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In this July 28, 2018, photo, Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks during the State Prize awards ceremony in Kremlin in Moscow, Russia. Congress is producing an unusual outpouring of bills, resolutions and new sanctions proposals to push back at President Donald Trump's approach to Putin.
Looking at Russia's competing spy services, their overlapping operations against the US and their sometimes careless tradecraft, some CIA veterans are wondering if the Russian spooks actually want to get caught. The truth is, President Vladimir Putin probably doesn't mind that his intelligence activities are so blatant that they're a subject of daily public debate.
Thousands protested in central Moscow on Sunday against a proposed increase to the retirement age and the crowd chanted slogans critical of President Vladimir Putin whose approval ratings have been dented by the bill. The rally organized by the opposition Libertarian Party chanted "Putin is a thief" and "away with the tsar," slogans common at anti-Putin and anti-government protests.
The Soviet Union and now Russia under Vladimir Putin have waged a political power struggle against the West for nearly a century. Spreading false and distorted information - called " dezinformatsiya " after the Russian word for "disinformation" - is an age-old strategy for coordinated and sustained influence campaigns that have interrupted the possibility of level-headed political discourse.
The verdict on the most galling week of an outrageous presidency is in, and it shouldn't come as the shock that it does: Republicans forgive President Donald Trump his surrender to Vladimir Putin, his siding with Russia over the United States, his puppy-dog performance in Helsinki - all of it. Or rather, they don't see anything to forgive.
The Soviet Union and now Russia under Vladimir Putin have waged a political power struggle against the West for nearly a century. Spreading false and distorted information - called " dezinformatsiya " after the Russian word for "disinformation" - is an age-old strategy for coordinated and sustained influence campaigns that have interrupted the possibility of level-headed political discourse.
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is dodging questions from lawmakers asking for specifics on how North Korea defines "complete denuclearization" but acknowledges a great deal of work lies ahead. Pompeo told members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Wednesday that he "will concede there is an awful long way to go" following President Donald Trump's historic summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Singapore.
Les Moonves and CBS Face Allegations of Sexual Misconduct - Six women accuse the C.E.O. of harassment and intimidation, and dozens more describe abuse at his company. - For more than twenty years, Leslie Moonves has been one of the most powerful media executives in America.
Les Moonves and CBS Face Allegations of Sexual Misconduct - Six women accuse the C.E.O. of harassment and intimidation, and dozens more describe abuse at his company. - For more than twenty years, Leslie Moonves has been one of the most powerful media executives in America.
US President Donald Trump is open to visiting Moscow - if he gets a formal invitation from Vladimir Putin, the White House has said. The Russian leader has said he is game for a trip to Washington - but his answer came only after Mr Trump retracted his invitation for a meeting in the autumn.
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President Donald Trump is open to visiting Moscow - if he gets a formal invitation from Vladimir Putin, the White House said. Russian President Putin said he's game for a trip to Washington - but his answer came only after Trump retracted his invitation for a fall sit-down.
President Donald Trump is open to visiting Moscow - if he gets a formal invitation from Vladimir Putin, the White House said. Russian President Putin said he's game for a trip to Washington - but his answer came only after Trump retracted his invitation for a fall sit-down.
President Donald Trump is open to visiting Moscow - if he gets a formal invitation from Vladimir Putin, the White House said Friday. Russian President Putin said he's game for a trip to Washington - but his answer came only after Trump retracted his invitation for a fall sit-down.
WASHINGTON After President Donald Trump pushed their next meeting into next year, Russian leader Vladimir Putin said Friday he is "ready to go to Washington," but conditions have to be right for another summit and, for good measure, the two presidents also talked about yet another meeting later in Moscow. "We are ready for such meetings, we are ready to invite President Trump to Moscow," Putin said during a visit to Johannesburg.
The Moscow lawyer said to have promised Donald Trump's presidential campaign dirt on his Democratic opponent worked more closely with senior Russian government officials than she previously let on, according to documents reviewed by The Associated Press. Scores of emails, transcripts and legal documents paint a portrait of Natalia Veselnitskaya as a well-connected attorney who served as a ghostwriter for top Russian government lawyers and received assistance from senior Interior Ministry personnel in a case involving a key client.
The Moscow lawyer said to have promised Donald Trump's presidential campaign dirt on his Democratic opponent worked more closely with senior Russian government officials than she previously let on, according to documents reviewed by The Associated Press. Scores of emails, transcripts and legal documents paint a portrait of Natalia Veselnitskaya as a well-connected attorney who served as a ghostwriter for top Russian government lawyers and received assistance from senior Interior Ministry personnel in a case involving a key client.
The House on Thursday overwhelmingly passed the final version of the annual defense authorization bill, giving its approval to a record-setting military budget and changes to policies on Russia and China that nonetheless avoids direct clashes with the Trump administration. The 359 to 54 vote on the $716 billion measure, which the Senate is expected to take up in coming weeks, comes after one of the shortest negotiation processes for the behemoth defense bill in recent history - an indicator of how few politically controversial issues arose during the debate.