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Angle down icon An icon in the shape of an angle pointing down. Russia's President Vladimir Putin and Russian central bank governor Elvira Nabiullina in a 2008 photo. At the time, Putin was Russia's Prime Minister and Nabiullina was the country's economy minister. Sergei Karpukhin/Reuters Russian central bank governor Elvira…

This report is the result of a joint investigation by 60 Minutes, The Insider, and Der SpiegelA lead U.S. military investigator examining reports of what has become known as Havana Syndrome told 60 Minutes he believes U.S. officials are being attacked by Russia and that the official threshold to prove it was set impossibly high.Greg Edgreen, a…

Top aide Serhiy Shefir was among those dismissed as well as three advisers and two presidential representatives.Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy dismissed a longtime aide and several advisers in a continuing reshuffle on Saturday, while Russia unleashed new attacks overnight. Zelenskyy dismissed top aide Serhiy Shefir from his post of…

One year ago on Friday, Ella Milman and Mikhail Gershkovich received a chilling phone call from the managing editor of The Wall Street Journal. Their son, Evan, a foreign correspondent for The Journal who was on a reporting assignment in Russia, had missed his daily security check-in.“We were hoping this was some kind of error, that everything…

KYIV, UKRAINE, March 28 – The Center for Countering Disinformation under the National Security and Defense Council said on March 28 that reported information about Russian military preparations for an offensive on Kharkiv is “part of a hostile fear propaganda campaign” and is not valid.“Russia does not have the resources to attack Kharkiv. All…

Angle down icon An icon in the shape of an angle pointing down. Ukrainian marines sail along the Dnipro river at the frontline near Kherson, Ukraine, Saturday, Oct. 14, 2023. AP Photo/Alex Babenko Russia's top general announced the formation of a new Dnipro River patrol force last week.Western intelligence says these troops will…

Sylvie Kauffmann, long-time foreign correspondent and former editor of Le Monde has written a magnificently critical and penetrating book, Les Aveuglés (The Blindsided), about how Germany and France got everything wrong about Putin and Russia for the last quarter of a century. Kauffmann has benefited from a vast experience covering…

24 March 2024Updated 48 minutes agoTo play this content, please enable JavaScript, or try a different browserVideo caption, Watch: Russia attack suspects dragged into courtroomRussia has charged four men it says attacked a Moscow concert hall and killed at least 137 people.Three were marched blindfolded into a Moscow court while the fourth was…

12:51 p.m. ET, March 23, 2024 Russian state media publishes purported confession of one alleged attacker at…

The EU’s foreign ministers are expected to approve suspending the bloc’s visa facilitation agreement with Moscow next week, as Russian rocket and artillery strikes hit areas across the Dnieper River from the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant.The EU move, aimed at reducing the number of visas issued to Russian nationals after pressure from eastern…