WASHINGTON — State Department officials on Monday announced the Trump administration is sanctioning Turkey for its “unacceptable” purchase of a $2.5 billion missile defense system from Russia. The sanctions come more than a year after Turkey purchased Russia’s S-400 system

of the FBI’s Russia collusion investigation since...

The Ilyushin-80 was undergoing maintenance at an airfield in Taganrog in southern Russia when the thieves struck, breaking into a cargo hatch and swiping $13,600 worth of gear, according to the Moscow Times.

Russia isn’t playing around with bars that flout COVID-19 rules. A team of Russian police beat partiers at one St. Petersburg watering hole with clubs Wednesday for failing to close at 11 p.m. due to the pandemic. Surveillance footage showed more than a dozen officers storming

Russian officials are warning citizens to avoid alcohol for two months after receiving the country’s COVID-19 vaccine — tough-to-swallow news for one of the world’s heaviest drinking countries. The warning came from Russian Deputy Prime Minister Tatiana Golikova, who said in an interview that Russians will have to observe extra precautions during the 42 days...

Vladimir Putin’s former son-in-law netted $380 million worth of shares in Russia’s biggest petrochemicals company for just $100, according to a new investigative report. Kirill Shamalov bought a 3.8 percent stake in Sibur shortly after marrying Putin’s daughter Katerina Tikhonova

Another partisan sticking point is emerging as President-elect Biden fills out his incoming cabinet: Special Counsel John Durham. Less than one week after Attorney General William Barr confirmed that he had appointed Durham to special counsel status in his probe into origins of the 2016 Russia

Moscow began mass coronavirus vaccinations Saturday, despite concerns over the speed with which the vaccine was rushed into development. The Russian-made Sputnik V COVID-19 shot was available at 70 clinics, according to the city’s coronavirus task force, Reuters reported. Frontline workers such as doctors and other medical personnel, teachers and social workers were the first...

Outgoing National Intelligence Director John Ratcliffe on Thursday urged President-elect Joe Biden not to fire special counsel John Durham, who is investigating misconduct in the FBI’s Russia investigation of President Trump. Attorney General William Barr revealed Durham’s appointment

Former special counsel Robert Mueller sat down for a rare, extensive interview that debuts Wednesday — but doesn’t include a single question about his role in the Russia investigation. The 76-year-old longest serving FBI director since J. Edgar Hoover was a guest on the podcast “

WASHINGTON — Attorney General William Barr has given the lead prosecutor investigating the origins of the Trump-Russia probe extra job security, appointing him as a special counsel to protect him from potential firing by a Biden White House. The order, quietly signed in October and obtained

, is accused of the string of killings that terrorized Russia...

President Trump's 2016 campaign associate Carter Page claims in a new lawsuit that an FBI agent used a fake name during interviews — another potential breach of protocol in the FBI's Russia investigation.

The OPEC nations, led by Saudi Arabia, must reach agreement among its members and those in the group known as OPEC Plus led by Russia.

The Trump administration is preparing to get rid of Air Force planes used for surveillance after exiting the Open Skies treaty with Russia, complicating President-elect Joe Biden options if he seeks to rejoin the accord, according to a report. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Sunday announced

President-elect Joe Biden’s expected pick for national security adviser, Jake Sullivan, acknowledged to a House committee that he told reporters in 2016 that the Trump campaign may have had ties with Russia. Sullivan, who served as Vice President Biden’s national security adviser, told

The Trump administration has officially withdrawn from a decades-old arms agreement with Russia, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Sunday. “Today, pursuant to earlier notice provided, the United States withdrawal from the Treaty on Open Skies is now effective. America is more secure

Russian special forces, acting on a tip from the US, rescued a 7-year-old boy kidnapped in late September by a suspected pedophile. In a short but harrowing video released by the Russian interior ministry, the soldiers can be seen cutting through a reinforced metal door to reach the boy and arrest the 26-year-old suspect in...

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...

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...