ALEXANDRIA, Va. — A former Army Green Beret pleaded guilty Wednesday to divulging military secrets to Russia about his Special Forces unit’s activities in former Soviet republics. Peter Rafael Dzibinski Debbins, 45, of Gainesville, Virginia, pleaded guilty to a charge under the federal Espionage

MOSCOW – Mutations in the coronavirus are appearing in Siberia, the head of Russia’s consumer health watchdog said on Tuesday, as the country reported a record daily high of 442 deaths from COVID-19. “We see certain changes…in Siberia which allow us to assume that in this region it is forming its own version with specific...

An Aeroflot executive has been nabbed for allegedly spying for Britain, according to Russian news agencies. The London-based employee, Dmitry Fedotkin, is accused of passing secrets related to Russia’s social and political situation to Britain’s MI6 foreign intelligence service

China, along with Russia, avoided joining the throng that congratulated Biden last weekend after he and vice presidential running mate Kamala Harris secured enough Electoral College votes to unseat President Donald Trump.

President Trump’s re-election campaign lost its libel case against CNN for an opinion piece accusing the campaign of seeking help from Russia in the 2020 election. The campaign filed suit in March over Larry Noble’s opinion piece from June 13, 2019 — in which he claimed

Russia is reporting good news on its coronavirus vaccine tests.

Poisoned Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny announced Wednesday that he would soon fly home to Russia — defying the assassination plot and threats to throw him behind bars. The main opposition leader to President Vladimir Putin announced on social media that he has bought tickets for a flight home

Opposition leader and vocal Putin critic Alexei Navalny said he would return to Russian despite recovering from being poisoned and being threatened with jail time for a decade-old allegation.

Top leaders from the U.S., Russia, Brazil, and India were not in attendance at Monday’s virtually held One Planet Summit, which included world leaders like German Chancellor Angela Merkel and British Prime Minister Boris Johnson.

. Jordan “worked to unmask the Russia hoax and take on...

A former ambassador to Russia and Jordan, Burns, 64, had a 33-year career at the State Department under both Republican and Democratic presidents

President-elect Joe Biden announced Monday that he will nominate veteran diplomat William Burns as his CIA director. Burns, 64, a former ambassador to Russia and Jordan, had a 33-year career at the State Department under both Republican and Democratic presidents. He became deputy secretary

The former diplomat who butted heads with President Trump over the administration’s ties to Russia and North Korea said aides don’t need to invoke the 25th Amendment to get him out of the way.

American democracy is “limping on both feet,” a senior Russian lawmaker said Thursday – a day after a violent mob loyal to President Trump stormed the US Capitol in a last-ditch effort to overturn the election. Konstantin Kosachyov, chairman of the Russian upper house’s foreign affairs committee, said the chaos that unfolded in Washington, DC,...

The carcass is estimated to be about 20,000 to 50,000 years old.

Russian authorities on Tuesday launched a fraud investigation into leading government critic Alexei Navalny, alleging that he spent nearly $5 million in donations to his various organizations on himself, according to reports. Navalny is currently in Germany recuperating from an attempted assassination by poisoning in August, which an investigation alleges was perpetrated by the Russian...

Russia has admitted its COVID-19 death toll is three times higher than previously reported — making it the country with the third-largest number of fatalities from the pandemic. Experts have long doubted President Vladimir Putin’s repeated claims of a low death rate from the virus

A Russian law enforcement agency is threatening Putin critic Alexei Navalny with jail time unless he returns to the country for hearing.

Edward Snowden, the former national security contractor who fled to Russia after leaking classified documents from the U.S. government, has welcomed his first child, he and his wife announced on social media over the weekend.

Britain considered him the biggest double-crosser ever. Russia loved him. Now, he’s dead. George Blake had been self-isolating from the coronavirus near Moscow — his country home was a gift from the KGB — when he died Saturday at the age of 98, the Sun reported. “I think that the word

Poisoned Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny duped a Russian spy into confessing to the botched assassination attempt — revealing that nerve agent had been smeared on his underpants, according to a report. The 44-year-old opposition leader posed as a senior official from Russia’s National

India, Poland, Switzerland, Russia and Hong Kong barred visitors from the UK Monday after Prime Minister Boris Johnson warned that a mutated variant of the virus, up to 70 percent more infectious, had been identified in the country. 

The Utah senator said the massive cyberattack discovered earlier this week, which officials say could be the biggest hack on the American government ever, must be met with a vigorous response and without delay.

Sen. Mitt Romney said Russia acted with "impunity" when it hacked a number of federal agencies and scores of private companies worldwide - a cyber attack that must be met with a response from the US.

President Trump and his top advisers appear to be at loggerheads over who is to blame for the ongoing cyberattack on government and corporate computer systems – as well as its seriousness. “The Cyber Hack is far greater in the Fake News Media than in actuality,” Trump tweeted Saturday in his first public comments on...

It’s the hack attack that lacks blowback. Christopher Krebs was the director of the federal government’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) in March, when a massive breach of the nation’s computer systems — allegedly conducted by Russia — took hold

He also suggested Russia was not really to blame, directly contradicting American intelligence and even Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.

The closure of US offices in Vladivostok and Yekaterinburg is a reaction to coronavirus restrictions, the State Department said.

Russia is behind the ongoing hack of a spectrum of government agencies and corporations, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Friday night. “This was a very significant effort, and I think it’s the case that now we can say pretty clearly that it was the Russians that engaged in this activity

critic had been trailed and spied on for four years by Russia’s Federal Security Service before...