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When I was ambassador, we felt like we were under siege all the time, Mr. McFaul said. He said that delaying a medical flight would fit the kind of classic harassment that for many years now our people have been putting up with. Its inexcusable, its horrible.…

Facebook, once an innocent tool to share whats on your mind has increasingly been weaponized by governments to spread disinformation and manipulate elections something hundreds of the tech giants employees outlined in an open letter this week that urged the c…

Facebook said the influence campaigns were connected to a Russian businessman tied to U.S. election meddling Josh Edelson/AFP via Getty Images Facebook said it suspended three Russian-backed networks of accounts that were targeting people in eight African c…

That was Russias experience in imperial and Soviet times. As the Russian reformer Yegor Gaidar once summarized his countrys historical cycles, a ruler would go all out to catch up and overtake the world, especially in military technology, only to exhaust and …

Michael Phelps, 34, took time from his the third year of retirement from competitive swimming and to speak out about issues that affect the playing field. The most decorated Olympian of all time told CNN that the issue of doping in sport "needs to change." P…

putin birthday forest propaganda smiling Sputnik/Alexei Druzhinin/Kremlin via REUTERS Russian President Vladimir Putin went on a victory lap this week, replacing the US as chief power broker in Syria, and gaining a closer ally in Europe's backyard. …

(MOSCOW) — The Russian Defense Ministry says a soldier killed eight of his comrades and wounded two others in a shooting outburst at a base in Siberia before being apprehended. The ministry said the attack happened Friday at a military base in the town of Go…

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Kurdish forces have begun withdrawing from areas near the Turkish border in Syria, the Interfax news agency cited Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Vershinin as saying on Thursday. Moscow, a close Syrian ally, told Syrian Kurdish for…

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia warned Syrian Kurdish YPG forces on Wednesday they face further armed conflict with Turkey if they fail to comply with a Russian-Turkish accord calling for their withdrawal from the entire length of Syria’s northeastern border with T…

Russia will on Wednesday land the world’s biggest military aircraft in South Africa, the Tupolev Tu-160 “Blackjack” bomber, in a rare display of cooperation between the defense forces of the two countries. The two bombers, which are capable of launching nucl…