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Key chairmen met with the House general counsel in a bid to put any subpoena fight on firm legal ground.

The trial comes amid escalating cyber war rhetoric between Russia and the West

The 5P-42 Filin has been fitted to two Russian ships patrolling the Arctic Ocean. The futuristic device fires a dazzling strobe-like beam that visually impairs enemies so they miss their targets.

A measure to overturn a Treasury Department decision lifting sanctions on a Russian oligarch received an overwhelming bipartisan vote.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said Sunday he plans to force a vote this week to block the Treasury Department from lifting sanctions on three Russian companies.

Russia's only orbiting space radio telescope, Spektr-R (RadioAstron), has stopped responding to the spacecraft's control staff, the BBC reported Saturday, though Astro Space Centre chief Nikolai Kardashev told the BBC that it is still transmitting

Faces up to 20 years in prison

My familiarity with Russian politics admittedly begins and ends with the 1997 animated film Anastasia, so I was not super shocked by this clip of a member of the Russian Parliament wishing her constituents a happy new year while swigging champagne atop a...

An American has been arrested in Moscow on suspicion of spying, according to Russian officials.

Military media in Moscow say the chilling schemes could wipe out western Europe, Britain and Washington DC but experts in Russia dismissed claims as 'nonsense'

RUSSIA has sent supersonic bombers capable of carrying nuclear missiles to one of Venezuela's islands in the Caribbean Sea, according to Russian newspaper Nezavisimaya Gazeta. This follows news earlier in the month that the former-Soviet state was pla

Russian President Vladimir Putin announced that his country has developed a new kind of hypersonic, nuclear-capable missile and would deploy it in 2019. What did Putin say? Addressing his government on Wednesday, Putin announced that his military had succ

Speaking at his annual media press conference, Putin was asked by one journalist to assess the threat of nuclear war or a third world war.

Russia's Ministry of Defense announced Monday that it would be moving troops and their families into newly built barracks on two islands claimed by Japan. The decision threatens already tense relations with Tokyo over the disputed archipelago, ahead o

Putin is a huge Solzhenitsyn fan, and made this very clear while the writer was alive by publicly meeting him and praising him, (pictures below), and attending his funeral. Significantly in his speech, Putin criticized the "totalitarian system which b

Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Saturday the Kremlin should play a leading role in Russian rap music and in youth culture, rather than trying to shut it down.'

Destabilizing action

Ukraine has released what it says is the exact location near Crimea where its vessels were fired on and seized by Russia over the weekend, showing that they were in international waters

Ukraine is responsible for instigating a dispute with Russia in which the federation seized several Ukrainian ships in the Black Sea, Russian President Vladimir Putin said Wednesday.

"They have been violating it for many years," Trump said of the Kremlin's cooperation with the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty.