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A flag with a portrait of Vladimir Putin waves over a crowd commemorating Russia's 3-year-old annexation of the Crimea in Ukraine -- a component of Russia's attempts to maintain its historical influence.

Russian hackers were likely surprised by blowback from cyberattacks on U.S. elections, analysts say

August 21, 2019 at 10:39 p.m.

The Russian cyberattacks that targeted last year's U.S. presidential elections were as much about wanting to keep Hillary Clinton out of the White House as about proving to the world...

Sergey Kislyak is Russia's ambassador to the United States.

Who is Sergey Kislyak, and how did he become the hottest meeting ticket in Washington?

August 21, 2019 at 10:24 p.m.

His diplomatic career has encompassed the Cold War, the collapse of the Soviet Union and the inexorable-seeming rise of one Vladimir Putin. Now Sergey Kislyak, the Russian ambassador to the...

In this Oct. 5, 2016, photo provided by Russia Emergency Situations Ministry press service, the ministry servicemen wearing anti-chemical hazard suits unload firefighters' equipment at an undisclosed location in Russia.

Tension between U.S. and Russia brings war worries for some Muscovites

August 21, 2019 at 8:43 p.m.

Moscow resident Irina Karmanina thinks she and millions of Russians may be annihilated by a U.S. nuclear attack if the tension between Moscow and Washington escalates much more. The 54-year-old...

An image from video on the Russian Defense Ministry website shows a Russian Sukhoi Su-34 fighter bomber releasing its payload in Syria.

It’s been one year since Russia began bombing in Syria, and there may be no end in sight

August 21, 2019 at 8:20 p.m.

One year ago, Russian planes started dropping bombs on war-torn Syria. The airstrikes, which began Sept. 30, propped up Syrian President Bashar Assad's collapsing government, which controlled an ever-shrinking area...

Timur Bulatov's campaign against members of the LGBT community in St. Petersburg, Russia, has cost some of them their jobs.

Activists turn tolerant St. Petersburg into homophobic city

June 22, 2019 at 8:39 a.m.

Timur Bulatov calls himself a "homophobic wolf," and last summer he found his prey. Dr. Dmitry Isaev led a commission of psychiatrists in St. Petersburg that approved hundreds of sex-change...

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