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News and analysis about all things Russia, including special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation, the war in Ukraine, and more.

The pipeline at the center of geopolitical drama

By Jen Kirby

The West has a few bargaining chips to stop Russia from invading Ukraine

By Ellen Ioanes

Wait, is Russia going to invade Ukraine?

By Jen Kirby

The space debris problem is getting dangerous

By Rebecca Heilweil

Apple shut down a voting app in Russia. That should worry everyone.

By Rebecca Heilweil

Can Biden do anything to stop ransomware attacks?

By Jen Kirby

Biden’s big Putin bet

By Alex Ward

The Putin summit may backfire on Biden

By Alex Ward

Reports of possible “Havana syndrome” attacks are now documented in the US

By Gabby Birenbaum

Alexei Navalny, the Russian dissident challenging Putin, explained

By Alex Ward

Biden makes good on his promise to punish Russia for the massive SolarWinds hack

By Sara Morrison

Will Biden’s Russia sanctions actually stop Putin?

By Alex Ward

US to sanction Russian officials over the attempted murder of Alexei Navalny

By Alex Ward

How will Biden handle China and Russia? Look at his calls with Xi and Putin.

By Alex Ward

Myanmar and Russia show the limits of Biden’s pro-democracy agenda

By Alex Ward

Alexei Navalny is going to prison. Can his movement to depose Vladimir Putin survive?

By Alex Ward

Biden had his first call with Putin. He said everything Trump wouldn’t.

By Alex Ward

The last US-Russia nuclear arms deal is about to expire. Biden wants to extend it.

By Alex Ward

5 months after being poisoned, top Putin critic Alexei Navalny detained upon Moscow return

By Alex Ward

President Trump is considering pardoning himself. I asked 15 experts if that's legal.

By Sean Illing

The Russian roots of our misinformation problem

By Sean Illing

Top chemical weapons watchdog group confirms Alexei Navalny was poisoned with a nerve agent

By Alex Ward

Did America’s top spy release Russian disinformation to help Trump?

By Alex Ward

QAnon, the scarily popular pro-Trump conspiracy theory, explained

By Jane Coaston

“The end of arms control as we know it”

By Alex Ward

How Trump’s China obsession could derail nuclear arms control, in one tweet

By Alex Ward

Why are Russian coronavirus doctors mysteriously falling out of windows?

By Alex Ward

Russia’s coronavirus outbreak is getting bad. Putin says the worst is yet to come.

By Alex Ward

Russia’s growing coronavirus outbreak and its challenge to Vladimir Putin, explained

By Alex Ward

Russia’s Vladimir Putin just got one step closer to being president for life

By Jen Kirby

The Saudi Arabia-Russia oil war, explained

By Alex Ward

Facebook and Twitter are struggling to get coronavirus disinformation details from the government

By Rebecca Heilweil and Shirin Ghaffary

The reports about Russian meddling in the 2020 election, and Trump’s response, explained

By Cameron Peters
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Why this Russian gas company sponsors soccer teams

By Mac Schneider

The Russian government’s dramatic shake-up, briefly explained

By Jen Kirby

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All of Robert Mueller’s indictments and plea deals in the Russia investigation

By Andrew Prokop

Trump gave Russia’s top envoy a White House meeting. He still hasn’t done that for Ukraine.

By Alex Ward

The White House’s top Ukraine official confirms there was a quid pro quo

By Alex Ward

Trump may soon ban Russian observation flights over US military bases. That’s a bad thing.

By Alex Ward

A GOP-led Senate intel committee report states the obvious: Russia favored Trump in 2016

By Alex Ward

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