New jailhouse testimony from a former Biden family business associate details at least two calls between Hunter Biden and his father, then the vice president, about lucrative business deals with China and Russia. One of the calls puts Mr. Biden in contact with a Russian oligarch and former mayor of Moscow. Jason Galanis, sentenced to […]
Democrats have resuscitated claims that Republican lawmakers are colluding with Russia, this time in the GOP’s impeachment probe of President Biden. Republicans reject the allegations, which are based on the arrest of Alexander Smirnov, a paid FBI informant whom prosecutors say has close ties to Russian intelligence agents and whom they accuse of lying about […]
The endless media cheerleading for Zelensky and Ukraine is beginning to show some serious cracks in the face of reality. That same reality hasn’t seemed to do anything to dissuade the White House and certain Biden Republicans in the Senate from continuing to push for more billions of dollars for Kyiv for “as long as […]
The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) has dismissed the Russian Olympic Committee’s (ROC) appeal of suspension imposed last October because the ROC incorporated four Ukrainian provinces, which is a breach of the Olympic charter. Russia was already barred by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) from allowing athletes to […]
President Biden says the U.S. is levying 500 new sanctions against Russia’s military capabilities and the persons responsible for imprisoning Alexei Navalny, a fierce critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin who died earlier this month. Mr. Biden said the sanctions are payback for Mr. Navalny’s death in an Arctic prison and designed to coincide with […]
Alexei Navalny and other opposition figures who posed threats to Russian President Vladimir Putin are dead. Ukrainian troops are running perilously low on ammunition. Russian forces are gaining ground in the Donbas. In America, the political fight over the utility of continued financial aid for Ukraine has reached a fever pitch. Taken together, those factors […]
AVDIIVKA REGION, Ukraine — The defenders of Avdiivka, starved for ammunition, were ordered last weekend to withdraw from the besieged city in Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk oblast, handing Russia its first major victory since the capture of Bakhmut in May. “I consider myself very lucky to be alive,” said 22-year-old Denys, clutching in his trembling hands […]
It’s not exactly a surprise: The threat posed by anti-satellite weapons has been steadily approaching, in plain view of everyone, for decades. “Soviet ASAT capabilities threaten U.S. military capabilities to some extent now and potentially to a much greater extent in the future,” researchers with the congressional Office of Technology Assessment wrote in a report […]
The Biden administration announced it is readying a “major sanctions package” against Russia in response to the death of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, according to national security spokesperson John Kirby. No details were given on the package, which is hardly surprising given that there’s very little left of the Russian economy that hasn’t […]
Here we go again. Russia’s main security agency, the Federal Security Service, known as the F.S.B., said Tuesday that it had arrested a dual citizen of the United States and Russia. She is charged with committing state treason because she raised money for Ukraine. Allegedly the 33-year-old woman identified as Ksenia Karelina, a resident of […]
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