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...

​Russia has approved extending the last nuclear arms agreement with the US for another five years on Wednesday – just days before the pact was due to expire. Both Russian houses of parliament – the State Duma and Federation Council – OK’d the extension of the Strategic Arms

President Biden on Tuesday called Russian President Vladimir Putin to put him on notice about his “malign actions,” White House press secretary Jen Psaki said. Psaki said that Biden intended to discuss a range of hot-button issues with Putin, including an allegation that Russia offered

MOSCOW – Police detained more than 3,000 people and used force to break up rallies across Russia on Saturday as tens of thousands of protesters ignored extreme cold and police warnings to demand the release of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny. Navalny had called on his supporters to protest

Hundreds of citizens have been arrested amid protests spanning 60 cities across Russia, sparked by the recent arrest of opposition leader Alexei Navalny.

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Leaders from the European Union on Thursday called on Russia to release Alexei Navalny, the opposition leader who was promptly imprisoned upon his return to his homeland this week.

Riley June Williams surrendered Monday night, after federal authorities got an arrest warrant over her role in the Jan. 6 Capitol siege.

“[A witness] stated that Williams intended to send the computer device to a friend in Russia, then planned to sell the device to SVR, Russia’s foreign intelligence service,” according to the affidavit.

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.