it called the baseless demands for scores of its own diplomats to leave a slew of mostly Western countries.
The Sarmat is a heavy ICBM intended to replace Russia’s aging, Soviet-era missiles that form the basis of its nuclear deterrent.
Thursday 29 March 2018
The move continues an ongoing escalation of tit for tat between Moscow and the West that began in early March with the alleged poisoning of a former Russian double agent on British soil with a Soviet-designed nerve agent.
Wednesday 28 March 2018
“Specialists have identified the highest concentration of the nerve agent, to date, as being on the front door of the address.”
Tuesday 27 March 2018
The coroner determined that he had died from blunt force injuries to the head and had also sustained blunt force injuries to his neck, torso, upper extremities, and lower extremities. After an 11-month investigation, a federal prosecutor announced in late 2016 that Lesin died alone in his room due to a series of drunken falls “after days of excessive consumption of alcohol.” His death was ruled an “accident”
Monday 26 March 2018
Poland, Italy, Denmark, France and Germany were among 14 European Union member nations announcing plans to expel Russians from their countries in solidarity with Britain, which previously expelled 23 Russian diplomats after the poisoning. Canada also said it would expel four.
Friday 23 March 2018
If Trump decides to act on the NSC recommendation, it is expected to be soon -- possibly early next week
The newfound unity among European Union leaders on the matter and the appointment of fierce Russia hawk John Bolton as President Donald Trump's national security advisor are potential precursors of collective Western action against Russia.
"They were not simply looking around that system and reconnoitering it ... They were placing the tools that they would have to place in order to turn off the power."
Tuesday 20 March 2018
Trump did not follow specific warnings from his national security advisers Tuesday when he congratulated Russian President Vladimir Putin on his reelection — including a section in his briefing materials in all-capital letters stating “DO NOT CONGRATULATE”
Trump called on Tuesday to congratulate President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia on his re-election, but did not raise with him the lopsided nature of his victory, Russia’s meddling in the 2016 presidential election or Moscow’s role in a nerve agent attack on a former Russian spy and his daughter living in Britain.
Monday 19 March 2018
Mr. Stamos, who plans to leave Facebook by August, had advocated more disclosure around Russian interference of the platform and some restructuring to better address the issues, but was met with resistance by colleagues
Sunday 18 March 2018
Russia’s presidential election was tainted Sunday by unprecedented pressure on voters to turn out and incidents of suspected ballot box stuffing — a barely democratic exercise that will grant Vladimir Putin another six years
Saturday 17 March 2018
The Russian Foreign Ministry said Saturday that “23 diplomatic personnel from the British Embassy in Moscow have been declared persona non grata” and have one week to leave.
Friday 16 March 2018
The Federal Election Commission has launched a preliminary investigation into whether Russian entities gave illegal contributions to the National Rifle Association that were intended to benefit the Trump campaign during the 2016 presidential election
Thursday 15 March 2018
The statement said the use of novichok “constitutes the first offensive use of a nerve agent in Europe since the second world war”
The Treasury Department on Thursday slapped new sanctions on 24 Russian entities and individuals for interfering in the 2016 election and conducting a series of damaging cyberattacks, a major step towards punishing Russia for its increasingly bellicose behavior.
The expulsions will happen “soon,” ... It was not clear how many U.K. diplomats would be involved.
Wednesday 14 March 2018
Nikolai Glushkov, a Russian exile who had links to compatriots who died in mysterious circumstances in the UK, has been found dead in his London home
Britain called an emergency session of the United Nations Security Council on Wednesday to formally accuse Russia of trying to murder a former Russian spy and his daughter on British soil with a military-grade nerve agent.
...the single biggest expulsion in 30 years
Tuesday 13 March 2018
"As soon as we get the facts straight, if we agree with them, we will condemn Russia or whoever it may be."
Britons are taking in the disquieting information that a Novichok nerve agent, a weapon invented for use against NATO troops, was released in the quiet town of Salisbury, its target a former Russian spy named Sergei V. Skripal.
"The death is currently being treated as an unexplained," police said, adding that the Metropolitan Police Counter Terrorism Command is leading the investigation as a precaution.
The threat ... was widely reported by Russia media sites such as state news agency RIA and Tass. It said Gerasimov said Russia had "reliable information" about militants preparing to falsify a government chemical attack against civilians.
Monday 12 March 2018
Tillerson on Monday called the poisoning of a former Russian spy in Britain “an egregious act” and added, “It appears that it clearly came from Russia.”
May gave the Russian government a day to offer a response, without which she said the attack would be regarded as an action “by the Russian state against the United Kingdom” and would lead to consequences.
Friday 9 March 2018
In a June 18, 2013, tweet, Trump wrote: “Do you think Putin will be going to The Miss Universe Pageant in November in Moscow — if so, will he become my new best friend?”
About 180 troops including some with chemical expertise had been sent to the city to remove ambulances and other vehicles involved in the incident and other objects
“The public should not be alarmed”
Twenty-one people were taken to hospital following the incident but apart from the Skripals only Detective Sergeant Nick Bailey, the first police officer on the scene, is still being treated. He remains in a serious condition although he is now able to talk
Wednesday 7 March 2018
Metropolitan Police counterterrorism chief Mark Rowley said Wednesday the attack on Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia on Sunday is being treated as attempted murder.
Putin praised Trump as a “balanced” man, who easily gets into the gist of various issues and listens to his interlocutor.
Tuesday 6 March 2018
Asked whether he wished he had handled the accusations about Russian interference differently ahead of the 2016 elections, McConnell said, “No, I’m perfectly comfortable with the steps that were taken back then.”
Trump said his administration is conducting a deep study and will have strong suggestions on protecting the midterms and beyond.
