A Senate committee released newly declassified documents that showed the Federal
Bureau of Investigation was wary in early 2017 of a dossier compiled by
ex-British spy Christopher Steele that helped stir a narrative of the Trump
campaign’s ties to Russia.
President Trump’s top intelligence adviser has declassified and may release the
names of Obama administration officials who requested the “unmasking” of former
Trump national security adviser Mike Flynn.
German-owned publisher Business Insider has commissioned a comic book from
Anthony Del Col and Josh Adams to tell the full story of, as the publisher puts
Western election monitors said Russia’s parliamentary vote was neither free nor
fair, and was tipped in favor of the pro-Kremlin United Russia party, which
nevertheless was dealt a significant setback.
A leading Moscow newspaper is charging that the country’s main Kremlin-funded
youth group was behind a wave of illegal Internet attacks that caused its
website to crash in 2008.
Yelena Bonner, whose marriage to the Nobel Peace laureate Andrei Sakharov
vaulted her into a life of dissidence and exile, died Saturday in Boston. She
was 88.
Russia’s fast-growing Internet has been hit with its first big brouhaha over
privacy, as a wave of sensitive data have been turning up in Web searches.
Russian authorities ripped into Washington’s new ambassador to Moscow for
meeting with opposition figures on his second day of work at the U.S. Embassy.
Google said it is steering Internet traffic away from its domain dedicated to
the Central Asian country of Kazakhstan, after the government there demanded
that Google use only servers inside the country.
Russian President Vladimir Putin was the subject of a fawning 2½-hour
documentary aired on state-controlled television Sunday night that buttressed
his image as guardian of the nation even as relations deteriorate with the West.
Any success in the offensive against pro-Russia rebels means local governments
must be re-established—a task that is falling to military commanders without
much of a road map.
Now governor of Dnipropetrovsk, Ihor Kolomoisky is taking on pro-Russia
separatists with a fast military buildup. But critics worry about the growing
power of the country’s oligarchs.
Russian television interrupted its prime-time news Saturday to showcase
President Vladimir Putin’s latest athletic exploit: His ice hockey team won the
final game of an amateur league series: Guess who was the star.
In a triumph for the Kremlin, a militant group confirmed long-simmering rumors
that Doku Umarov, the self-proclaimed leader of Islamist insurgence in Russia,
is dead.
Russian troops fired warning shots over the heads of unarmed Ukrainian soldiers
trying to return to work at a captured airfield here Tuesday—illustrating the
potential for violence in Crimea the longer the tense situation persists.