Russia

Google CEO Sundar Pichai said “ad accounts linked to Russia” spent “about $4,700 in advertising” to influence 2016’s presidential election.

In what could become a possible issue for James Comey, the former FBI director repeatedly stated in testimony to the House Judiciary Committee that he “never” knew the author of the infamous anti-Trump dossier had been retained to do his work by a U.S.-based law firm.

Russia replaced the United Kingdom as the second largest purveyor of weapons and military services in the world last year, surpassed only by the United States, an assessment published by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) on Monday shows.

Ukraine’s Border Guard Service on Monday accused Russia of effectively blockading the Kerch Strait by subjecting vessels bound for Ukrainian ports to an extremely slow approval process that allows only a few ships to pass per day.

On Saturday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “AM Joy,” Mother Jones Washington Bureau Chief, author, and MSNBC analyst David Corn stated that the Russia scandal is “the most consequential political scandal in American history.” Corn said, “I have to say that all

On Saturday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “AM Joy,” Representative Steve Cohen (D-TN) stated that the Trump presidency is “directly a byproduct of Vladimir Putin and Russian interference in our election.” Cohen said that the hearing on former FBI Director James Comey

A redacted court filing submitted by special counsel Robert Mueller on Friday alleges former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort breached a plea agreement to cooperate with investigators by making false statements about his communications with a Russian national and Trump administration officials.

Venezuela is now importing 300,000 barrels of oil a day to ease domestic fuel shortages, despite having the world’s largest crude oil reserves.

Discussing a recent report which claimed that the United States had become a “flawed democracy”, the British Foreign Secretary rejected the finding and said the fact disaffected voters in the U.S. were able to elect President Trump proves democracy is in good shape.

A Russian lawmaker warned this week that the Russian military may target a proposed U.S. military base near Russia’s border in Poland, informally dubbed “Fort Trump,” if Washington and Warsaw move ahead with the plan, the state-run TASS news agency reported Thursday.

The U.S. Navy deployed its guided-missile destroyer USS McCampbell near Russia-contested waters in the Sea of Japan on Wednesday as it begun taking the necessary steps to sail a warship into the Black Sea, west of Russia, amid increased tensions in the wake of the Kremlin’s seizure of three Ukrainian military vessels.

The Ukrainian Ambassador to the United Nations Volodymyr Yelchenko revealed on Thursday that Russia has deployed nuclear weapon carriers in Crimea.

Tuesday appears to have marked the beginning of a serious bid by Israel finally to confront and defeat Iran’s proxy, Hezbollah.

Actor and outspoken leftist Jim Carrey begged special counsel Robert Mueller to be his “secret Santa” and deliver indictments for Christmas.

Mueller’s memo on Flynn left members of the so-called “resistance” disappointed he would likely not face jail, and no collusion was detailed.

Actress, former View host, and long-time hater of President Donald Trump Rosie O’Donnell declared Wednesday that Trump should “rot in jail.”

Rapper Ice Cube once again attacked President Donald Trump in an interview Wednesday, saying there’s enough evidence for him to be locked away in prison.

Russia is holding naval war exercises and surface-to-air missile drills in the Black Sea region amid tensions with Ukraine and a U.S.-led alliance over the capture of three Ukrainian naval vessels and their crew off the coast of Moscow-annexed Crimea last month, the Kremlin’s defense ministry reportedly announced on Tuesday.

Russian President Vladimir Putin threatened an arms race with the United States on Tuesday if the Trump administration follows through on its pledge to pull out of the intermediate-range nuclear forces (INF) treaty.

Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro met with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow Wednesday, where the latter agreed to support the socialist regime economically and politically. As of press time, both sides have kept the details of this support secret, however.

Contents: Russia ‘partially unblocks’ Ukraine’s ports; Turkey and Ukraine may establish strategic military partnership against Russia

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan proclaimed that his country would “cover most of Venezuela’s necessities” economically during remarks in the Latin American country Monday.

Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu pledged on Tuesday to hold over 4,000 military drills over the course of 2019, as well as around 8,500 practical combat training events as the Putin regime seeks to shore up its military preparation.

Ukraine’s President Petro Poroshenko announced on Monday that his country has begun drafting a lawsuit against Russia with the International Court of Justice (ICJ), a global tribunal open only to state actors, for the illegal seizure of Ukrainian ships at the mouth of the Sea of Azov in late November.

The Washington Post published an explanation piece on Monday attempting to clarify the ongoing saga of “Havana syndrome,” a series of medical ailments the U.S. State Department has branded “attacks” that have affected U.S. diplomats and staff in Cuba.

The Russian military has deployed additional S-400 surface-to-air missile batteries in its Dzhankoy airbase in Crimea amid heightened tensions with Ukraine.

“Nice to know that some people still have ‘guts!'” Trump wrote on Twitter, highlighting Stone’s loyalty to the president.

The head of the MI6 foreign spy agency warned Russia on Monday not to underestimate Britain’s capabilities and determination to expose malign behaviour, ahead of a rare public speech.

Thornberry and Inhofe implored the Trump administration not to go through with a $33 billion cut to the 2020 defense budget in an an op-ed.

Contents: Evidence grows of Assad’s ‘final solution’, extermination of Arab Sunnis in Syria; Al-Assad issues citizenship cards to Iranian and Hezbollah Shias; Al-Assad and Russia ally with ISIS against Arab Sunnis; The future of Idlib

On Friday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “All In,” Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) stated that President Trump is “extremely compromised.” And Russia has “the same leverage” over the president that they did over Michael Flynn, the ability to “blackmail” them “with the

President Donald Trump on Thursday formally canceled his planned G-20 summit meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin, in response to Russia’s attack on Ukrainian ships near Crimea last weekend, but the Kremlin insisted on Friday that Putin and Trump will have a “brief impromptu meeting” similar to Putin’s encounters with other summit attendees.

The Border Guard Service of Ukraine announced a ban on Friday on male Russian nationals between the ages of 16 and 60 entering the country for the duration of martial law, currently scheduled to last 30 days.

National Public Radio (NPR) made the false claim Friday that Donald Trump Jr’s Senate testimony about a Trump Tower deal in Moscow conflicted with testimony from Michael Cohen.

Trump has played it cool with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman and Russian President Putin so far at the G-20 summit in Buenos Aires.