The plane was not fired upon, the ministry says, and preliminary data suggests a technical malfunction could have caused the crash.
Monday 5 March 2018
Skripal, 66, and his 33-year-old daughter were exposed to what police said was an unknown substance in the city of Salisbury.
Steele’s memo said Russia used “unspecified channels” to request that Trump choose a secretary of State who would remove “Ukraine-related sanctions,” according to the report.
A Belarusian escort with close ties to a powerful Russian oligarch said from behind bars in Bangkok on Monday that she had more than 16 hours of audio recordings that could help shed light on Russian meddling in United States elections.
The Russian muscle-flexing and the American hand-wringing captured a strategic vacuum that now envelops Washington as Mr. Putin pursues what he views as a complementary arsenal of new-generation nuclear and cyberweapons.
Sunday 4 March 2018
As a result, not one of the 23 analysts working in the department’s Global Engagement Center ... speaks Russian, and a department hiring freeze has hindered efforts to recruit the computer experts needed to track the Russian efforts.
Saturday 3 March 2018
Putin said ... that he cannot know whether Russian law was violated and would need to "first see what they've done."
Friday 2 March 2018
U.S. officials recognize that the advanced missile technologies Russia and China are developing will probably end up in the arsenals of other countries in the future, meaning the policy must decide how to address them anyway.
Thursday 1 March 2018
Russian politician Alexander Torshin claimed his ties to the National Rifle Association provided him access to Donald Trump
Deploying emotional language and an animation of a cruise missile streaking toward North America, Russian President Vladimir Putin used an annual speech to his nation on Thursday to claim Russia was developing new nuclear weapons that he said could overcome any U.S. missile defenses.
Monday 26 February 2018
There was a time, not so long ago, when a Chinese leader setting himself up as ruler for life would have stirred international condemnation for bucking the global trend toward greater democracy. Now, such an action seems fully in keeping with moves by many countries in the other direction.
Thursday 22 February 2018
In intercepted communications in late January, the oligarch, Yevgeniy Prigozhin, told a senior Syrian official that he had “secured permission” from an unspecified Russian minister to move forward with a “fast and strong” initiative that would take place in early February.
The recent incident took place on the night of Feb. 7-8, when a headquarters base of U.S. troops and their Syrian allies, located near a strategic oil field several miles east of the river and close to the town of Deir al-Zour, was attacked by 300 to 500 “pro-regime” forces.
Wednesday 21 February 2018
The social-media service Twitter is believed to have suspended thousands of accounts for being automated bots or for other policy violations, drawing outcry from fringe conservative media figures who lost followers in the move.
Tuesday 20 February 2018
Moscow and American officials were quick to clarify that those killed in the Feb. 7 incident were private Russian mercenaries and there was no risk of “direct conflict between United States and Russian forces.”
Monday 19 February 2018
One hour after news broke about the school shooting in Florida last week, Twitter accounts suspected of having links to Russia released hundreds of posts taking up the gun control debate.
Sunday 18 February 2018
...sending off a stream of tweets attacking the FBI, CNN, the Democratic Party, his own national security adviser, former President Barack Obama and the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee.
He did not criticize Russia, or voice concern over Vladimir Putin's attempts to undermine U.S. elections.
Saturday 17 February 2018
“As you can see with FBI indictment, the evidence is incontrovertible and available in the public domain”
The social network, more than any other technology tool, was singled out on Friday by the Justice Department when prosecutors charged 13 Russians and three companies for executing a scheme to subvert the 2016 election and support Donald J. Trump’s presidential campaign.
Tuesday 13 February 2018
Last week, a 25-minute video published by Russian opposition activist Alexei Navalny alleging a new link between the Kremlin and the Trump campaign made headlines around the world. Now the Russian government wants it scrubbed from the internet
“There should be no doubt that Russia perceives its past efforts as successful and views the 2018 U.S. midterm elections as a potential target for Russian influence operations,” said Dan Coats, the director of national intelligence.
Sunday 11 February 2018
"In the context of the President's then-precarious financial position, I believe that the Palm Beach property sale warrants further scrutiny"
Thursday 8 February 2018
Navalny published a video Thursday in which he accuses one of Russia’s richest men of bribing a top government official by entertaining him on his yacht with several women described as escorts.
Deripaska has been linked to former Donald Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort, a key figure in U.S. special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s probe into Russia’s meddling in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
U.S. forces targeted the pro-government troops with airstrikes and artillery after they launched an attack against a base belonging to the U.S. backed Syrian Democratic Forces in the eastern province of Deir al-Zour
Monday 29 January 2018
A Russian Su-27 jet performed an unsafe intercept of a US Navy surveillance plane while it was flying in international airspace over the Black Sea Monday
The administration was required by law to name the companies and individuals Monday, and possibly sanction them under a 2016 law meant to punish Russia for its interference in the 2016 US election, as well as its human rights violations, annexation of Crimea and ongoing military operations in eastern Ukraine.
Sunday 28 January 2018
The president has until Monday to implement stiff penalties targeting the Kremlin — and lawmakers aren’t sure he’ll comply on time.
Friday 26 January 2018
The list “has caused more concern among wealthy Russians in Moscow, London and Geneva than there has been since sanctions were imposed on Russia post-Ukraine”
Intelligence hackers from Dutch AIVD (General Intelligence and Security Service) had penetrated the Cozy Bear computer servers as well as a security camera at the entrance of their working space, located in a university building adjacent to the Red Square in Moscow.
