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Joshua Roberts / Reuters The Road to Radicalism in Charlottesville
Violent extremism—whether in jihadist or white supremacist form—is often driven by the same processes.
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Reuters / Pool The Russians Are Glad Trump Detests the New Sanctions
“Sometimes, it seems to me that the biggest sanctions aren’t aimed at us, but at Trump.”
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Alexander Zemlianichenko / Reuters / Pool Vladimir Putin to America: You've Let Me Down
In expelling American diplomatic staff, the Russian president was trying to sound like the one adult in the room, even as he actively makes the situation worse.
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Maxim Shemetov / Reuters Why Does the Kremlin Care So Much About the Magnitsky Act?
What Russian officials mean when they talk about “adoptions”
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Joshua Roberts / Reuters What Jared Kushner's Statement Reveals About Russian Methods
There were numerous attempts to establish contact with the campaign and the transition team.
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Sergei Karpukhin / Reuters What It Means to Have Russian Spies as Clients
The lawyer who met with Donald Trump Jr. once represented the FSB. But that story is less about espionage than about money.
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Reuters The Russian Attorney at the Center of the Trump Jr. Scandal
Who is Natalia Veselnitskaya, and what does she want?
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Alexander Zemlianichenko / Reuters What the Heck Is a Russian 'Crown Prosecutor'?
Technically, there’s no such position. But the man who holds the office’s nearest equivalent in Russia is a Putin loyalist of long standing.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters It Took Two to Make Russian Meddling Effective
A Washington Post report on 2016 election interference raises the question: What could Obama have done differently?
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters Why Did Jeff Sessions Really Meet With Sergey Kislyak?
The attorney general says he was acting as a senator, but a review of his activities that summer shows ambassadors seeking him out as a Trump surrogate.
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Trump Scandals Are Good for Putin
Julia Ioffe argues that the one thing Putin wants from a Trump White House is chaos.
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Carlos Barria / Reuters Did the Russians Dupe Trump?
Putin has long used the pretext of counterterrorism cooperation to get what he wants from the West. It just paid off again.
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Reuters The Russians Troll Trump
“He is acting in accordance with his competence, in accordance with his law and constitution. What about us? Why us?”
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What Happens to the FBI's Russia Investigation Now?
One way to derail an inquiry is to deprive it of resources.
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Alexander Zemlianichenko / Reuters Putin's Disappointing Phone Call With Trump
Reports of a planned meeting were less than met the eye.
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Sergei Karpukhin / Reuters How the Syria Strike Flipped the U.S.-Russia Power Dynamic
If Moscow had grown accustomed to being the unpredictable partner in the relationship, it will have to make adjustments.
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Alexei Druzhinin/ RIA Novosti / Kremlin / Reuters In Syria, Russia Falls Victim to Its Own Success
Moscow’s rogue client has destroyed the country’s ability to present itself as an indispensable arbiter in the conflict.
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Grigory Duko / Reuters How Russians Got Used to Terrorism
If there’s too much of it, it stops being terrifying.
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Yuri Maltsev / Reuters What Russia's Latest Protests Mean for Putin
After the largest demonstrations in years erupted across the country on Sunday, the Kremlin is fighting back.
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Carlo Allegri / Reuters What Exactly Did Paul Manafort Do Wrong?
If the lobbyist’s work did indeed “greatly benefit the Putin Government,” the contract wouldn’t be especially out of the ordinary for an American lobbyist—or for Russia.
