A Russian court on Friday sentenced three lawyers for the late opposition leader Aleksei A. Navalny to as much as five and a half years in prison for passing on correspondence from him to his allies, a clear reminder of how the Kremlin is still pursuing his associates even after his death. The three lawyers…
President Masoud Pezeshkian of Iran arrived in Moscow on Friday for high-profile talks with Vladimir V. Putin, his Russian counterpart, solidifying an alliance between two countries driven by a mutual desire to challenge the West. Iran and Russia have been subjected to a raft of sanctions by the West, and trade and finance are at…
MOSCOW — Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian arrived in Moscow on Friday for talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin and the signing of a strategic partnership treaty involving closer defense cooperation that is likely to worry the West. Pezeshkian, on his first Kremlin visit since winning the presidency last July, will hold talks with Putin focusing…
European governments wonder if Trump will continue US support of Ukraine and NATO in a conflict with Russia that has partly played out in cyberspace. Fick’s team was instrumental in establishing a process for rapidly delivering cyber-defense aid to Ukraine’s battered government. “I was in Ukraine right before Christmas, I was in Poland, I was…
Russian President Vladimir Putin‘s allies in Hungary and Slovakia are increasingly facing backlash for their pro-Moscow stance. Newsweek contacted the foreign ministries of Slovakia and Hungary for comment by email on Thursday. Why It Matters Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has built strong economic and political ties with Moscow and has often spoken of his…
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It was a tense conversation between two authoritarian leaders accustomed to getting their way. President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia was offering explanations for the Azerbaijan Airlines plane crash that had killed 38 people days earlier. Perhaps it was a flock of birds, Mr. Putin said, or an exploding gas canister. Maybe a Ukrainian drone….
The accusation was as blunt as it was serious: Russia is plotting terror attacks against unspecified targets utilizing aircraft, Poland’s prime minister said. “I will not go into details, I can only confirm the validity of fears that Russia was planning acts of air terror, not only against Poland but against airlines around the world,”…
Poland’s prime minister appeared on Wednesday to confirm the conclusions of western intelligence officials who had warned of a Russian plot to blow up cargo aircraft over western countries. “I can only confirm that Russia planned acts of air terror, not just against Poland but against airlines across the globe,” the prime minister, Donald Tusk,…
Russia will demand Ukraine drastically cut back military ties with the NATO alliance and become a neutral state with a limited army in any talks with incoming US President Donald Trump, according to people familiar with the matter. Increasingly confident he has the advantage on the battlefield in Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin is determined…