President Vladimir Putin ordered the Russian military on Friday to work out a quid pro quo response after the test of a new U.S. missile banned under a now-defunct arms treaty.
Paul N. Whelan, a former Marine held for eight months on charges he denies, said he was in “great pain” and compared his treatment to the Salem witch trials.
Mr. Navalny, the high-profile Kremlin critic, was jailed last month after calling for protests against the exclusion of opposition candidates from Moscow elections.
President Trump issued his latest call for ending Moscow’s international pariah status, but the idea is likely to earn a cool reception at the annual Group of 7 summit starting this weekend.
President Trump said Russia should be readmitted to the Group of 7 nations during a meeting on Tuesday with Romania’s president.
Sensors that might have shed light on a mysterious nuclear accident stopped sending data in the days afterward. Technical problems were blamed. Then an official said Russia did not have to share data.
Syria appeared close to seizing the town of Khan Sheikhoun, though clashes continued. The town lies on an important transportation corridor.
John Sullivan, the deputy secretary of state, has been confirmed once by the Senate. Should President Trump send him to Moscow, he would face a new hearing.
A writer who charted the collapse of reality in Russia now sees it worldwide.
As long as the Statue of Liberty stands, it renders Donald Trump an impostor.
Looming over the demonstrations were questions about whether the movement could be sustained past the Sept. 8 elections, and what comes after President Vladimir Putin’s term.
Coping with an unseen risk, residents of a city near a nuclear accident turned to one another for advice. The government has mostly remained silent.
An explosion at a military testing site in northern Russia is suspected to have involved a nuclear-propelled missile. It might be the worst nuclear accident in the region in decades.
The plane, a Ural Airlines flight carrying over 200 people, flew into a flock of gulls shortly after taking off from Moscow, damaging both engines.
Russia’s government is trying to put Soviet-style restrictions on scientists’ contact with foreign peers, requiring them to ask permission and report back on meetings.
In the wake of the dowdy Soviet era, she was called the most powerful woman in Russian fashion, ushering in Western brands and modernizing top department stores.
Whoever was responsible, experts say, the episode raised serious concerns about the state of Bulgaria’s cybersecurity.
The case for a contender from the right.
Residents were told to leave on Wednesday, suggesting a serious danger, but later reports said the evacuation had been called off.
Residents were told to leave on Wednesday, suggesting a serious danger, but later reports said the evacuation had been called off.
Don’t expect a straight answer from Vladimir Putin’s government.
Russians vented their anger online and to local officials about the absence of reliable information after the explosion of a small nuclear reactor at a military test site last week.
Intelligence officials suspect that the explosion involved a prototype of a nuclear-propelled cruise missile that President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia has boasted can reach any corner of the earth.
In one of Moscow’s biggest protests in several years, about 50,000 people turned out to denounce limits on potential candidates.
Sweden was long seen as a progressive utopia. Then came waves of immigrants — and the forces of populism at home and abroad.
As signs of a secretive cleanup effort emerged, an official statement hinted at an accident involving a new nuclear engine for missiles.
Russian cheating requires a strong response.
Russian officials are investigating Apple’s moves to remove parental control apps from its App Store shortly after it released a competing service.
With the I.N.F. treaty gone, doubts about the New START accord and talk of American missile deployments in Asia, a new arms race seems inevitable.
Two people were reported killed, which would make it the second recent lethal fire involving the Russian Navy. The authorities are prohibiting shipping and sailing in parts of the White Sea for a month.
El calentamiento global está reduciendo el permafrost, el suelo permanentemente congelado de esa región rusa, lo que cambia la vida cotidiana en uno de los lugares más fríos del planeta.
Supporters of former president Almazbek Atambayev repelled an attempt by security forces to detain and at least one soldier was shot and killed.
The ambassador kept a mostly low profile in Moscow as a special prosecutor in the United States investigated Russian election interference
Huntsman, a Republican, could return to Utah to run for governor. He was a popular governor in the state when former President Barack Obama tapped him as ambassador to China in 2009.
In “This Is Not Propaganda,” Peter Pomerantsev describes traveling the world to discover ever new forms of media manipulation.
With Putin and Trump having torn up a Cold War pact that lowered the risk of nuclear war, America should build more conventional missiles to catch up with Russia and China.
Russians with little experience with debt are relying on easy credit and payday lenders. Now the central bank is trying to cool the lending market.
Volodymyr Zelensky, a former comedian, appeals to Russian speakers his predecessor could never reach. He’s now putting his star power to diplomatic use.
Global warming is shrinking the permanently frozen ground across Siberia, disrupting everyday life in one of the coldest inhabited places on earth.
Russia’s version of the F.B.I. said the anticorruption foundation led by Aleksei A. Navalny was suspected of money laundering.
With questions over what will happen when the Russian leader’s term ends in 2024, the Kremlin appears resolved to prevent critics from gaining a political foothold.
The demonstrations of recent weeks may push him to mistakes that test his grip on power.
It is the second round of sanctions by the United States in response to a botched attempt in March 2018 to fatally poison a former military intelligence officer.
It is the second round of sanctions by the United States in response to a botched attempt in March 2018 to fatally poison a former military intelligence officer.
Trump administration officials say that the treaty tied their hands on China and that Russia was not complying with it, but its demise raised fears of a new arms race.
The decision came hours after U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres authorized an investigation into attacks on health facilities and schools in the rebel-held enclave, following a petition from 10 members of the U.N. Security Council.
The total area in flames equals the size of Belgium, and many industrial cities are blanketed by a layer of smoke.
Mr. McConnell, the Senate leader, has typically embraced nasty nicknames by critics. But criticism of his role in blocking election measures has taken hold in an unusual way.
The super-destructive weapons touted by Russia’s president aren’t as original, or functional, as he claims.
The translation of “21 Lessons for the 21st Century” removed or altered passages critical of Putin’s administration, as well as references to the author’s sexuality.
Over a doctor’s objection, the hospital treating the Russian opposition leader Aleksei Navalny sent him back to jail without identifying the cause of his illness.
The opposition leader, jailed for planning an election protest in Moscow, had never experienced an allergic reaction before, his spokeswoman said.
Robert Mueller sounded the alarm about threats to the nation’s democracy, but lawmakers keep playing politics.
The protest was the latest in a series of street demonstrations as economic hardship has dented President Vladimir V. Putin’s approval ratings.