Wednesday 10 January 2018
A series of mysterious attacks against the main Russian military base in Syria, including one conducted by a swarm of armed miniature drones, has exposed Russia’s continued vulnerability in the country
Friday 29 December 2017
Trump went on to remind the reporters of his "absolute right" to do as he wishes with the Justice Department, alluding to earlier speculation that he could fire Mueller and close down the Russia probe.
Tuesday 26 December 2017
The ship traffic came days after the head of the British military warned in an interview of the threat of Russian submarine activity near the sensitive undersea data cables that carry Internet traffic between North America and Europe.
But it’s not as simple as promoting President Trump and the GOP. Most experts believe Vladimir Putin’s motives are more complex than that, and involve sowing discord and confusion that destabilizes our system. The danger becomes particularly acute during election season.
Monday 25 December 2017
And yet, the United States has failed to establish deterrence in the aftermath of Russia’s interference in the 2016 election. We know we failed because Russia continues to aggressively employ the most significant aspect of its 2016 tool kit: the use of social media as a platform to disseminate propaganda designed to weaken our nation.
Friday 22 December 2017
“You have to remember Putin’s background. He’s a KGB officer. That’s what they do. They recruit assets. And I think some of that experience and instincts of Putin has come into play here in his managing of a pretty important account for him, if I could use that term, with our president.”
Tuesday 12 December 2017
Sunday 3 December 2017
Russia, he wrote, was “quietly but actively seeking a dialogue with the U.S.” and would attempt to use the N.R.A.’s annual convention in Louisville, Ky., to make “‘first contact.’”
Thursday 30 November 2017
By insinuating themselves into different niche online dialogues during the 2016 presidential race and pushing the conversational boundaries, the Russian trolls signaled to others in the conversation that it was acceptable to make more extreme statements.
Wednesday 29 November 2017
Tuesday 28 November 2017
In September, the officer and his wife reported, according to one source familiar with the incident, what may have been at least one acoustic attack similar to those experienced by the diplomats in Havana.
Saturday 25 November 2017
"According to the text of the law, media that receive financial assistance from foreign states or organizations can be recognized as foreign agents, while the decision on which outlets will be classified as 'foreign agents' will be taken by the Ministry of Justice."
Friday 24 November 2017
Wednesday 22 November 2017
Their message has been the same: If America’s friends in the region aspire for enhanced security, they’d best not wait for the White House to provide it. And if recent events offer any indication, the message has been received loud and clear.
Aside from Fox News, no network worked as hard as Rossiya, as Russian state TV is called, to boost Donald Trump and denigrate Hillary Clinton.
Thursday 16 November 2017
The disclosures came just two days after Prime Minister Theresa May of Britain delivered a speech accusing Russia of using cyberattacks and online propaganda to “undermine free societies” and “sow discord in the West.”
Sunday 12 November 2017
Saturday 11 November 2017
It’s remarkable enough that Trump openly admitted he just believed whatever Putin told him. It’s even more startling when you realize that in January, the FBI, CIA, and NSA clearly assessed that Russia did interfere in the election — and that Putin was behind it.
“No,” Putin's press secretary Dmitri Peskov told CNN when asked, “as far as you know, did the two leaders discuss meddling?"
“Every time he sees me he says, ‘I didn’t do that,’ and I really believe that when he tells me that, he means it,” Mr. Trump said of Mr. Putin. “I think he is very insulted by it, which is not a good thing for our country.”
"President Trump and President Putin today, meeting on the margins of the APEC conference in Da Nang, Vietnam, confirmed their determination to defeat ISIS in Syria"
Friday 10 November 2017
Flynn’s work for Turkey has been somewhat buried amid the Russia revelations, which is unfortunate because it’s fairly outrageous.
Russia plans new measures to restrict U.S. media working here after a Russian English-language TV channel said it was pressured into registering as a foreign agent in America
When he did mention China by name, it was to rehash his “excellent trip” to the country
Trump and ... Putin will not have a formal sit-down meeting at the summit, putting to rest much speculation on the topic... “in terms of a scheduled, formal meeting, there’s not one on the calendar and we don’t anticipate that there will be one.”
Tuesday 7 November 2017
“If we get China, we get Russia,” Trump said. “We think that things will happen and they could happen very quickly.”
Monday 6 November 2017
The open hearing, tentatively scheduled for Nov. 14, is part of the committee’s regular oversight of the Justice Department, but Russia appears almost certain to be a topic.
“Looking ahead, if we come to power, we can return to this issue and think what to do about it”
Sunday 5 November 2017
Wilbur Ross, the commerce secretary, retained investments in a shipping firm with business ties to Russian President Vladimir V. Putin’s inner circle.
In addition to Mr. Ross, the files contain references to other members of the Trump administration, including Gary D. Cohn ... and Secretary of State Rex W. Tillerson... There is no evidence of illegality in any of their dealings.
The so-called Paradise Papers have revealed secrets of politicians worldwide, including new links between the Trump administration and Russia.
Saturday 4 November 2017
“I think it’s expected we’ll meet with Putin, yeah. We want Putin’s help on North Korea, and we’ll be meeting with a lot of different leaders,” Trump told reporters
Friday 3 November 2017
Guccifer 2.0 has denied having any links to Russia. But digital fingerprints were left on the hacks that led the US intelligence community ... to conclude that the cyberattacks were largely, if not entirely, carried out by two Russian intelligence groups.
Wednesday 1 November 2017
Russian actors organized both anti-Islam and pro-Islam protests in the same location at the same time on May 21, 2016, using separate Facebook pages operated from a so-called troll farm in St. Petersburg
Monday 30 October 2017
Two TU-95 aircraft, otherwise known as 'Russian Bear' bombers, skirted the islands of Hoshu and Hokkaido before flying back across the Sea of Japan.
