Russia

Read recent news stories and current events about Russia on Newser.com

Stories 41 - 60 | << Prev   Next >>

North Korea Severing Routes to the South

Roads and rails leading to 'principal enemy' to be cut off, army says

(Newser) - After promising to remove all mention of reunification with South Korea from its constitution, North Korea says it's eliminating all road and rail connections between the two enemy nations. Roads and railways connecting the countries will be cut off beginning Wednesday, the General Staff of the Korean People's...

Intelligence Agencies: Efforts to Influence Elections Go Lower

Foreign adversaries are targeting congressional, state legislative contests, officials say

(Newser) - It's not just the presidential election: Foreign governments are targeting House and Senate races around the country in their effort to meddle with American democracy this election year, intelligence officials warned Monday. Russia, China, and Cuba have all launched influence operations designed to help or hurt candidates in specific...

Russia Convicts 72-Year-Old American Over Ukraine War

Stephen Hubbard gets nearly 7 years in prison after Russia accused him of fighting for Ukraine

(Newser) - In April 2022, two months after the war in Ukraine began, Russian forces detained US citizen Stephen Hubbard. Now, the 72-year-old has heard his fate, per a Monday sentencing hearing in Moscow behind closed doors: six years and 10 months behind bars, per the AP . Hubbard, originally from Michigan, had...

Bot Army That Changed Online Poker Now Hopes to Save It
Bots Threaten the Future
of Online Poker
longform
Oct 6, 2024 9:32 AM CDT

Bots Threaten the Future of Online Poker

They're driving out ordinary players tired of losing money, reports Bloomberg

(Newser) - Casual poker players who go online these days have likely played against a bot, even if unknowingly. And if so, they've likely lost their money to said bot. The problem, writes Kit Chellel at Bloomberg , is that these "hobbyists" are getting tired of losing money and are abandoning...

Russia Is Throwing Serious Cash at Its Defense Budget

Vladimir Putin vows all goals in Ukraine 'will be achieved'

(Newser) - Russia will boost defense spending by 25% to record levels in 2025 with President Vladimir Putin vowing "all goals set" in the country's war with Ukraine "will be achieved." A draft budget posted on the parliament's website notes defense and security spending will account for...

'Startling' Video Shows Encounter Between Russian Jet, US F-16

Russian fighter jet swoops within feet of the US aircraft

(Newser) - Military officials have released new video of a startling encounter between a Russian fighter jet flying near Alaska and a US Air Force F-16 sent to intercept it, the AP reports. In the video released Monday, the Russian plane comes from behind the camera and swoops by the US jet,...

Norway Considers Fencing Russian Border

Sensors could detect people moving close to the line

(Newser) - Norway may put a fence along part or all of the 123-mile border it shares with Russia, a minister said, a move inspired by a similar project in its Nordic neighbor Finland. "A border fence is very interesting, not only because it can act as a deterrent but also...

At UN, Russia and China Warn About Ukraine

Sergey Lavrov brings up nuclear risk, while Wang Yi pushes against expanding the war

(Newser) - Russia's top diplomat warned Saturday against "trying to fight to victory with a nuclear power," delivering a UN General Assembly speech packed with condemnations of what Russia sees as Western machinations in Ukraine and elsewhere—including inside the United Nations itself. In his address, per the AP...

These NATO Nations Want to Shore Up Against Russia

Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and Poland seek EU funding to build massive border defense network

(Newser) - NATO members Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and Poland will seek European Union funding to build a network of bunkers, barriers, distribution lines, and military warehouses along their borders with Russia and Belarus, Estonia's officials said Saturday. The three Baltic countries initially announced the plan for a "Baltic Defense Line"...

Putin Says Russia Might Loosen Its Nuclear Doctrine

Announcement is seen as a threat against the West

(Newser) - In what multiple news outlets are painting as an apparent threat to use nuclear weapons against Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday announced proposed changes to Russia's nuclear doctrine. He highlighted one in particular, NBC News reports: "It is proposed that aggression against Russia by any non-nuclear...

