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Former US Navy Adm. William McRaven, the Navy SEAL who oversaw the raid that took out al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden in 2011, wrote an opinion column criticizing the Trump administration and defending former acting Director of National Intelligence Joe Maguire."I have known Joe for more than 40 years. There…

Vladimir Putin is up to old tricks. Earlier this week news broke that Russia is again backing the candidacy of Donald Trump as the president seeks reelection. Now the Washington Post is reporting that U.S. intelligence believes Russia is also attempting to aid the candidacy of Bernie Sanders on the…

Russia president Vladimir Putin's popularity with voters soared after the Sochi gamesA presidential playground with a $50bn budget, disguised government agents, secret sample swapping and an elaborate Russian plot to dominate on the global stage.A retrospective look at the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics reads like a script for a James…

Saint Petersburg (AFP) - Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday faced what appeared to be a rare unscripted grilling from a Russian woman who asked him how much he earns and whether he could live on her income of $170 a month.While visiting his native city of Saint Petersburg, Putin…

FILE PHOTO: Top-level Kremlin adviser Vladislav Surkov attends a meeting outside Moscow, December 14, 2010. REUTERS/Sergei Karpukhin/File PhotoMOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday dismissed a veteran, once close adviser who until recently managed Moscow’s relations with war-torn Ukraine. Putin fired Vladislav Surkov, seen as a hardliner by…

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Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday urged Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelenskyy to stick to peace agreements to de-escalate the five-year conflict between Kyiv forces and Moscow-backed separatists, the Kremlin said in a blunt statement on Friday. Putin and Zelenskyy discussed the settlement of the conflict, the Kremlin said, adding that…

Prague, Czech Republic - The Czech capital risks angering the Kremlin with plans to rename a public square after murdered Russian opposition leader Boris Nemtsov. The change of name at "Pod Kastany Namesti" ("Under the Chestnuts Square") in Prague will do little to improve recently strained relations with Moscow. The…

President Donald Trump is weighing blocking all officials from listening in on his phone calls with foreign leaders."I may end the practice entirely," Trump told the Fox News personality Geraldo Rivera in a radio interview that aired on Thursday.There are serious risks associated with barring officials from listening in on…

Shutterstock/2018 A court in Moscow today issued fines of 4 million rubles each against Twitter and Facebook for the social media companies' refusal to store data about Russian citizens inside Russia. The fines of nearly $63,000 are, as the saying goes, barely a rounding error for either of those massive…