America dispatched its own B-2 nuclear bomber over the Pacific on Saturday
James Clapper ... wants you to know that no matter how much Trump rants about the “Russia hoax,” the 2016 hacking was not only real and aimed at electing Trump but constituted a major victory for a dangerous foreign adversary.
Sunday 29 October 2017
Russia is effectively taking China’s place as Venezuela’s principal banker. While President Hugo Chávez was in power, China lent Venezuela tens of billions of dollars for projects to be paid for with oil. But China quietly stopped making new loans, leaving Russia to fill the void.
Friday 27 October 2017
...the Russian government really, really hates the Magnitsky sanctions, and it hates them with disproportionate fury.
The coordination between the Trump Tower visitor and the Russian prosecutor general undercuts Ms. Veselnitskaya’s account that she was a purely independent actor
Thursday 26 October 2017
The list appeared to be an attempt to mollify critics ... who said that the administration had not moved quickly enough to punish a key American adversary
Wednesday 25 October 2017
“Experts have determined without a doubt that there is absolutely no truth to allegations that Russian interference,” read the website that was reportedly registered last night and began rapidly publishing content for the very first time less than 10 minutes ago.
Monday 23 October 2017
The administration has since blown past an October 1 deadline to implement the sanctions. Lawmakers are now searching for answers as to whether the president is even planning to follow the law that they passed and he signed.
But the administration missed the October 1 deadline to “issue regulations or other guidance” to indicate who from Russia’s defense and intelligence sectors ... would be targeted by the new sanctions.
Tuesday 17 October 2017
Grammatical and spelling glitches were everywhere: “In Love With Texas Shape,” “State Fair of Texas – Has You Already Visited?,” “Always Be Ready for a Texas Size,” “No Hypoclintos in the God Blessed Texas.”
Wednesday 11 October 2017
...the program searched for terms as broad as “top secret,” which may be written on classified government documents, as well as the classified code names of U.S. government programs
Monday 9 October 2017
...one of the most powerful weapons that Russian agents used to reshape American politics was the anger, passion and misinformation that real Americans were broadcasting across social media platforms.
Sunday 8 October 2017
Friday 6 October 2017
Generating anti-Muslim sentiment in the US was one of the goals of the Russian campaign.
Thursday 5 October 2017
Russian hackers obtained classified documents that a National Security Agency employee had taken and stored on his home computer.
Monday 2 October 2017
The Russian review of ArcSight’s source code, the closely guarded internal instructions of the software, was part of HPE’s effort to win the certification required to sell the product to Russia’s public sector
Sunday 1 October 2017
Western officials said the military maneuvers, known as Zapad, Russian for “west,” far exceeded in scope and scale what Moscow had said it would conduct, and tracked more closely to what American intelligence officials suspected would unfold, based on Russian troop buildups in August.
Monday 25 September 2017
The Russian campaign — taking advantage of Facebook’s ability to send contrary messages to different groups of users based on their political and demographic characteristics — also sought to sow discord among religious groups.
Thursday 14 September 2017
The legislation imposes sanctions “on any person that conducts a significant transaction with the Russian Federation’s defense or intelligence sectors”
He went on to claim that Sputnik’s influence on right-wing, pro-Trump, new websites is pervasive: “Many of the most popular articles about things like WikiLeaks and pizzagate and other conspiracy theories were prominently featured on the Sputnik website”
Russia’s military fired seven cruise missiles Thursday at Islamic State targets in the eastern Syrian province of Deir el-Zour
Wednesday 13 September 2017
...citing suspected ties between executives at the firm and Russian intelligence agencies.
Starting on Thursday, however, the fictional state, Veishnoriya, a distillation of the Kremlin’s darkest fears about the West, becomes the target of the combined military might of Russia and its ally Belarus.
The nation was invented to provide an enemy to confront during a six-day joint military exercise that is expected to be the biggest display of Russian military power since the end of the Cold War a quarter-century ago.
Tuesday 12 September 2017
The proposal ... called for the wholesale restoration of diplomatic, military and intelligence channels severed between the two countries after Russia’s military interventions in Ukraine and Syria.
Monday 11 September 2017
A Facebook spokesperson confirmed ... that the social-media giant “shut down several promoted events as part of the takedown we described last week.”
U.S. "intelligence missed it when Russian intelligence stole the president of the United States."
Russian smugglers are scurrying to the aid of North Korea with shipments of petroleum and other vital supplies that could help that country weather harsh new economic sanctions
Saturday 9 September 2017
While Trump rails against U.S.-born children of undocumented immigrants, his Florida properties have become a playground for birth tourists from Russia’s upper crust.
Friday 8 September 2017
Because Syrian troops are now in control of the area, the U.S.-led coalition against the Islamic State agreed to a Russian request to halt the surveillance, in the interests of deconflicting the rival Russian- and U.S.-backed efforts to defeat the militants
Thursday 7 September 2017
The same morning, “Katherine Fulton” also began promoting DCLeaks in the same awkward English Mr. Redick used. “Hey truth seekers!” she wrote. “Who can tell me who are #DCLeaks? Some kind of Wikileaks? You should visit their website”
But out of the spotlight, he appears to be crafting a broad strategy aimed at working with China to resolve the North Korea crisis and with Russia to stabilize Syria and Ukraine.
Wednesday 6 September 2017
Facebook officials reported that they traced the ad sales, totaling $100,000, to a Russian “troll farm” with a history of pushing pro-Kremlin propaganda
Tuesday 5 September 2017
"America is really a great nation and the Americans are a great people if they can endure so many people with such a low level of political culture."
...he said Mr Trump was "not my bride, and I'm not his groom."
Speaking on Russia-24, Nikita Isaev, leader of the far-right New Russia Movement, said the compromising material should be released in retaliation over the closure of several Russian diplomatic compounds across the US.
