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A protester holds a poster reading "Free Yegor Zhukov!" during an August rally in Moscow, after mass police detentions. Yuri Kadobnov/AFP/Getty Images On Aug. 1, Yegor Zhukov posted his last YouTube video, making an impassioned appeal to support anti-govern…

A critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin used a drone to fly his hard drives out of his high-rise apartment shortly before police raided his home. A video posted to YouTube shows Sergey Boyko operating the drone as police try to enter his apartment in …

The trouble for Mr. Netanyahu is that the polling figures look no better this time around. Should Mr. Gantz emerge as prime minister, Mr. Netanyahu would not be able to use Parliament to try to block a threatened indictment. Attorney General Avichai Mandelbli…

John Bolton resigned as White House national security adviser on Tuesday, which must delight North Koreas Kim Jong Un, Irans Hassan Rouhani, Russias Vladimir Putin and Venezuelas Nicolás Maduro. Americas adversaries lost a rare internal restraint on President…

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump and adviser John Bolton were always unlikely foreign policy allies, with Bolton skeptical of Trump’s outreach on North Korea and efforts to woo Russian President Vladimir Putin and supportive of an Iraq war h…

Russian liberals are celebrating the relative success of the Communist Party and other Kremlin-friendly quasi-opposition parties in the elections to the Moscow city council on Sunday as an almost revolutionary breakthrough — but it takes some unpacking to exp…

Russian liberals are celebrating the relative success of the Communist Party and other Kremlin-friendly quasi-opposition parties in the elections to the Moscow city council on Sunday as an almost revolutionary breakthrough but it takes some unpacking to expla…

Image copyrightEPAImage caption CNN said President Trump's meeting with Russia's Sergei Lavrov in 2017 had spooked the CIA Moscow has played down reports in American media that the US extracted a high-level spy from Russia in 2017 fearing his cover could b…

(CNN)The chairman of a House Oversight subcommittee is seeking answers after it took the Trump administration nearly nine months to impose legally mandated sanctions on Russia for its use of chemical weapons. Late on August 1, the White House quietly announc…

Image copyrightTimati/InstagramImage caption Timati uploaded this picture with Russian President Vladimir Putin to Instagram in 2017 A rap song released by hip hop artists Timati and Guf has become the most disliked Russian-language video on YouTube. More…