Looks Like Launch of 'Satan II' Didn't Go So Well

Russia's Sarmat nuclear missile launch deemed a 'catastrophic failure,' based on launch site pics

(Newser) - Earlier this month, a launch silo at Russia's Plesetsk Cosmodrome looked unmarred and ready for its next mission. Now, satellite images show a whole new picture of the site, suggesting that a recent test of its RS-28 Sarmat intercontinental ballistic missile went awry, reports Reuters . In fact, arms experts...

2 Dead in 'Corporate Raid' at Russian Online Giant

Estranged husband of Russia's richest woman charged with murder after Moscow shootout

(Newser) - Tatyana Bakalchuk, Russia's richest woman, says her company was the target of a corporate raid on Wednesday—and she doesn't mean the Gordon Gekko kind. Two people were killed and seven others, including two police officers, were injured in a shootout at the Moscow offices of Wildberries, an...

As Russia Keeps Popping Up Near Alaska, US Sends in Troops

US deploys 130 soldiers to remote Aleutian island amid uptick in Russian planes, vessels

(Newser) - The US military has moved about 130 soldiers along with mobile rocket launchers to a desolate island in the Aleutian chain of western Alaska amid a recent increase in Russian military planes and vessels approaching American territory. Eight Russian military planes and four navy vessels, including two submarines, have come...

Doctors Without Borders Is Done in Russia

Moscow has yanked the medical aid group's status as an NGO

(Newser) - Doctors Without Borders said Tuesday it has closed its operations in Russia after 32 years, citing a Justice Ministry letter that said the medical aid group had been removed from a register of foreign nongovernmental organizations. The aid group, also known by its French name Médecins Sans Frontières...

Putin's New Order Will Make His Army 2nd-Largest on Earth

With 180K new service members, for a total of 1.5M, Russia's army will be 2nd to China's in size

(Newser) - China boasts the largest army on Earth, with the United States and India claiming the next-biggest forces. Vladimir Putin now wants in on that elite pecking order, ordering Russia's army on Monday to boosts its ranks by 180,000 active service members, bringing the total number to 1.5...

Russia Boots 6 UK Diplomats for Spying

Britain denies espionage accusations, calling them 'completely baseless'

(Newser) - Russia on Friday accused six British diplomats of spying and said it decided to expel them, an announcement that comes as tensions between Moscow and the West grow during an intensified push by Ukraine to loosen restrictions on using weapons provided by the US and Britain to strike Russia. Russia'...

Putin: Missile Deal Would Put West, Russia at War

Russian president warns Western bloc ahead of US-UK summit

(Newser) - Vladimir Putin on Thursday night threatened war between Russia and NATO if the West ends up providing missiles to Ukraine that are used to strike targets inside Russia. "This will mean that NATO countries, the United States, and European countries are fighting Russia," the Russian president said in...

Sons: Memo Proves Ethel Rosenberg 'Wasn't a Spy'

Document from what later became the NSA indicates she did not engage in husband's work

(Newser) - A top US government codebreaker who decrypted secret Soviet communications during the Cold War concluded that Ethel Rosenberg knew about her husband's activities "but that due to illness she did not engage in the work herself," according to a recently declassified memo that her sons say proves...

'I Looked at the Window and Saw a Ball of Fire'

Woman dies after Ukraine launches what's said to be largest drone strike on Moscow since war began

(Newser) - Ukraine has reportedly launched its biggest drone attack on the Russian capital since war erupted between the countries two and a half years ago. Russia's Defense Ministry said Tuesday that 144 Ukrainian drones were shot down around the country amid a wave of overnight attacks. "Half were in...

Popular Whale Rumored to Be &#39;Russian Spy&#39; Is Dead
We Now Know How the
'Russian Spy' Whale Died
UPDATED
Sep 10, 2024 9:35 AM CDT

We Now Know How the 'Russian Spy' Whale Died

Kind of—beluga known as Hvaldimir had a stick stuck in its mouth, per Norwegian police

(Newser) - On Monday, Norwegian police said they'd found zero evidence that supposed "Russian spy" whale Hvaldimir, found dead in Norway's waters last month, had been shot to death, as some animal rights activists had alleged, per the AP . Now, an answer on the marine creature's premature demise:...

Stories 41 - 60 | << Prev   Next >>