Topline President Joe Biden on Thursday warned the world could face “Armageddon” if Russian leader Vladimir Putin makes good on threats to use nuclear weapons in Ukraine, an unusually blunt statement ...
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Did Putin Sabotage His Own Pipeline? Perhaps He’s Not The Only Irrational Political Leader
Nord stream 1 and 2 pipeline 3D rendering getty Blasts were heard at the Nord Stream 1 pipeline last week, and damage to the pipeline itself was detected underwater shortly thereafter. Russian sources...
Putin Finalizes Annexation As Ukraine Forces Russia Into Retreat On Southern Front Line
Topline Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday signed legislation finalizing Moscow’s illegal annexation of four Ukrainian regions, pushing forward despite not controlling any of the four provi...
Russians Use Drastic Measures To Avoid Putin’s Military Draft—Including Self-Mutilation
Topline Russians have resorted to drastic measures to avoid being drafted to fight in Ukraine, a sign of desperation as President Vladimir Putin’s attempts to revive the flagging invasion pushes poten...
Sunday, October 2. Russia’s War On Ukraine: News And Information
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy leads a meeting of the National Security and Defense Council … [+] in Kyiv, Ukraine, Friday, Sept. 30, 2022. Ukrainian Presidential Press Office via AP Uk...
A Day After Putin Announces Annexation, Troops Forced Out Of Lyman
Topline Russia said Saturday it was retreating from the eastern Ukrainian city of Lyman, a day after Russian President Vladimir Putin decreed the city would be brought under Russian control through a ...
Putin Claims Four Ukrainian Regions As Russian In Illegal Annexation
Topline Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree Friday to illegally annex four occupied Ukrainian provinces, at an ceremony in Moscow, despite widespread international condemnation of the mov...
Russia Will Annex Occupied Ukrainian Territories On Friday, Kremlin Says—Following ‘Sham’ Referendums
Topline Russian President Vladimir Putin will move to annex four Ukrainian provinces—some of which are not under complete Russian control—by signing a decree Friday afternoon, the Kremlin announced on...
Here’s What Would Happen If Putin Ordered A Nuclear Strike In Ukraine
Topline Russian President Vladimir Putin is preparing to annex swathes of occupied Ukrainian territory and vowed to defend Russian territory by any means necessary last Wednesday, including using nucl...
Economy flights from Moscow to Dubai hitting $5,000 as Russians flee
The airline industry has been hamstrung by a perfect storm of challenges over recent weeks, from labor shortages and supply disruptions to rising fuel prices. Sopa Images | Lightrocket | Getty Images ...
Putin Gives Former NSA Contractor Edward Snowden Russian Citizenship
Topline Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday signed a decree granting Russian citizenship to Edward Snowden, a former security consultant who fled the U.S. after leaking highly classified inform...
Russian Neighbors—Now Including Finland—Close Borders To Those Fleeing Putin’s Draft
Topline The many desperately leaving Russia in response to President Vladimir Putin’s move to start using conscriptions for the war in Ukraine will face dwindling options on where to go, as key ...
Biden And Putin Play Chicken With Energy
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – JUNE 16: US president Joe Biden (L) and Russia’s President Vladimir Putin meet … [+] at the start of the U.S.-Russia summit at Villa La Grange on June 16, 2021 ...
India And China Finally Voicing Concerns Over Russia’s Actions In Ukraine
Topline India and China raised concerns about the impact of Russia’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine—emphasizing the violation of international law and territorial integrity—at a meeting of the UN Securit...
Russia’s Invasion Of Ukraine Is No Reason To Increase The Pentagon Budget
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s threat to use nuclear weapons if his nation’s “territorial integrity” is threatened has been widely denounced, and rightly so. But paradoxically, it is a sign of Rus...
Zelensky Sits Down With Forbes
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky sat down with Randall Lane, chief content officer for Forbes, Thursday afternoon at the 2022 Forbes Philanthropy Summit, addressing his country’s seven-month-lon...
North Korea Denies Selling Weapons To Moscow As Russia’s Isolation Grows
Topline North Korea on Thursday denied supplying Russia with weapons or ammunition for use in Ukraine, dismissing U.S. intelligence reports as “reckless” rumors designed to damage the nation’s image a...
Airline tickets could become even more expensive, aviation execs warn
Air tickets may become more expensive — thanks to the lack of refining capacity and the financial state of airlines, said William Walsh, the director-general of the International Air Transport Associa...
Wednesday, September 21. Russia’s War On Ukraine: Daily News And Information
A local resident stands near a rocket fragment near her house in the recently retaken Kupiansk in … [+] the Kharkiv region, Ukraine, Wednesday, Sept. 21, 2022. (AP Photo/Kostiantyn Liberov) Copy...
Russia Is About To Draft 300,000 New Troops. It Won’t Be Able To Train Them.
Russian troops during a 2015 exercise. Russian defense ministry photo Russia will mobilize 300,000 men in an effort to make good its losses in Ukraine and expand the army, President Vladimir Putin ann...
1,200 Protesters Detained Across Russia After Putin’s Partial Military Draft, Human Rights Group Says
Topline More than 1,200 protesters were arrested in 38 cities across Russia on Wednesday, according to independent Russian human rights organization OVD-Info, as people took to the streets to protest ...
Russia Attempting To ‘Extinguish’ Ukrainians’ Right To Live
Topline Russia is attempting to “extinguish” Ukrainians’ “right to exist,” President Joe Biden said in a speech at the United Nations General Assembly in which he took aim at Russian President Vladimi...
Putin Just Doubled Down On His Nuclear Threat: What That Means
After an as-yet unexplained delay, Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday declared “partial mobilization” of his country’s army reserves, a move intended to replenish the invading army which ha...
General Mills, Stitch Fix, Beyond Meat and others
Check out the companies making headlines before the bell: General Mills (GIS) – General Mills shares gained 1.8% in the premarket after the food producer reported a better-than-expected quarterly prof...
Putin Announces ‘Partial Mobilization’ And Backs Referendums In Russian Occupied Territories
Topline Russian President Vladimir Putin declared “partial mobilization” allowing for the conscription of military reservists, in a pre-recorded televised speech on Wednesday morning, indicating an es...
Russia Mulls Mass Mobilization. It Won’t Save Its Army In Ukraine.
Russian prisoners in Ukraine. Via social media Tallying devastating losses and rapid Ukrainian gains more than 200 days into its wider war on Ukraine, the Kremlin on Tuesday hinted it could take a ste...
What Does A Weakened Russia Mean?
PEREVEVALNE, UKRAINE – MARCH 06: Russian paramilitaries stand guard outside of a Ukrainian military … [+] base in the town of Perevevalne near the Crimean city of Simferopol on March 6, 20...
Putin Warns He’ll Freeze Energy Supplies To The West If Price Caps Are Imposed
Topline Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday doubled down on threats to cut off all energy supplies to Western countries if they impose price caps on its oil and gas exports, ratcheting tensi...
Gorbachev And The Tragedy Of Russia
The death of Mikhail Gorbachev poignantly reminds us of the path Russia didn’t take after the fall of Soviet communism. Gorbachev’s vision was the utter antithesis of Vladimir Putin’s. The Soviet Unio...
India PM Modi Tells Putin Now Is ‘Not An Era’ For War In First Public Comments Against Russian Invasion
Topline Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi reportedly told Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday that “now is not an era of war,” marking the first public criticism of Putin’s ...