Russia

Pussy Riot's Pyotr Verzilov, Allegedly Poisoned, Is Flown To Germany For Treatment

11:45am September 17, 2018

by Scott Neuman

The unofficial spokesman for the punk-rock anti-Kremlin protest group became ill after a court date last week, reportedly experiencing hallucinations and paralysis before falling unconscious.

Workers, photographed in 2016, at the Russian Anti-Doping Agency. An executive committee at the World Anti-Doping Agency is considering reinstating the Russian organization.

Committee Recommends Russia's Anti-Doping Agency Be Reinstated

8:46pm September 14, 2018

by Sasha Ingber

The World Anti-Doping Agency's compliance review committee made the call, despite protests from international athletes that they "will no longer have faith in the system."

Spiez Laboratory is believed to have been involved with the analysis of chemical agents used in the U.K. It was allegedly targeted by Russian agents earlier this year.

Russians Allegedly Targeted Lab Studying Chemical Weapons

5:24pm September 14, 2018

by Geoff Brumfiel

Russian agents were allegedly planning to hack into a Swiss laboratory that was analyzing nerve agents used in March against a former Russian spy and his daughter.

Russian President Vladimir Putin says two men identified by British police as suspects in the poisoning of a former KGB agent and his daughter are private citizens, not government agents. Scotland Yard released photos of the men last week.

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Putin: 'We Know' True Identities Of U.K.'s 2 Suspects In Skripal Poisoning

10:51am September 12, 2018

by Bill Chappell

Russia's president said the men whom U.K. police recently accused of poisoning former spy Sergei Skripal are private citizens, not Russian agents, and urged them to speak out.

An offshore installation barge welds segments of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline, to be laid on the seabed near Lubmin on Germany's Baltic coast.

World News

In Germany, Construction Has Begun On Controversial New Russian Gas Pipeline

11:29am September 10, 2018

by Esme Nicholson

Construction began in May on the Nord Stream 2 pipeline, which will enable Russia to boost its natural gas exports to Europe. President Trump has warned that it will make Germany "captive to Russia."

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Aircraft and ground troops from seven countries, including China and Russia, go through an "anti-terrorist" exercise at the Chebarkul tank range in Russia on Aug. 29.

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Russia's Multinational Military Exercise Last Week Was A Dry Run For Bigger War Games

5:54pm September 05, 2018

by Lucian Kim

The exercise, called "Peace Mission 2018," included 3,000 troops from China, India, Pakistan and other countries. Next week's war games are billed as the biggest Russian exercises since the Cold War.

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Russian troops and their Belarusian counterparts awaiting orders during joint military exercises in Belarus last year. Next month, Russia will embark on another joint military exercise — this time on a much larger scale and in collaboration with China a

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Russia Prepares 300,000 Troops For Its Largest War Games In Nearly 4 Decades

3:44pm August 29, 2018

by Colin Dwyer

The exercise known as Vostok-2018 will occur next month and involve more than 1,000 aircraft and the help of Chinese soldiers. The Kremlin says it has not mustered drills on such a scale since 1981.

President Trump held a rally Tuesday night but waited until Wednesday to respond to the legal troubles of two close associates.

Politics & Government

A Day After Cohen Guilty Plea, Trump Contradicts His Former Personal Lawyer

4:49pm August 22, 2018

by Sarah McCammon

President Trump and the White House had stayed mostly silent in the wake of Paul Manafort's conviction and Michael Cohen's guilty plea, but Wednesday he returned to Twitter and taped a TV interview.

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Politics & Government

Guilty: 6 Takeaways From Manafort's And Cohen's Big Day

10:05am August 22, 2018

by Domenico Montanaro

The two high-profile people close to President Trump were either found guilty or pleaded guilty to multiple federal crimes — and one implicated the president in a major campaign finance violation.

A specialist team member in a police protective suit in Salisbury, England, last month. British police scoured sections of Salisbury and Amesbury in southwest England, searching for a container feared to be contaminated with traces of the deadly nerve age

U.S. To Impose New Sanctions On Russia For Nerve Agent Attacks

2:50pm August 09, 2018

by Scott Neuman

The move, which comes months after the attack in the U.K. on Russian ex-spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter, follows pressure on the Trump administration from lawmakers in both parties.