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Russia detains U.S. citizen working for 'Wall Street Journal' Moscow bureau
Friday, March 31, 2023
An American journalist has been arrested in Russia and accused of espionage. It's the first time an American correspondent has been accused of spying since since the Cold War.
After a Russian girl drew an antiwar poster, her dad faces defamation charges
Tuesday, March 28, 2023
In a small Russian town, a father and daughter have been separated by the state after she drew an antiwar poster in school. He was convicted of defaming the military; she's now in an orphanage.
The leaders of China and Russia have finished talks. Here are some takeaways
Wednesday, March 22, 2023
China's Xi Jinping says he has a peace plan for Ukraine and wants to mediate an end to the war. Ukraine and its neighbors are skeptical.
For Russia and China, ties with the West are strained
Tuesday, March 21, 2023
China's leader Xi Jinping is in Moscow this week on a highly watched state visit.
West watches Xi-Putin meetings to see what they might mean for the war in Ukraine
Tuesday, March 21, 2023
China's president Xi Jinping and Russia's president Vladimir Putin begin their second day of a state visit in Moscow. Center stage is what this may — or may not mean — for the war in Ukraine.
China's President Xi Jinping is in Moscow for a 3-day state visit with Russia's Putin
Monday, March 20, 2023
The meeting between Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin is expected to focus heavily on the war in Ukraine, and comes after a surprise weekend trip by Putin into Ukrainian territory occupied by Russia.
Putin has made a surprise visit to the occupied city of Mariupol in Ukraine
Sunday, March 19, 2023
Russian President Vladimir Putin has made a surprise visit to Russian-occupied Mariupol in Ukraine. He also visited Crimea, which was annexed by Russia in 2014.
The International Criminal Court issues an arrest warrant for Putin
Friday, March 17, 2023
The ICC has issued warrants for the Russian president and his children's rights commissioner for alleged war crimes involving accusations that Russia has forcibly taken Ukrainian children.
Russia awards pilots involved in confrontation with a U.S. drone over Black Sea
Friday, March 17, 2023
The United States accused Russia of an "unsafe" and "unprofessional" intercept of its MQ-9 Reaper surveillance drone that forced it to be brought down over the Black Sea this week
China's leader Xi Jinping will meet with Russia's Vladimir Putin in Moscow next week
Friday, March 17, 2023
Moscow said the long-anticipated visit is coming at the invitation of President Vladimir Putin. The talks are expected to focus on the war in Ukraine, though it wasn't mentioned explicitly.
Despite downed drone, U.S. says it will keep flying near Ukraine
Tuesday, March 14, 2023
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin says the U.S. will continue flying 'wherever international law allows.' This comes a day after Russia downed a U.S. drone in the Black Sea.
Ukraine's government says it wasn't involved in the attacks on Nord Stream pipelines
Wednesday, March 08, 2023
An adviser to Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says the reports are based on "anonymous conjecture but not real facts." The attacks, he said, are "devoid of tactical sense."
Yevgeny Prigozhin, 'Putin's Chef,' has emerged from the shadows with his Wagner Group
Monday, March 06, 2023
Yevgeny Prigozhin, known as "Putin's Chef" because of his company's origins in the catering business, now fields a mercenary army of 50,000. Its role in Ukraine is central to Russia's war effort.
An American walked her pet cow in Moscow's Red Square. Spoiler alert: Trouble ensued
Saturday, March 04, 2023
Animal rights activist Alicia Day says she routinely walks her farm animals in public to encourage people to think twice about eating meat. Why she chose to do so in the center of Moscow isn't clear.
Belarus Nobel Peace Prize laureate sentenced to 10 years in prison
Friday, March 03, 2023
Ales Bialiatski was one of the leaders of Belarus' pro-democracy movement, inspiring protests against what activists maintained were fraudulent presidential elections in 2020.
U.S. and Russia's top diplomats meet at G-20 summit
Thursday, March 02, 2023
The brief talks marked the first face-to-face meeting between Secretary of State Antony Blinken and his Russian counterpart, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, since Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
U.S. and Russia's top diplomats meet for the first time since the Ukraine war began
Thursday, March 02, 2023
Relations between the two countries have collapsed over the Ukraine war, with the U.S. slapping thousands of sanctions on Russia, and militarily, economically and diplomatically supporting Ukraine.
How life in Russia has changed since its invasion of Ukraine
Thursday, February 23, 2023
One year after Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, life in Russia has changed profoundly. It is a place of lost freedoms, historical grievances, pride and despair.
Biden and Putin both gave speeches for the anniversary of Russian invasion
Tuesday, February 21, 2023
President Biden spoke in Warsaw ahead of the anniversary of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, and a day after his Kyiv visit. Meanwhile, President Vladimir Putin addressed the Russian nation in Moscow.
Putin addresses his nation as Russia's invasion of Ukraine nears the 1-year mark
Tuesday, February 21, 2023
Russian President Putin addresses his nation three days before the anniversary of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, and the day after President Biden's unannounced visit to Ukraine's capital Kyiv.