Russia

Russian President Vladimir Putin’s announcement that his country is the first to approve a coronavirus vaccine hasn’t provoked the awe and wonder of the Soviet Union’s launch of the first satellite into orbit in 1957

Russia says it has as the first vaccine to treat COVID-19. Jay Wolfson of the University of South Florida says not so fast.

Russian President Vladimir Putin announced the approval of a COVID-19 vaccine on Tuesday. The long-term effects and safety of this possible vaccine remain unclear and some who have been given it have experienced fever.

U.S. intelligence officials believe that Russia is using a variety of measures to denigrate Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden ahead of the November election and that individuals linked to the Kremlin are boosting President Donald Trump’s reelection bid

The State Department says Russia is using social media, state-funded media and a loose network of proxy websites to amplify conspiracy theories and misinformation, most recently around the coronavirus.

The European Union has imposed its first-ever sanctions over cyberattacks, naming six individuals and three organizations including Russia’s military intelligence agency

A new congressional report says Russian oligarchs are skirting U.S. sanctions through shady high-end art deals

The U.S. government has identified two suspected Russian military intelligence operatives who it believes are helping direct the spread of disinformation through websites that have published extensively on the coronavirus pandemic, American politics and international affairs.

The Trump administration’s election security czar issued a rare statement describing foreign efforts to interfere in the 2020 election Friday. Democrats labeled it misleading, saying it failed to convey the scope of Russia’s interference and how its messaging matches that of President Donald Trump. With just over 100 days until the November election, the statement came from Bill Evanina, a career FBI...

Russian scientists are excavating a mammoth skeleton from a Siberian lake that was discovered by a fisherman.

The United States and Britain are accusing Russia of threatening the peaceful use of outer space by launching a projectile from a satellite

A long-awaited report on Russian meddling in British politics criticized the U.K. government for failing to investigate whether Moscow interfered in the 2016 Brexit referendum, with the document’s authors describing the lack of curiosity about this threat to democracy as a major failure at the heart of power

Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden says he is putting Russia and other foreign governments “on notice” that he will act aggressively as president to counter any interference in U.S. elections

Citing briefings he has received on the issue, former Vice President Joe Biden said Friday that Russia is again working to interfere in a U.S. election and expressed concern about foreign efforts to sow doubt about the outcome, NBC News reports. “We know from before and I guarantee you I know now because now I get briefings again,” the...

Western governments are accusing hackers believed to be part of the Russian intelligence services of trying to steal information about a coronavirus vaccine

A federal judge is demanding more information about President Donald Trump’s decision to commute the prison sentence of longtime ally Roger Stone

A growing chorus of American officials have said in recent days that the intelligence suggesting Russians paid “bounties” to induce the Taliban to kill American service members in Afghanistan is less than conclusive.

Joe Biden on Wednesday slammed President Donald Trump as a “commander in chief who doesn’t command anything in the fight” against the coronavirus pandemic, also ripping him for “not doing a damn thing” in response to U.S. intelligence that Russia offered the Taliban bounties to kill Americans in Afghanistan.

Federal prosecutors say a West Virginia woman who had served in the Air Force planned to offer classified information to the Russian government.

The White House says President Donald Trump was never briefed on intelligence that Russia had put a bounty on U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan because there wasn’t corroborating evidence.