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Russia Begins Sending Natural Gas To China As Putin And Xi Open New Pipeline

2:41pm December 02, 2019

by Bill Chappell

When it's fully completed, the Russia-China pipeline will span more than 5,000 miles, connecting Siberian gas fields to cities in northeastern China that currently rely on coal.

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Is Crimea Russian? U.S. And EU Say No, Apple Says Kremlin Can See What It Wants To

8:47am November 30, 2019

by Scott Simon

The tech giant's apps are doing what the European Union and the U.S. won't: Recognizing Russia's annexation of the peninsula seized from Ukraine. Users in Russia will see it as part of their country.

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Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks at an economic forum in Moscow on Nov. 20. "Thank God no one is accusing us anymore of interfering in the U.S. elections. Now they're accusing Ukraine," he said.

The View From Moscow On The Trump Impeachment Inquiry

5:26pm November 27, 2019

by Lucian Kim

"Thank God nobody is accusing us anymore of interfering in U.S. elections," Russian President Vladimir Putin said at an investment conference last week. "Now they're accusing Ukraine."

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Crime in Progress: Inside the Steele Dossier and the Fusion GPS Investigation of Donald Trump, by Glenn Simpson and Peter Fritsch

In 'Crime In Progress,' Fusion GPS Chiefs Tell The Inside Story Of The Steele Dossier

12:16pm November 22, 2019

by Philip Ewing

Glenn Simpson and Peter Fritsch reveal the hows and whys of the whirlwind they uncorked by commissioning Christopher Steele to investigate Donald Trump's activities in Russia.

From Russia with Blood: The Kremlin's Ruthless Assassination Program and Vladimir Putin's Secret War on the West, by Heidi Blake

'From Russia With Blood' Doesn't Capture The Messy Nature Of Russian Politics

11:10am November 19, 2019

by Leonid Ragozin

Buzzfeed's Heidi Blake fails to support a dubious argument, but the book is worth reading for its recap of more than a dozen murder and suspicious death stories during a two-decade period.

Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny speaks during a Moscow rally in September to support political prisoners.

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Russian Opposition Leader Navalny Links Moscow Prosecutor To Luxury Properties Abroad

1:56pm November 15, 2019

by Lucian Kim

Alexei Navalny, a prominent critic of President Vladimir Putin, runs an anti-corruption organization that Russian authorities accuse of being a "foreign agent." This week, he hit back.

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Sergei Klimov is the eighth Jehovah's Witness to be sentenced since ban calling the banned the religious group as an extremist organization went into effect in 2017, Reuters reports.

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Russian Court Sentences Jehovah's Witness To 6 Years In Prison For 'Extremism'

5:36pm November 05, 2019

A string of Jehovah's Witnesses have been convicted since Russia's Supreme Court banned the Christian denomination as an "extremist organization" in 2017.

Norwegian Pvt. Ivan Sjoetun sits in the border post where Russian land can be seen out the window. The post is in the far northeast corner of Norway and offers a commanding view of this starkly beautiful area some 250 miles above the Arctic Circle.

In A Remote Arctic Outpost, Norway Keeps Watch On Russia's Military Buildup

8:41am November 03, 2019

by Jackie Northam

Warmer weather up north is opening up shipping lanes and new access to natural resources. It's also fueling a military buildup.

Demonstrators protest at a Free Internet rally in Moscow in March. A new law takes effect on Friday that could restrict Internet access.

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New Russian Law Gives Government Sweeping Power Over Internet

3:19pm November 01, 2019

by Merrit Kennedy

The new law greatly expands Russia's grip on its citizens' Internet content. Rights groups are highly critical, and Internet experts say it could be difficult to actually implement.

Facebook said the influence campaigns targeting people in eight African countries were connected to a Russian businessman tied to meddling in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.

Facebook Takes Down Accounts Tied To Russian Businessman Behind 'Troll Factory'

3:06pm October 30, 2019

by Shannon Bond

Facebook said the influence campaigns were tied to Yevgeny Prigozhin, an associate of Vladimir Putin who was indicted for running the troll factory that meddled in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.