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Last June, the Trump-hating reporters who always wanted to underline that then-President Donald Trump was almost traitorously soft on Russia banged a can about a New York Times story headlined “Russia Secretly Offered Afghan Militants Bounties to Kill U.S. Troops, Intelligence Says.” Now the liberal Daily Beast website is offering a jaw-dropping assessment: “It was…

Over the past few weeks, Russian dissident Alexei Navalny’s health has been deteriorating. Navalny’s condition began with back pain and numbness in his legs, but it has worsened to include a severe cough, fever, two herniated discs, and diminishing feeling in both hands. Navalny is currently incarcerated at the Pokrov penal colony, about 60 miles…

Russian citizens are protesting the imprisonment of Alexei Navalny, an opposition leader and anti-corruption activist. Navalny was arrested and jailed Jan. 17, accused of violating his parole conditions from a false conviction for embezzlement and money laundering. He was unable to fulfill these conditions due to the fact that he had been recovering from poisoning…

Alexei Navalny returned to Russia from Germany on Jan. 17 and was arrested at the airport upon arrival. Navalny, a leading Russian political opposition figure, had been recovering in Germany since late August, when he was poisoned with Novichok, a military-grade nerve agent, in Tomsk, Russia, in an assassination attempt. The reason for his return…

News reports on Wednesday out of Germany indicate that prominent Russian political opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who recently became ill in Russia, may have been poisoned with the Russian military-grade nerve agent infamously known as “Novichok.” If true, it’s no surprise, considering long-standing international concerns about Russia and chemical weapons. As you recall, about two…

Borscht, or beet soup, is a staple of Eastern European cuisine. Its dense, complex flavor derives in part from the sour cream that is often mixed in. In the thick soup of the Libyan civil war, the shadowy group of Russian paramilitaries known as the Wagner Group is the sour cream. Its involvement has made…

On Tuesday, the Pentagon announced the U.S. Navy has deployed the W76-2 low-yield nuclear weapon on its Trident II submarine-launched ballistic missiles, an achievement that fills a critical gap in the United States’ deterrence posture against Russia. The official announcement marks the completion of a short-yet-controversial process of modifying the Navy’s W76-1 nuclear warhead to…

Aggression by Iran and trade with China may dominate U.S. foreign policy headlines, but a plan recently announced by Russia to increase its presence in the Arctic should command our attention. The Northern Sea Route Development Plan—known as Plan NSP—marks a 15-year effort by Russia to strengthen its involvement in the Arctic by focusing on…

To understand communism, it’s important to look at the man who was the first to institute a government dedicated to Karl Marx’s ideals: Vladimir Lenin. When I was in college, I recall a conversation with several classmates who joked about throwing a get-together and naming it “The Communist Party.” They mocked the idea that anyone…

Under the misleading guise of being a British company, a firm connected to a Russian oligarch is seeking to expand its investments and business dealings across the United States.  Only a few months after Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska’s companies were scandalously removed from U.S. sanctions, they have wasted no time trying to enter the U.S….