Saturday 2 September 2017
A day earlier, black smoke was seen billowing from the chimney at the consulate as the Russians rushed to meet the Saturday deadline
Friday 1 September 2017
The assaults on the vast back-end election apparatus — voter-registration operations, state and local election databases, e-poll books and other equipment — have received far less attention than other aspects of the Russian interference
Thursday 31 August 2017
Tillerson has taken steps toward spending tens of millions of dollars to counter propaganda by Islamist extremists and governments such as Russia.
...the State Department has ordered the Russian government to close its consulate general in San Francisco, a chancery annex in Washington, D.C., and a consular annex in New York City.
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has said that relations are at their worst point since the Cold War and that national security demands that the United States try to improve them
The call followed a declaration earlier Wednesday from President Donald Trump that “the U.S. has been talking to North Korea, and paying them extortion money, for 25 years. Talking is not the answer!”
Wednesday 30 August 2017
Peskov said it was one of many emails the Kremlin press office gets — since its email address is available online — and that the Kremlin did not reply to it.
Sunday 27 August 2017
...the details of the deal ... provide evidence that Trump’s business was actively pursuing significant commercial interests in Russia at the same time he was campaigning to be president — and in a position to determine U.S.-Russia relations.
Thursday 24 August 2017
Russia's ambassador to Sudan was found dead Wednesday in Khartoum. That's the seventh Russian diplomat to have died since November last year
Tuesday 22 August 2017
For Richard Spencer, ... the Kremlin stands as the “most powerful white power in the world.”
The new sanctions affect six individuals and 10 organizations with financial ties to Pyongyang’s weapons program.
Monday 21 August 2017
“What would you do if we asked you to write something that wasn’t true?”
The U.S. embassy in Russia says it will suspend issuing nonimmigrant visas in Moscow for eight days and will stop issuing visas at its consulates elsewhere in Russia in response to the Russian decision to cap embassy staff.
Sunday 20 August 2017
Monday 14 August 2017
North Korea’s success ... was made possible by black-market purchases of powerful rocket engines probably from a Ukrainian factory with historical ties to Russia’s missile program
Friday 11 August 2017
The list of people he has been willing, even eager, to publicly attack includes not just Mitch McConnell, his latest target, but Jeff Sessions, Chuck Schumer, Paul D. Ryan, John McCain, Hillary Clinton, Bill Clinton and Barack Obama.
And don’t forget James B. Comey, Robert S. Mueller III, Andrew G. McCabe, Rod J. Rosenstein, John D. Podesta, Nancy Pelosi, Lisa Murkowski, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Rosie O’Donnell, Meryl Streep, the mayor of London and the cast of “Saturday Night Live.”
But for all of that feistiness ... there is one person who is definitely not on Mr. Trump’s target list: President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia.
Thursday 10 August 2017
"I want to thank him because we're trying to cut down our payroll and as far as I'm concerned I'm very thankful that he let go of a large number of people because now we have a smaller payroll."
Wednesday 9 August 2017
A 1992 agreement known as the Treaty on Open Skies allows each country to conduct surveillance flights over the other's territory
Monday 7 August 2017
Russian-linked bots and trolls have caused a surge in use of the hashtag #ResignPaulRyan on Twitter over the last 48 hours
The U.S. has yet to decide on what retaliatory steps it would take, Tillerson said, only that those steps would be taken by Sept. 1.
Thursday 3 August 2017
"But the fact is we are both in a little bit of a political bind because I have to have Mexico pay for the wall – I have to."
"This is going to kill me. I am the world’s greatest person that does not want to let people into the country."
"I spoke to Putin, Merkel, Abe of Japan, to France today, and this was my most unpleasant call"
"What is the thing with boats? Why do you discriminate against boats?"
"I have had it. I have been making these calls all day and this is the most unpleasant call all day. Putin was a pleasant call. This is ridiculous."
Wednesday 2 August 2017
Trump objected to several provisions that he argued intruded into his constitutional powers to conduct foreign affairs.
Then along came Vladimir Putin... He promised to make Russia great again
The president issued two statements outlining his concerns with the bill, which he called “seriously flawed,” primarily because it limits his ability to negotiate sanctions without congressional approval.
Tillerson aide R.C. Hammond suggested the money is unwelcome because any extra funding for programs to counter Russian media influence would anger Moscow
Tuesday 1 August 2017
...even though he has “concerns” about the measure
Monday 31 July 2017
Russia is preparing to send as many as 100,000 troops to the eastern edge of NATO territory at the end of the summer
Sunday 30 July 2017
...he came bearing a message from the president: “Russia’s destabilizing activities, its support for rogue regimes, its activities in Ukraine, are unacceptable.”
Although the reduction in American diplomatic staff had been announced on Friday, ... the president’s statement was the first to confirm the large number of embassy personnel involved.
Friday 28 July 2017
Russia took its first steps on Friday to retaliate against proposed American sanctions for Moscow’s suspected meddling in last year’s election
Thursday 27 July 2017
The Senate on Thursday approved sweeping sanctions against Russia, forcing President Trump to decide whether to accept a tougher line against Moscow or issue a politically explosive veto
Wednesday 26 July 2017
Moscow defends North Korea in a way that’s designed to get both the Russian public and the international community to see Russia as a great power.
Tuesday 25 July 2017
NATO member Turkey said in April it had reached a "final stage" in talks to procure the air missile defense system. Turkey will not be able to integrate the Russian S-400 into the NATO system.
The 419-3 vote brings President Trump one step closer to a choice he has strained to avoid: whether to sign legislation embraced by Republicans in both the House and the Senate that undercuts his attempts to ratchet down tensions with Moscow, or to veto the bill even as Russia-related scandal consumes his administration.
