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Russia warns response to US sanctions on RT will make ‘everyone shudder’
3 months, 2 weeks ago

Russia warns response to US sanctions on RT will make ‘everyone shudder’

Al Jazeera  

Moscow claims new measures against the media network’s top editors are part of an ‘information campaign’ before US presidential vote. Russia has said it will take retaliatory measures after the United States announced sanctions against its state-funded media network RT, threatening they will make “everyone shudder”. Washington’s actions against state broadcaster RT’s editor-in-chief Margarita Simonyan and her deputy Elizaveta Brodskaia …

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Russians scoff at Western fears of Ukraine invasion
2 years, 10 months ago

Russians scoff at Western fears of Ukraine invasion

NPR  

Russians scoff at Western fears of Ukraine invasion Enlarge this image toggle caption Alexander Zemlianichenko/AP Alexander Zemlianichenko/AP While the U.S. warns that Russia could invade Ukraine any day, the drumbeat of war is all but unheard in Moscow, where pundits and ordinary people alike don't expect President Vladimir Putin to launch an attack on its ex-Soviet neighbor. Russian Foreign Ministry …

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Russia orders US diplomats to leave as Ukraine tensions escalate
3 years ago

Russia orders US diplomats to leave as Ukraine tensions escalate

Al Jazeera  

Diplomatic row between Moscow and Washington deepens as US-headed NATO alliance holds talks on Ukraine. Russian foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Wednesday that US embassy staff who have been in Moscow for more than three years were being ordered to fly home by January 31, an apparently retaliatory move. Russia’s RIA news agency cited Zakharova as saying that …

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Biden imposes new sanctions on Russia in response to election interference and cyber hacks
3 years, 8 months ago

Biden imposes new sanctions on Russia in response to election interference and cyber hacks

CNN  

Washington CNN — The Biden administration targeted Russia with sweeping sanctions and diplomatic expulsions Thursday, punishing Moscow for its interference in the 2020 US election, its SolarWinds cyberattack and its ongoing occupation and “severe human rights abuses” in Crimea. Thursday’s sanctions come a day after Secretary of State Antony Blinken, speaking for the US and its NATO allies, expressed deep …

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Top US spies brief Congress on Russia-Taliban intelligence
4 years, 5 months ago

Top US spies brief Congress on Russia-Taliban intelligence

Al Jazeera  

CIA Director Gina Haspel and National Security Agency Director Paul Nakasone met with congressional leaders at the United States Capitol on Thursday to share US intelligence suggesting Russia offered the Taliban bounties to kill US troops in Afghanistan. Warmer relations Pelosi said Congress should now impose financial sanctions on Russia’s intelligence and military sectors – penalties that were withheld at …

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