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The apex cool of a character like the quasi-fictional James Bond had everything to do with the aplomb with which he got wherever he was going and never the real grunt work involved in getting there. So the periodic but frequent threats to his life, while wel…

WASHINGTON — U.S.-based nuclear experts said on Friday they suspected an accidental blast and radiation release in northern Russia this week occurred during the testing of a nuclear-powered cruise missile vaunted by President Vladimir Putin last year. The Ru…

What is Putin hiding?

Russia's stealthy new Su-70 Okhotnik-B heavy combat drone has taken flight for the first time, the Russian defense ministry revealed. The first flight, which occurred at a military airfield over the weekend, lasted 20 minutes, TASS, a Russian state-run med…

Russia's President Vladimir Putin has urged the United States to begin new arms talks after the collapse of a Cold War-era nuclear pact between the two world powers. Putin's remarks on Monday came after he ordered the defence and foreign ministries as well a…

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia’s anti-Kremlin opposition said it was planning a nationwide protest next weekend despite police forcibly detaining over 1,000 people on Saturday for attending what they said was an illegal march in Moscow to demand free elections. …

With demonstrations that wont stop, and arrests reaching 1,000 in a single day, Moscow is buzzing about a surge of political activism. Having been disappointed so often in the past, of course, Russian democrats know not to get their hopes up: President Vladim…

Putin listens during a meeting in the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, Friday, Aug. 2, 2019. | Mikhail Klimentyev, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP Peter Eltsov is professor of international security affairs at the National Defense University, and the author of …

Image copyrightReutersImage caption Presidents Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump, pictured in 2017, have pulled out of the INF treaty Nato will aim to avoid a new arms race with Russia, its secretary general says, after the US formally withdrew from a key nu…

The United States will withdraw from a landmark Cold War arms-control pact on Friday, six months after the Trump administration declared Russia in material breach of the treaty and said Moscow hadn't made an effort to return to compliance. The death of the I…