Sunday 23 July 2017
Now it is clear that those sanctions not only are staying in place, but are about to be modestly expanded — exactly the outcome the two presidents sought to avoid.
But when Mr. Trump met Mr. Putin in Hamburg, Germany, two weeks ago ... he emerged to tell his aides that the Russian president had offered a compelling rejoinder: Moscow’s cyberoperators are so good at covert computer-network operations that if they had dipped into the Democratic National Committee’s systems, they would not have been caught.
Saturday 22 July 2017
The new legislation sharply limits the president’s ability to suspend or terminate the sanctions — a remarkable handcuffing by a Republican-led Congress six months into Mr. Trump’s tenure.
Thursday 20 July 2017
“There’s a pretty clear and easy answer to this and it’s 'yes,'” Thomas Bossert said when asked whether the Russians worked to manipulate the U.S. election
Trump’s persistent overtures toward Russia are placing him increasingly at odds with his national security and foreign policy advisers, who have long urged a more cautious approach to dealing with the foreign adversary.
Wednesday 19 July 2017
With the end of the CIA program, U.S. involvement in Syria now consists of a vigorous air campaign against the Islamic State and a Pentagon-run train-and-equip program
Tuesday 18 July 2017
The hourlong conversation in Hamburg, Germany, took place at a private dinner among world leaders at a concert hall on the banks of the Elbe River ... with only a Kremlin interpreter present to listen to the exchange.
Thursday 13 July 2017
“I said to him, ‘Were you involved in the meddling with the election?’” Mr. Trump recalled. “He said, ‘Absolutely not. I was not involved.’ He was very strong on it. I then said to him, in a totally different way, ‘Were you involved with the meddling?’ He said, ‘I was not — absolutely not.’”
Mr. Trump conceded that he did not ask Mr. Putin a question about the election that he wanted to ask: “Who were you really for? Because I can’t believe that he would have been for me. Me. Strong military, strong borders — he doesn’t care about borders — but strong military. Tremendous.”
He also said the wall would have to be transparent, using an offbeat example to explain why. “When they throw large sacks of drugs over, and if you have people on the other side of the wall, you don’t see them — they hit you on the head with 60 pounds of stuff? It’s over,” he said. “As crazy as that sounds, you need transparency through that wall.”
Wednesday 12 July 2017
"We write with some concern that the two events may be connected — and that the Department may have settled the case at a loss for the United States in order to obscure the underlying facts."
Sunday 9 July 2017
When he was first asked about the meeting on Saturday, Donald Trump Jr. said that it was primarily about adoptions and mentioned nothing about Mrs. Clinton.
Trump's pledge to partner with Putin on cybersecurity drew swift and stern denunciations from both Democratic and Republican officials, who described the U.S. president as dangerously naive for trusting his Russian counterpart.
“I have been very clear in my discussions with Russian leadership, on more than one occasion, that it is necessary for Russia to take the first steps to de-escalate the situation in the eastern part of Ukraine”
Saturday 8 July 2017
"These are the ones. You're right about that,” Mr Trump responded.
Trump on Saturday called his highly-anticipated meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin at the G-20 summit "tremendous,"
The president, however, declined to offer any clarity on the differing accounts from the U.S. and Russia that have since come out of the two-hour long meeting.
Friday 7 July 2017
“It’s an honor to be with you,” President Trump told Russian President Vladimir Putin Friday as they met for the first time.
The agreement came after months of negotiations among the three countries.
In very concrete terms, through speech and action, the president signaled a willingness to align the United States with Vladimir Putin’s worldview, and took steps to advance this realignment. He endorsed, nearly in its totality, the narrative the Russian leader has worked so meticulously to construct.
...the two presidents agreed not to meddle in “each other’s” domestic affairs—equating American activities to promote democracy with Russian aggression aimed at undermining it, in an incalculable PR victory for the Kremlin.
Thursday 6 July 2017
The mixed messages surprised Russia experts in Washington, who warned that it weakens Trump’s position both with his European counterparts ... and with Putin.
"I think it could very well have been Russia, but I think it could well have been other countries. I won’t be specific," Trump said
Tuesday 4 July 2017
Now nearly six months into his presidency, Trump is set to finally meet Putin at a summit this week in Hamburg
Monday 3 July 2017
“If you watch Russian TV on any given day, “ says Anton, 70 percent of it is global affairs, much from the U.S. “You’d think you live in the U.S., there’s so much coverage,” he says. And, since relatively few Russians travel abroad, “the coverage has credibility—which is not true about domestic affairs. And that coverage is devoted to a single theme: the model of Western liberal democracy is broken.”
Friday 30 June 2017
Sputnik was launched by Rossiya Segodnya, a Russian state-run news service, in 2014 and has been accused in the U.S. of being a propaganda tool of the Kremlin.
Wednesday 28 June 2017
Republican voters had long held a healthy distrust of Putin, but Trump’s persistent affinity for Moscow and other Republican leaders’ silence are changing Republican voters’ minds
Friday 23 June 2017
The intelligence captured Putin’s specific instructions on the operation’s audacious objectives — defeat or at least damage the Democratic nominee, Hillary Clinton, and help elect her opponent, Donald Trump.
Thursday 22 June 2017
Wednesday 21 June 2017
The Obama administration feared that acknowledging Russian meddling in the 2016 election would reveal too much about intelligence gathering and be interpreted as “taking sides” in the race
Monday 19 June 2017
...threatening to target aircraft flown by the United States and its allies over Syria.
