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The feeling that no one was safe became especially acute after a former economy minister, Aleksei V. Ulyukayev, was jailed in 2017 for eight years on bribery charges that many suspected were manufactured. That sentiment helps explain why the Golunov case eru…

The prices the captive animals would have brought could have surpassed $100 million, Mr. Putin said during his call-in program. The companies that held the whales were reluctant to release them, even after he got involved. Thats why there are many interested…

Image copyrightGetty ImagesImage caption The level of support for President Putin is now under intense debate in Russia Within months of Russian President Vladimir Putin clinching his fourth term in office, Russia hosted the World Cup. It was June 2018, a…

Each year, Russian president Vladimir Putin takes questions from citizens in an epic Q&A called Direct Line. The event is notable for the number of questions people submit (in the millions), the range of topics they cover (from Russian interference in the…

In September, just before the election, the F.B.I. told President Obama about possible Russian interference and he did nothing because he thought that Hillary Clinton, crooked Hillary was going to win thats why he did nothing. He did nothing. Mr. Trump is f…

In a maze of tunnels 900 feet beneath the Nevada desert, US nuclear weapons scientists have since the 1990s been intermittently agitating flecks of plutonium with chemical high explosives, carefully trying to push them to the brink of a chain reaction capable…

Image copyrightGetty ImagesImage caption Ornella Muti has been a star on screen and stage since the 1970s Italian actress Ornella Muti has been told she could go to jail if she fails to pay damages for cancelling tour dates to attend a dinner with Russia's…

Here is a video of Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin, Barack Obama, Kim Jong Un, and other world leaders lip-syncing along to John Lennon’s Imagine: Of course this isn’t real. The video was done by a company called Canny AI, which offers services like “replace the…

Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland says she will speak out about the lack of media freedom in Russia during a conference that Canada is co-hosting next month with Great Britain. Her comments Monday came the same day as Russia’s three major newspapers…

NUR-SULTAN, Kazakhstan—Looking around Kazakhstan’s glitzy capital, you’d be forgiven for not realizing that the country is on the verge of one of its most meaningful political moments since the collapse of the Soviet Union. Nursultan Nazarbayev, Kazakhstan’s …