Sunday 18 June 2017
On Wednesday, almost 200 Democratic members of Congress filed a federal lawsuit asserting that Mr. Trump’s business activities — including his intellectual property rights abroad — violate the Constitution’s ban on a president’s accepting gifts from foreign powers.
Saturday 17 June 2017
Senate Democrats fear the White House may go overboard in preserving its power to talk to Russia and seek to defang the sanctions bill
Thursday 15 June 2017
“If Comey will be under the threat of political persecution, we are ready to accept him here,” Putin said
Monday 12 June 2017
"By codifying existing sanctions and requiring congressional review of any decision to weaken or lift them, we are ensuring that the United States continues to punish President (Vladimir) Putin for his reckless and destabilizing actions"
Shouting “We demand answers,” and “Stop lying and stealing,” tens of thousands of protesters turned out Monday across Russia in a nationwide anti-corruption rally
Wednesday 7 June 2017
...researchers at the Atlantic Council, a think tank, excavated the root of one such fake story, involving an incident in the Black Sea in which a Russian warplane repeatedly buzzed a United States Navy destroyer, the Donald Cook.
Sunday 4 June 2017
Vnesheconombank, or VEB, is no normal bank. It is wholly owned by the Russian state. It is intertwined with Russian intelligence. And the Russian prime minister is, by law, the chairman of its supervisory board.
“Do you think we’re gathering compromising information on all of them right now or something? Are you all — have you all lost your senses over there?”
Friday 2 June 2017
Trump’s administration moved quickly to try and lift economic sanctions on Russia and other punishments ... as soon as it took office in January
Thursday 1 June 2017
Putin of Russia denied any state role on Thursday but said that “patriotically minded” private Russian hackers could have been involved.
Wednesday 31 May 2017
...that its officials were ejected from in late December as punishment for Moscow’s interference in the 2016 presidential election.
Tuesday 30 May 2017
President Trump has repeatedly lashed out at Germany in recent weeks
Monday 29 May 2017
Macron is the first Western leader to speak to Putin after the Group of Seven summit over the weekend, where relations with Russia were a key topic.
Thursday 25 May 2017
Researchers have discovered an extensive, international hacking campaign that steals documents from its targets, carefully modifies them and repackages them as disinformation aimed at undermining civil society and democratic institutions
Friday 19 May 2017
Officials cautioned, however, that the Russians might have exaggerated their sway with Trump's team during those conversations.
“I just fired the head of the F.B.I. He was crazy, a real nut job,” Mr. Trump said
Wednesday 17 May 2017
But the tactic may have more to about attempts to sow further chaos in Washington than assuage suspicions about the talks.
Tuesday 16 May 2017
“I think that this was a serious compromise situation, that the Russians had real leverage. He also had lied to the vice president of the United States,” Yates said
Trump's tweets undercut his administration's frantic effort Monday night to contain the damaging report.
Monday 15 May 2017
The information the president relayed had been provided by a U.S. partner through an intelligence-sharing arrangement considered so sensitive that details have been withheld from allies and tightly restricted even within the U.S. government
Saturday 13 May 2017
"the missile impacting so close to Russian soil – in fact, closer to Russia than to Japan – the President cannot imagine that Russia is pleased."
Thursday 11 May 2017
"They tricked us," an angry White House official said. "That's the problem with the Russians -- they lie," the official added.
Wednesday 10 May 2017
The result was a public relations coup of sorts for Russia and Mr. Lavrov in particular
The cozy meeting between President Trump and Russia’s foreign minister came at Vladimir Putin’s insistence.
Only hours after dismissing James B. Comey as director of the F.B.I., amid an investigation into the Trump campaign’s contacts with Russian officials, the president is scheduled to see Russia’s foreign minister, Sergey V. Lavrov, at the White House.
Wednesday 3 May 2017
"Their purpose was to sow discontent and mistrust in our elections. They wanted us to be at each others' throat when it was over"
Tuesday 2 May 2017
"I did win 3 million more votes than my opponent" in the popular vote.
Friday 21 April 2017
The decision ... was another sign that President Trump has been unwilling or unable to improve relations with the Kremlin early in his term, after pledging as a candidate that he would seek a thaw.
Wednesday 19 April 2017
The proposal is now before the Trump administration at a delicate time in Russian-American relations
Sunday 16 April 2017
You can’t spend more than a year attacking the credibility of the “dishonest media” and then expect to use its journalism as support for your position during an international crisis — at least not with any success.
Thursday 13 April 2017
For 1 hour and 43 minutes, the State Department allowed Russia's version of events to go unchecked. It put Russia in control by not communicating with reporters more frequently.
Wednesday 12 April 2017
“There is a low level of trust between our two countries,” Tillerson told reporters, in one of Wednesday’s biggest understatements.
At the same time, Mr. Trump embraced NATO — a military alliance he had previously derided as obsolete — as an effective and vital force for peace and security
"One could say that the level of trust on a working level, especially on the military level, has not improved, but rather has deteriorated."
Tuesday 11 April 2017
Russia can be a part of the discussions “and play an important role,” Mr. Tillerson said
Sunday 9 April 2017
...the overall tone of suspicion and condemnation of Russia’s actions in Syria indicated that Mr. Trump’s top national security advisers were nudging him back to a more traditional Russia policy.
Saturday 8 April 2017
Russian forces coordinate all aspects of Syrian air power and airstrikes.
Friday 7 April 2017
“If we learn that any remnants of this scandal remain after this attack, I will not hesitate to order further strikes.”
In addition to suspending the pact to coordinate air operations over Syria, an accord that was meant to prevent accidental encounters between the two militaries, Russia also said it would bolster Syria’s air defense systems
Thursday 6 April 2017
If U.S. aircraft were shot down or forced to fire back at the Syrian and Russian radar, the United States could get pulled into the middle of Syria’s messy civil war.
According to both U.S. military officials, the current proposal would likely result in Russian military deaths and mark a drastic escalation of U.S. force in Syria.
Monday 3 April 2017
...the explosion was caused by “an unidentified explosive device” that was detonated in one of the cars as the train traveled from Sennaya Ploshchad station
Sunday 2 April 2017
An Economist-YouGov poll in December found that while only 9 percent of Trump voters had a favorable view of Obama, 35 percent had a favorable view of Putin.
Saturday 1 April 2017
“To arrange a call from a Russian diplomat to your political opponent, press 1,” the video says, first in Russian, and then in English. Press 2 “to use the services of Russian hackers,” and 3 “to request election interference.”
Tuesday 28 March 2017
Monday 27 March 2017
Friday 24 March 2017
Among the recent deaths were five Russian diplomats. Some of the deaths appeared natural and governments have ruled out foul play. In some cases, though, questions remain.
Thursday 23 March 2017
Wednesday 22 March 2017
Manafort was asked to resign from the Trump campaign in August, after an AP report revealed that he had run a secret lobbying campaign in Washington on the behalf of Ukraine’s pro-Russia ruling party.
Friday 17 March 2017
It's not exactly a complicated tactic — any grade-schooler can master the "yeah-well-you-suck-too-so-there" defense.
Friday 10 March 2017
"Ambassador Churkin's diplomatic immunity survives his death."
Wednesday 8 March 2017
...it's true that Trump's cabinet of robber-barons has lots of dealings with Russians, but that's because every billionaire is in bed with every autocrat
Sunday 5 March 2017
Both leaders want a compliant press and are willing to take action toward getting it — some, of course, more extreme than others.
Friday 3 March 2017
"@realDonaldTrump doesn't know difference between official mtg photographed by press & closed secret mtg his AG lied about under oath"
“Happily talk re: my contact w Mr. Putin & his associates, took place in ’03 in full view of press & public under oath. Would you &your team?”
Thursday 2 March 2017
Lavrov went on to say he was deeply concerned that Trump’s impeachment would occur well before the president could cause the amount of damage to America that the Kremlin had originally intended.
No one he has ever met or talked to seems to remember him. Not Michael Flynn. Not Attorney General Jeff Sessions. No one.
Wednesday 1 March 2017
When Sessions spoke with Kislyak in July and September, the senator was a senior member of the influential Armed Services Committee as well as one of Trump’s top foreign policy advisers.
Friday 24 February 2017
Monday 20 February 2017
Among its preliminary conclusions is that the new American leader is a risk-taker who can be naïve
Sunday 19 February 2017
While it is unclear if the White House will take the proposal seriously, the diplomatic freelancing has infuriated Ukrainian officials.
Thursday 16 February 2017
Mr. Johnson was heard to ask: “Are we still being recorded?” To which Mr. Tillerson, whose two-week tenure has not included a single news conference, press availability or routine briefing, replied, “They never give up.”
Wednesday 15 February 2017
During the campaign, President Trump had suggested that such incidents show “how low we’ve gone that they can toy with us like that.”
Tuesday 14 February 2017
The Obama administration had sought to persuade the Russians to correct the violation while the missile was still in the test phase. Instead, the Russians have moved ahead with the system, deploying a fully operational unit.
Dec. 2015 — Flynn took a paid trip to Russia and appeared at a gala for RT, the state-run TV station, where he dined with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Flynn was often perceived as Donald Trump's key contact with Moscow.
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said Monday he has earned U.S. President Donald Trump’s backing in seeking closer ties with Russia in a bid to resolve a long-standing territorial row over islands off Hokkaido that Japan wants returned.
Monday 13 February 2017
Saturday 11 February 2017
We gave Putin a chance in Russia, and it was the last free election we ever had. It’s far better to act and later admit you overreacted than to do nothing until it’s impossible to act.
Thursday 9 February 2017
He then told Putin it was one of a number of bad deals negotiated by former President Barack Obama and that it favored Russia, before launching into a conversation about his own popularity
Tuesday 7 February 2017
Sunday 5 February 2017
"There are a lot of killers. We've got a lot of killers. What do you think? Our country's so innocent?"
Thursday 2 February 2017
“It’s clear that politics have prevented this committee from being willing or able to do the necessary objective and nonpartisan oversight on the Russian attack”
The FSB was the only Russian intelligence entity named in the amendment announced Thursday, leaving much of the emergency action taken by Mr Obama intact.
Ukraine and NATO accuse Russia of providing troops and weapons to support separatist rebels in the country's east in a conflict that has killed 10,000 people since April 2014. Moscow denies that.
Tuesday 31 January 2017
“In early December, FSB Colonel Sergei Mikhailov, who was responsible for cyberwars and cyberattacks… was arrested by the FSB; yes, with a bag over his head,” he said.
Using artillery, tanks and rockets, combined Russian-separatist forces attacked Ukrainian forces along the front lines in eastern Ukraine on Sunday and early Monday morning, highlighting once again that the February 2015 ceasefire has failed.
Saturday 28 January 2017
However, relations between Trump and his team and Russia have been under scrutiny following allegations that Moscow meddled in the US election last year.
Friday 27 January 2017
The death of Erovinkin has prompted speculation it is linked to Mr Steele’s explosive dossier, which was made public earlier this month.
A dossier with unverified claims about President Donald Trump's ties to Russia...
Wednesday 25 January 2017
If the full identity of the new owners of the Rosneft stake is a mystery, so too is the complete source of the funds with which they bought it.
...the detention of an official who would have been in a position to engage in the election hacking in America could indicate a good-will gesture to the United States